Our Calendar Notebook

I love the idea of calendar time, but I always found it to be a bit difficult with multiple children the exact same ages and similar skill levels. It was always hard to decide who would get to do what. But, once I saw the idea of using calendar binders on Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snapshots, I knew I had to try it out.  (I did create some additional pages and pulled from some other resources to create our notebook. Downloads and links are below.) Since starting our calendar notebooks (I guess technically ours is a binder as well…since we do use a 1/2 inch 3-ring binder, but we refer to them as notebooks…), we have had no troubles at all…and we have been using them for almost 3 months now!

Each of the kids have their own notebook, which means that they are all doing the activities…and no one is left out of anything. We use our calendar notebooks along with our calendar time board (I got the idea for the board from the 1+1+1=1 website. To see our calendar board in action click here.) Anyhow, they complete their daily activities in their notebooks in the mornings after they do their chores (before breakfast) while I get the little boys changed and dressed. KJ is kind of in charge of helping out the big boys as needed. Once we “officially” begin our school day (after breakfast), we go over what they did in their notebook with the help of the calendar time board.

Here is our notebook, and the pages inside. I have included download links to the printables that I have made as well as links to other printables that we use for our calendar notebook.

Cover Page: The kids all enjoyed coloring their very own cover page. 

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Monthly Calendar Pages: The kids write in the correct number for each day of the month. I was able to download these pages from the Meach Calendar website.

 
Written Date Page: Right now, my daughter is the only one who does this page. I created these so that she gets daily practice with writing the date.

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Make The Date With Money: I created this page to practice counting coins. The kids have to “make the date” using the coin cards. For example, the pic above was taken on the 15th day of the month, hence the dime and nickel for 15 cents. I use a  9 pocket sports card page protector for this one. I also put a blank page behind it so that the background is solid page…rather than the next page of the notebook.

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How Many Days of School: Each day the kids write in the number of days we have been in school. For example, when this pic was taken we were having the 26th day of school for this year. I also got this page from the Meach Calendar website. (The download is a little tough to find…scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page where it says "Blank 100th Day Grids.)

 
Hundreds Tens Ones: We use this page to work on place value. We use a  sports card page protector for this as well (with a blank page behind it). Each day they add a sticker to the ones card and put the appropriate number below. Once there are ten stickers on the card, it is moved over to the tens column. The number corresponds to the How Many Days of School page. For example, this photo was taken on our 26th day of school. There are two sets of cards with ten stickers in the tens column and one card with six stickers in the ones column.  

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Tally Marks: Each day the kids add another tally mark. This also coordinates with the How Many Days of School page.  For example, this pic was taken on our 26th day of school this year. The kids also get daily practice with counting by fives.  

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Weather Graph: Each day the kids take a peek outside and fill in the graph. I got this page from Homeschool Highway. 

UPDATE: Apparently, the weather graph (above) and birthday graph (below)are no longer available on Homeschool Highway. You can download some similar pages from the Meach Calendar Site.


Birthday Graph: If it is someone birthday, the kids fill in their graph. All of a sudden lots of our stuffed animals have been having birthdays!  :-) I also got this page from Homeschool Highway.

So, that wraps up our calendar notebook. As I stated, we use it in conjuction with our calender time board. If you have questions, please feel free to ask. We love this system and I plan on using it for quite awhile!!!

Jolanthe posted about her calendar time for Preschool Corner, so I decided to link up what we are doing. 

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