30 Days Hath September...
Summer is a great time to start collecting new things to spruce up your room, tweaking things like your calendar board and adding a few new items to make it fresh, and designing some games.
All that can get a bit expensive, so it’s nice when you can get freebies on the Internet.
I’ve been busy all week designing lots of anchor charts, posters and calendar items.
You only have so much room for huge posters, so I think mini-anchor charts the size of a sheet of copy paper are wonderfully effective in reminding students of a variety of things.
Smaller versions can be made into a booklet for them as well or used as flashcards or made into games.
I’ve done just that with Phillip Martin’s calendar clip art.
Print off a set to freshen up your calendar, laminate a set and put on a split ring to use as flashcards, put a mini set up as a “What’s Missing?” activity.
Each day remove a month and have students guess which month was “stolen”.
Laminate extra sets and make Memory Match Concentration games. Be sure and put the matching pair on a buff or off white shade so that matching is a bit easier.
Play “I Have; Who Has?” after 12 students choose a card, to help learn the order of the months, and then repeat the game so that everyone gets a turn.
Run off enough copies to make a “Speed” card game. Students choose a partner. They each mix up their deck of cards. Partners say in unison, “Ready-Set-Go!” and then proceed to put the months in order.
The 1st one done is the winner. You could also have students alphabetize their cards before they put them in sequential order to make their Itty Bitty booklet to take home and share with their families.
Click on the link to view/download Months of the year cards.
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