The Calendar and Beyond: Using Daily Calendar Time to Help Students Learn and Review Key Skills

The Calendar and Beyond offers innovative ideas for expanding one of your most reliable and essential primary classroom teaching tools-the daily calendar. This book shows you how to customize a calendar program that takes students beyond a discussion about days of the week and allows you to teach and review key skills and concepts on a daily basis. Learn how to make over 30 interactive displays and implement hands-on activities that ecnourages students to observe patterns in their world; explore place value, graphing and telling time; decode and generate new words; recite poetry; and more.