More calendar stuff

Like I said yesterday with my Interactive Calendar post, I do more with calendar than just "calendar". I think there are a lot of skills that can be crammed into  expanded upon in this valuable whole group time and try to cover all my bases!
I told you I would post more of my calendar templates, so here they are: (in no specific order)

1. Money- I usually have an 'amount of the day' ....at the first of the year I tie it to how many days we have been in school. Then when they 'have it' , I start chosing random amounts as our 'amount of the day'.  I created this template with the idea in mind that we would write and then circle the coins needed to make our amount of the day.

2. Weather- We like to graph the weather and talk about the temperature. We also fill in the thermometer. With my 'not as smart as yours' board, I can leave the thermometer filled in and erase or add to depending if today is hotter than or cooler than yesterday!!!

3 We also talk about the phases of the moon and part of our science units have us graphing what phase the moon is in for a month and using that data to predict what phase it will be in on a certain day....a lovely TEK for those of you out there in blog-land that are non-Texan!

4. Time- We show time on an analog clock and then write and read it in a digital format! We practice time starting out with hour and half hour and then get more advanced depending on the skill level of my class!

Tomorrow I will post some more aspects of our 'calendar'. What do you do for your calendar time??