Ms.+Gleadall's+Calendar+Area

Our school provided all the K teachers with this wonderful calendar. It's pretty self explanatory. The white scroll of paper is used for tally marks up to the 100th day of school. Then when we learn number patterns, we can go through and show how to count by 5s. This is where we show the days of school in money. *We also write it out in numeral form on the whiteboard above the yellow pocket chart. Then we show place value using the links below. We go over the 100s chart and talk about each coin every day before math. I wrote out the ordinal numbers 1st thru the 12th to place next to each month. So when we are writing the date in our morning message, we can practice using the ordinal numbers and helps them understand that (for example) "May is the 5th month of the year." We also graph the weather daily, talk about which is more/less, discuss the weather and figure out what season we are in. A view of my whole calendar area. (School year 2010-2011)