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• Refer to the diagram above for a picture of the Frog Calendar Set.

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Classroom ManagementMonthly Planners At the start of every month, provide each student with a blank calendar grid labeled with the current month name and correct dates. Encourage her to decorate it and place it in a special take-home folder. Throughout the month, remind the student to write upcoming events and assignments on the appropriate calendar days. Use a write-on/wipe-away marker on the Frog Calendar Set to model what the student should write on her calendar. Keep families up-to-date and informed by sending the folder home each night with the calen-dar, notes, homework assignments, etc.

Good News of the Day Use the Frog Calendar Set as a way to celebrate the good things that are happening in the classroom. At the end of each day, help students brainstorm a list of good things that occurred over the course of the day. These can be recorded on the classroom’s monthly calendar, while each student can record individual milestones using the reproducible calendar grids.

Language ArtsBook of the Day Record titles and authors of books read over the course of the month on the calendar. Or, each student can record her infor-mation on a personal copy of the reproducible calendar grid provided in the Frog Calendar Set.

My Week Picture Book Read the storybook Cookie’s Week by Cindy Ward (Putnam Juvenile, 2004) with the class and review the sequence of events that occurred in Cookie’s week. Give each student eight sheets of paper to create a predictable-text storybook. On each sheet of paper, the student should write a sentence about one day of his week. For example, On Monday, I

played baseball. Let him decorate one sheet of paper to create a front cover for the book. Allow the student to share his creation with the class.

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Matching Abbreviations Help students learn the abbreviations for the months of the year and the days of the week. Copy the month and day abbre-viation cards (page 4) on card stock. Write the cor-responding full month and day names on a set of index cards. Place both sets of cards into a pocket chart or at a center station. Let each student match the months and days to their correct abbrevia-tions. On the full name cards, write the abbrevia-tions on their reverse sides. Students may check their answers by turning over the cards.

MathNumber Manipulatives Use the numbered cal-endar cover-ups in the Frog Calendar Set to help reinforce basic counting skills. Ask students to put the numbers in order to practice skip count-ing or sort them by odd and even numbers.

Calendar Math Use daily calendar time as an opportunity to reinforce several basic math skills, including odd and even numbers, place value, num-ber sequence, and sequence of the days of the week and months of the year. Below is a list of questions that can be incorporated into this daily review.1. Is the number of today’s date an odd or even number?2. What will the date be next Wednesday?3. How many days are left in the month?4. What will the first day of next month be?5. For how many days have we been in school? (Use tally marks and bundles of straws to count.)

Ordinal Numbers Give each student one of the numeral cards included in the Frog Calendar Set. Help students line up in order, beginning with the student who has the card labeled 1. The student who has the card labeled 1 would read her ordinal position, saying, “First.” Then, the next student in line would say, “Second,” and so on.

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Birthday Graph Use the month headers as a base for a month graph. Take an instant or digi-tal photograph of each student and work as a class to create a bar graph of student birthdays.

Social StudiesWhat’s in a Name? Because our calendar system is based on the Roman calendar, many months are named for ancient gods, emperors, and words. Review the list below with the class, then let each student create new names for the months based on birthdays, holidays, seasons, etc. Post the new names around the Frog Calendar Set.January: Janus, Roman god of beginningsFebruary: februa, a festival of purifi cationMarch: Mars, Roman god of warApril: aperire, meaning “to open,” as in fl owers May: Maia, a Roman goddessJune: Juno, Roman goddess of womenJuly: Julius Caesar, a Roman emperorAugust: Augustus, a Roman emperorSeptember, October, November, and December: the Latin numbers septem (seven), octo (eight), novem (nine), and decem (ten); those months’ original order

Holiday Studies Distribute a holiday label card to each student. Instruct the student to work alone or with a partner to research the history of the holiday. After information is gathered, encourage the student to display what he learned on a sheet of poster board with illustrations and text. Display each student’s work as his holiday approaches. Remember to address all of the summer holidays before the end of the term.

ArtPersonal Calendars Let each student make a wall calendar to give as a gift. Give each student 12 copies of a blank calendar grid. Help the student write the name of each month and fi ll in the dates correctly on the calendar grids. Bind the tops of the pages together. On the back of each calendar grid, encourage the student to use crayons or colorful pencils to draw a picture for the upcoming month.

Monthly Scrapbook Encourage students to cre-ate scrapbooks of their monthly memories. At the beginning of each month, give each student a reproducible calendar grid. Help students write the correct month and dates. As the month pro-gresses, allow students time to illustrate things that have happened on certain days, or to write a brief summary. The calendar grids can be mounted onto larger sheets of poster board that students can also decorate. Or, at the end of the school year, collate the books into scrapbooks of memo-ries that students can keep for many years.

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Classroom ManagementMonthly Planners At the start of every month, provide each student with a blank calendar grid labeled with the current month name and correct dates. Encourage her to decorate it and place it in a special take-home folder. Throughout the month, remind the student to write upcoming events and assignments on the appropriate calendar days. Use a write-on/wipe-away marker on the Frog Calendar Set to model what the student should write on her calendar. Keep families up-to-date and informed by sending the folder home each night with the calen-dar, notes, homework assignments, etc.

Good News of the Day Use the Frog Calendar Set as a way to celebrate the good things that are happening in the classroom. At the end of each day, help students brainstorm a list of good things that occurred over the course of the day. These can be recorded on the classroom’s monthly calendar, while each student can record individual milestones using the reproducible calendar grids.

Language ArtsBook of the Day Record titles and authors of books read over the course of the month on the calendar. Or, each student can record her infor-mation on a personal copy of the reproducible calendar grid provided in the Frog Calendar Set.

My Week Picture Book Read the storybook Cookie’s Week by Cindy Ward (Putnam Juvenile, 2004) with the class and review the sequence of events that occurred in Cookie’s week. Give each student eight sheets of paper to create a predictable-text storybook. On each sheet of paper, the student should write a sentence about one day of his week. For example, On Monday, I

played baseball. Let him decorate one sheet of paper to create a front cover for the book. Allow the student to share his creation with the class.

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Matching Abbreviations Help students learn the abbreviations for the months of the year and the days of the week. Copy the month and day abbre-viation cards (page 4) on card stock. Write the cor-responding full month and day names on a set of index cards. Place both sets of cards into a pocket chart or at a center station. Let each student match the months and days to their correct abbrevia-tions. On the full name cards, write the abbrevia-tions on their reverse sides. Students may check their answers by turning over the cards.

MathNumber Manipulatives Use the numbered cal-endar cover-ups in the Frog Calendar Set to help reinforce basic counting skills. Ask students to put the numbers in order to practice skip count-ing or sort them by odd and even numbers.

Calendar Math Use daily calendar time as an opportunity to reinforce several basic math skills, including odd and even numbers, place value, num-ber sequence, and sequence of the days of the week and months of the year. Below is a list of questions that can be incorporated into this daily review.1. Is the number of today’s date an odd or even number?2. What will the date be next Wednesday?3. How many days are left in the month?4. What will the first day of next month be?5. For how many days have we been in school? (Use tally marks and bundles of straws to count.)

Ordinal Numbers Give each student one of the numeral cards included in the Frog Calendar Set. Help students line up in order, beginning with the student who has the card labeled 1. The student who has the card labeled 1 would read her ordinal position, saying, “First.” Then, the next student in line would say, “Second,” and so on.

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Birthday Graph Use the month headers as a base for a month graph. Take an instant or digi-tal photograph of each student and work as a class to create a bar graph of student birthdays.

Social StudiesWhat’s in a Name? Because our calendar system is based on the Roman calendar, many months are named for ancient gods, emperors, and words. Review the list below with the class, then let each student create new names for the months based on birthdays, holidays, seasons, etc. Post the new names around the Frog Calendar Set.January: Janus, Roman god of beginningsFebruary: februa, a festival of purifi cationMarch: Mars, Roman god of warApril: aperire, meaning “to open,” as in fl owers May: Maia, a Roman goddessJune: Juno, Roman goddess of womenJuly: Julius Caesar, a Roman emperorAugust: Augustus, a Roman emperorSeptember, October, November, and December: the Latin numbers septem (seven), octo (eight), novem (nine), and decem (ten); those months’ original order

Holiday Studies Distribute a holiday label card to each student. Instruct the student to work alone or with a partner to research the history of the holiday. After information is gathered, encourage the student to display what he learned on a sheet of poster board with illustrations and text. Display each student’s work as his holiday approaches. Remember to address all of the summer holidays before the end of the term.

ArtPersonal Calendars Let each student make a wall calendar to give as a gift. Give each student 12 copies of a blank calendar grid. Help the student write the name of each month and fi ll in the dates correctly on the calendar grids. Bind the tops of the pages together. On the back of each calendar grid, encourage the student to use crayons or colorful pencils to draw a picture for the upcoming month.

Monthly Scrapbook Encourage students to cre-ate scrapbooks of their monthly memories. At the beginning of each month, give each student a reproducible calendar grid. Help students write the correct month and dates. As the month pro-gresses, allow students time to illustrate things that have happened on certain days, or to write a brief summary. The calendar grids can be mounted onto larger sheets of poster board that students can also decorate. Or, at the end of the school year, collate the books into scrapbooks of memo-ries that students can keep for many years.

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• Laminate the Frog Calendar Set for du ra bil i ty.

• The Frog Calendar Set can be displayed on a wall or bulletin board.

• Refer to the diagram above for a picture of the Frog Calendar Set.

GUIDE GCRCU ROUSOESRRESOU RCE GUGCOS E GUIDERER SOU RCE GUO DEEGUIDEECRUOSERRESOU ROU RCE GUID

TitleIdeas

Leap Into a New Year

Hop Through the Holidays

“Ribbit” Right Through the Year

Jumping Month by Month

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