Just months, days, and year right? Well, for adults yes, but for a little one learning some of the basics it can be so much more.
Besides the basic calendar format here are a few of the other benefits of doing calendar time each day with your child. Letter exposure, numbers and counting, order of days of the week, months and years, patterns, songs to assist in learning and recall later on. These are just the obvious and a tip of the ice berg.
So how do you do calendar time and make it cover all of these items? You can just point to any old calendar and get these results, you need a child's calendar. You can make one very simply and inexpensively(tune in for tomorrows blog for how to) or you can purchase one at a local teacher supply or learning center.
After we have a morning song and go over a quick rundown of the day we have calendar time! We start out by assigning our 'men' for the day, we have all boys. We have a weather man and a calendar man, our weather chart is right above our calendar.
Now time for some learning songs, first up is
Next we sing the days of the week song, there are many out there, but here is a link to a couple different choices, 1st, 2nd. Make sure that you point to the days on the calendar.
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