Do you do calendar math in your classroom?
If you don't, you may want to consider making time for this activity.
Calendar math is the perfect time to quickly review math skills and lay the ground work for upcoming instruction.
If you already do calendar math in your class, it might be time to revisit it and make a few tweaks, to better serve your young learners.
Here are a few simple ideas to create flexibility in your calendar math setup and maximize this instructional time in your classroom.
Pictured below is the flexible calendar math setup in my class.
It's on a magnetic white board. Since the board is magnetic, it is effortless to trade out skills. If you do not have a magnetic white board available to you, you can use pocket charts, velcro, and clips to change out desired skills.
Because the board I use for calendar math is not very big, I have some other math related mini anchor charts clipped beside the board. Since they are clipped up, they are very easy to change.
In addition to the clips, I added some self adhesive magnets to the back of other manipulatives and charts to use on my calendar math board.
If you would like a free set of the headings and other elements from my calendar math board, you can click here.
Some of my magnetic manipulatives are not "homemade" (like my base ten counters). You can find all sorts of magnetic math manipulatives online. These type of manipulatives will certainly save you some time.
Here are some of the resources that are helpful when creating a flexible calendar math area...
In addition to the whole group calendar math time, I also incorporate some independent calendar math skills during our math small groups (and sometimes for morning work).
Each month I put together a Calendar Connection booklet for my students. These booklets are a great way to hold students accountable for the skills we cover during our calendar math time and provide lots of great review.
Our Calendar Connection booklets are also very flexible. I can make them as short or as long as I need. Skills in these booklets include work with calendars, completing number charts, skip counting, graphing, word problems, number representations, and more.
If you are interested in incorporating a written component to your calendar math, click on the picture below to check out my Calendar Connection.
You can also click here for a FREE sampler of the Calendar Connection.
Calendar math is a perfect way to reinforce math skills. If you are looking to add calendar math to your routine or are just looking for inspiration to make a few updates. I hope the ideas here will help you as you look for ways to best help your young learners.
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