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Calendar Time
By Kristal

I teach 2nd grade and here are the things I do with my class during our calendar time: days of the week, months of the year, long date and short date, what day comes before/after, what was the date yesterday/what will it
be tomorrow, calendar problem of the day (ie If I am going on a trip and I leave May 1 and return the following Tuesday, what day/date will I return?) We also do temperature, a graph of the weather, number of days we've been at school/number of days left, a pattern of the day, a clock activity, tally marks, odd and even numbers. I don't do every activity every day. I also start off

slow and add activities throughout the year. Somethings I have quit doing now that we are so late in the school year because my kids know it so well (days of the week, months, etc.) I have recently started doing measurements using learning links and the kids love it. I have a star of the day who gets to help me out. I recently had my students write what the best part of the day was for them. Most of them wrote about our calendar time. Hope this helps!