Celebrating Memorial Day and Looking Ahead In honor of Memorial Day, we'll be off on Monday, May 27, and back with our regular daily content on May 28. Though we always suspend our traditional lesson plans for the summer at the end of May, here are some features we'll publish over the next three weeks that we hope you'll find useful and interesting instead: May 28 to June 14: Poetry Contest Winners 971 students entered our contest, and we've finally chosen our winners. We'll publish one poem a day for 12 days. May 30: Reading Club Favorites Students can post a comment on the topic of "digital distraction" by the evening of May 28. We'll announce our favorites on Thursday, May 30. June 3 to June 7: Common Core Reflections Week We've been experimenting with the Common Core Standards all year, and we suspect you have, too. We'll be posting our thoughts and inviting you to weigh in with yours. June 10 to June 13: Year-End Roundups Each June, we create lists of all the lesson plans and Student Opinion questions we've published that school year, so teachers can find them all in one handy place. Look for several subject-area-specific collections, like this one, this one and this one from last June. June 14: The Summer Reading Contest Begins If you haven't invited - or assigned - your students to take part in the contest, please do. For now, though, Happy Memorial Day, and thank you for another wonderful school year.