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It’s Somebody’s Birthday!
Displaystudents’birthdays onthe
chart. Students will anxiously await
their birthday monthsto see acard
markingtheirspecial day! Other stu-
dents can make birthday cardsfor
their peers in their freetime.
One Hundred!
Celebrate the one hundredth day of
theschool year! Mark and count each
dayas it passes.This will help your
students developnumber sense,rein-
force counting skills, and expand
organization bykeeping trackof the
onehundred days!
When?
Introduce the concepts ofyesterday,
today, and tomorrow, to reinforce
students’awareness of scheduled
events.Talk about the day after
tomorrow and the day beforeyester-
day. Challenge students to solve
problems such as: Yesterday was
Tuesday,the day aftertomorrow is
Friday,whatday was the day before
yesterday?
Science:
Phases of the Moon
Discuss the creation of the
calendar and its correspondence
to the phases of the moon. Ask
your students to look at the moon
each night. Track its phases.
Challenge your students to
explain why the moon’s phases
do not match the days of the
months. Draw diagrams
demonstrating the orbiting paths
of the moon, sun, and the earth
and the time it takes to complete
each cycle. This will show
students why the calendar does
not match the phases of the moon.
Classroom Management
Keep track of your students’
daily behavior by putting stars on
the days when your students’
behavior is at its best. Challenge
students to make twenty stars on
each calendar. If your students
meet your challenge, reward
them with a celebration! Next
month, make your challenge
more difficult. Try for twenty-
two stars!
large see-through pocket. A
sample date on your calendar
may read: Wednesday, February
1, 1995. Encourage students to
practice writing full dates and
headings. This will help them
understand the patterns and
relationships on the monthly
calendar.
Holidays
Encourage students to develop
sequencing skills with holidays!
Learning the months, seasons,
weeks, and days is a difficult
task for younger students.
First, use holidays to describe
seasons, then move to months.
More advanced students can
grasp sequences with holiday
weeks.
Current Events
Your pocket chart can be used as
a cross-curricular center! Have
students bring in newspaper clip-
pings of world events or activi-
ties in the community. Insert the
clippings in the see-through
pockets. Students can research
interesting topics and write jour-
nal entries. Make connections to
your science, reading, math, or
social studies curriculum!
Counting Down
You can help students develop an
awareness of time durations.
Mark each day as it passes. Help
students develop an awareness of
time duration for specific peri-
ods. A special event may be two
weeks away. Mark off a two
week block and count down the
days until you reach the event.
Younger students will quickly
grasp this idea. It also helps you
reinforce counting skills!
New Ways to Say
UseyourMonthly Calendar Pocket
Chart to teach students anew lan-
guage! Startwiththe namesof the
months and days of the week.The
cards included with this chart arein
Englishand Spanish. Display the
Englishversion, then showstudents
theSpanish translations or vice versa.
Discussthe similarities in the lan-
guages and the words.Place a new
word ondisplay for each day ofthe
month!