The Monthly Calendar-Better Late Than Never!

The "feels like 34" forecast of today made it the perfect day to make our monthly calendar-that and the fact that it was 3 days overdue. The littlest one picked out her favorite "summer colours" while the not-so-littlest one grouped them into groups of 2, 4 and 8 when she wasn't looking. Being a science teacher with a very strong math background, when I see him doing things like that it makes me think that sometimes I may overdo the "math is in everything" mantra, although I must admit it always makes me smile!

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The reason I like doing the calendar every month is for the sheer amount of teacher opportunities it presents. Not only does it reinforce the days of the week and months of the year but they also get to practice printing all the words and letters (JK-Grade 1 Language and Math Curriculum). Not to have a single day without some sort of numeracy skills, today we had the littlest one practicing counting by 2's writing the even days in July and the not-so-littlest one counting by 2's writing the odd days. I will admit that it takes a good hour and that when we started it took more like two and a half, but it was the dead of winter so it became a great way to pass the time! We finished it all off by drawing all the plants we see in July (SK Science and Technology Curriculum)

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