Here are a couple of different ways I’ve taught my kindergartners and first graders the months of the year, the days of the week, and the four seasons.
This time of year you can get super cheap calendars from the dollar stores or even very cool ones for 75% off at most stores because they’re clearing them out. It’s a great time to get one.
I put the calendar in with the rest of their school books and when we do our phonics and numbers we pull out the calendar and talk about what day it is. We start by flipping to the back of the calendar and saying the months of the year. All of them. Then we flip to the current month and say the days of the week as we point to them. I tell them what the date is and they find that number if they can. I count the numbers out for them if they can’t. I have them check off the days up to and including the day we’re on. We also mark important days so that they can begin to see the concept of time. Here is my 5 year old daughter’s calendar opened to one of our busy months last year. It was very important to her to mark down the days to Daddy’s return from Chicago.
Here’s how we reinforced the months, seasons, and special holidays with our then first grader last year. I pulled this lapbook back out just the other day to review with him and got him to explain what he had worked on last year.
This particular lapbook took months to finish. We just did a little a day. Sometimes only working on it once or twice a week.
I’ll probably have my girl do one of these lapbooks toward the end of this school year.
How do you teach these fun things?
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