Calendar routine first grade

Here are a few pictures of my calendar wall. I put a lot of thought into this bulletin board and it took me a long time to finally put it together. I really

Engaging, meaningful, math-based calendar content for your first graders!

A staple in the primary grades during the morning routine is updating the class calendar. The calendar is just the beginning of our math interactions. This post will focus on Daily Math Meeting Routines for primary grades.

We have a new math program this year and it has a calendar component. I really like it but I will be honest, I haven't implemented all of it. There is a lot in the first year of a new program and that's ok...I will get to more of it next year. Don't know why I feel the need to come clean with that but I do! That's not the point of this post. What I really want to share is the awesome 100's chart that we created together from the calendar component. This is part of Everyday Counts from the…

So these little diddy has been a work in progress. I dabbled with it over the past year teaching first grade, but I didn’t feel confident...

Make the most of your classroom calendar time with tips for a routine that works. Ideas for your classroom calendar display and activities.

Daily calendar time is a favorite for my students in my classroom. What they don’t know is that everything we do during calendar time serves a purpose. Every song I use during our morning calendar time is designed to help my students learn the days of the weeks, months of the year, types of weather, ... Read More about My Absolute Favorite Songs to Support Calendar Skills

This summer I read the book Guided Math by Laney Sammons. Chapter 3 was all about using Math Warm-Ups. A quote that stuck out to me was, "Participating in a variety of brief mathematical activities during the first 20-30 minutes of the day leads students to make subtle mental shifts into the world of mathematical awareness and learning." (Laney Sammons also has a book called Daily Math Stretches for K-2 that sounds interesting, but I haven't checked it out yet!) This is why I've always tried…

What does your morning meeting look like? If you're like me, it probably includes your calendar. Our morning calendar routine starts our day off right and I look forward to it as much as the students do!

Wondering how to do calendar time in kindergarten? In this post, I share how the calendar time activities that I do in my own classroom, to incorporate kindergarten math skills in our calendar time.