If anyone out there would like to share tips and tricks with this group, please feel free. The great teaching tips I use have come from other teachers who have been there and back.
One thing that I do is have my students make our calendar pieces each month. We decide on the pattern that we'll create such as an ABAB pattern and then discuss pictures for the month. This month, for example, my students have decided on an ABCD pattern and it will be a turkey, Native American, Mayflower ship and a Pilgrim. They draw the picture, sound out how to spell the picture and then write their class number on the back. I then put them in our calendar container and pull a new student each day to put in the calendar piece. At the end of the month, I turn our calendar pieces along with our weather graph and poem into a class big book. Our calendar time is a big part of our day and the students look forward to changing our "calendar bears" clothes, graphing the weather and the several other activities we do for our calendar.
After the winter break, I'll add in a math calendar journal my students can do on their own as a math "must do". I've found great variations of this idea on other sites such as jmeacham.com. There are many teachers out there that use a type of this idea in their math program and my kinder bunnies have really enjoyed the challenge. The journal has a monthly calendar to fill in by the day, a poem for the month, graphing, and whatever else I can find that my students need to work on such as patterning, number sense, or number writing. I will begin to share samples of these ideas once I understand blogging.
Kinder Rocks
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