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Calendar bulletin boards...
By Jessica

We had this problem, too. I decided to take advantage of this calendar and turn it into a learning tool. Every month, I have my resource room students help me. We put up a colored background and a boarder...then they go to
work decorating it with as many items they can the represent that month. Then, I incorporated weather into the calendar. We made a weather chart for one of my more lower functioning students. Each day he dresses the weather bear according to the weather outside which has helped him realize how to dress for the weather. We also have a chart that says "Today is", "Tommorrow will be" and

Yesterday Was" which he really likes to change each day. This has really helped him to figure out the days of the week. For my more higher functioning students, I create a sheet for them that cooresponds to each month. It has a list of questions about the calendar (ex: If today is March 15 and Mary made an appointment on March 26 to meet with the Leprachuans about next years St. Patrick Day celebration, how many days is it until she has this meeting? Mary also needs to know what day of the week will St. Patrick's Day fall on next year. Can you help her find which day of the week it is? and so on) The kids really enjoy the calendar work and I no longer have a calendar that is just wasting space!