This is a calendar math worksheet packet I created for my own 2nd grade classroom. There are 37 total pages. 12 individual month calendar with basic questions. 12 additional individual month calendar with more in-depth questions. There are 4 pages with an entire year calendar and questions. 3 create...
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I'll admit that I thought my students had a pretty good grasp of basic calendar skills. After all, they've had daily calendar activities as a part of their daily routine since preschool, and we even spent the first trimester in second grade doing daily calendar activities as well. I guess I just made the mistake of assuming that they knew more than they did. So when our last benchmark test rolled around, I didn't think they would have a problem answering a few questions about monthly and yearly calendars. Boy, was I wrong. Sample Question: "About how many days are in one month?" Average student answer: "SEVEN!" Sample Question: "How many months are in a year?" Average student answer: "SEVEN!" And finally, Sample Question: "How many weeks in one year?" Average student answer: "SEVEN!" Are you seeing a pattern here? Okay, I did have a handful of students who did very well on the benchmark test, but there were too many of them who are obviously still confused about days, months, weeks, and how they are all related to one year in the concept of time. I noticed that many of them kept answering "SEVEN" because they know that there are seven days in a week. Beyond that, there's still a lot of confusion. My second grade team and I sat down the other day and started discussing things that we're doing in our own classrooms that are working. One of my coworkers shared this fabulous idea (thanks Denise!) for monthly calendar practice from one of our math workbooks that she's been doing with her students each month. I decided to make my own version and adjusted some of the questions, but you can grab it here: Here's what it looks like: I am so excited to get started on these with my students. I'm planning on copying a ream of these little gems front and back and having them ready to go in my paper drawer! I love it when I find a great new resource to add to my routine! Hope it can help you, too!
After much inspiration from our #efamath accountability group meeting this week. I was feeling very down about not having implemented any sort of warm-up for my Algebra students yet this year. Then came Heather Kohn's Calendar Project post, and I knew I had a solution. My solution is this week's Made4Math! Going off of Heather's calendar, I saw a way to easily provide all students with a warm-up problem for each day of class for an entire month! With our ISNs, I would be able to guarantee that all students would have it everyday, too :) Since I will be using it for warm-ups, I only included Monday through Fridays. I also wanted to focus on the difference between solving, simplifying, and evaluating, since I have noticed my students struggled with that in the past. And since we have also just worked on unit conversions, I figure it would be good to throw some of those in too. Here is my calendar: Click image to view the document in Google drive. Formatting will be funny in drive, but you are able to download original from drive, which should restore formatting. I did take some questions from Heather's calendar, since we have similar goals, but I changed many of them too. I also really like her idea of having students create questions. I might do that toward the end of the month and create my October calendar from those questions. We'll see how it goes! -Kathryn
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When setting up your Calendar, the first thing you will need to do is look at your state standards. Ask yourself, what are those key standards, that I teach once or twice, and the kids just don't seem to get it? For me, things like place value, prime and composite numbers, factors, and multiplication and division of larger numbers and fractions came to mind. Those were the things I wanted to put on my Calendar. I go through my standard (which, at this point are Common Core Standards) and check off the really "big" ones. Those are MUST HAVES on the Calendar Math page. I try to pick things that I know the kids won't struggle too much with, but will also find rigorous enough to constitute new learning. I want them to practice, not guess at answers, so I don't put finding percentages on the first level. That would be WAY too far over their heads. I do put simplifying fractions though, because, even though they haven't learned it formally yet, it is easy enough to teach a rote way and have them practice daily. (which then frees me up later to teach them the concept of it all!) Here are the actual sheets I use in 4th and 5th Grade. You can see that there are A LOT of standards covered. At first, this truly is a lot for the kids, but once they get good at it, it takes no more than 10 minutes. 5th Grade Daily Sheet 5th Grade Geometry 4th Grade Daily sheet 4th Grade Geometry Click on the pages themselves to enlarge. You will see that they are fairly similar to each other. I have designed it that way on purpose. I want 4th and 5th graders to see the consistency of it all. I want them to practice skills and not be bogged down in format. So I make them all the same, with different skills plugged in. You can click here to access BOTH the 4th and 5th Grade first level versions for free. Once I had all of the things on my Calendar that I felt needed daily, constant review, I then went about setting up my calendar board. I have had many incarnations of the board. The last few years, due to space issues, I have the templates on actual poster board. These go up and down as I work on Calendar with the kids. These are close up views of the boards I use. These were used FIRST semester in 5th grade. Second semester looks a *bit* different (no odd/even, for example) But this year, I have space again in my room (different set up) and I am able to have a dedicated board!! I am so excited to have it up all day long this year. Sometimes though, I actually just project the sheet itself on the ELMO and we review it that way. There is no right or wrong with this part, just how you as the teacher are most comfortable. I made a set of templates that I use in my class. They really aren't that hard to make, and I fully encourage you to make them on your own to fit the needs of your class. BUT, if you want to use mine that are already made, I have them available for you in my store. You can find them here. And while I fully encourage you to manipulate this to suit your needs, I respectfully ask that you do not repost on your own blog or TpT store. (free or paid) I appreciate you respecting my copyright on this. Thank you very much. OK...so there you have the set up. Now, you are probably wondering how this all works in class. I have written some more posts about it just for you! Next up, the routine! This post will tell you all about how I go about delivering Calendar instruction in my class. Or, if you would like, you can read about how to get it up and running the first week. Here is a video I made showing the gestures and motions we use. *************************************************************************** I am always asked if an editable version is available. Well, I made one for you! It is $3 at my store but all the formatting is done and taken care of. Just change out your standards. It is the 5th grade version AND the 4th grade version AND the 3rd grade version. If you teach 6th or higher, the 5th are perfect for you to edit (as they are based on CCS standards, which I know contain a lot of middle school things in other states.) Again, you can always make your own....but I have done the work for you in case you want to go that route :) Just so you are clear though, these are text boxes in POWER POINT that you can put your own words on if you wish (or just keep it that way!) These are editable for you to change the actual math TASKS. I hope that makes sense. (I don't want anyone buying them thinking they are something they are not. Inputting the numbers is NOT what the editing is for) If you teach 5th grade or 4th grade I have a special treat for you. I created a Calendar Math Starter Kit!! This is over 300 pages of everything you need to get this amazing program started in your room. What is awesome about it (and what I am looking forward to having for next year) is that I have prefilled the numbers in on over 4 months worth of Calendar time...so the sheets are literally print and go for your students. You don't have to think about what numbers you will put on the Calendar sheets. It also gives you tons of examples of how you can actually implement the program in your room. There are editable sheets AND the templates in there for you. It literally is all there. I will be updating these every year for the next few years, so if you buy it once, you basically get a subscription to it! Just click the links above.
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