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*Lindsey*
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I have a BS in Early Childhood education and did my student teaching in 1st grade. Every morning calendar time was a part of the routine.
The children would point to and say the month, day, year. Add the day to the calendar, etc.
I am wondering how you have handled teaching your children about months/days, etc.
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Lindsey
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we use songs and movement.
the days of the week is to the tune of "oh my darling clementine"
and the months of the year....well, we use "hey, macarena!" to do those. 
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Thank you, Laura.
I am trying to get out of the public school mentality and find a simple way to teach my kids days/months and such.
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If I use them, we generally talk about them and my kids learn them.
yep, just asked my 12 yr old and she could name them all off and I never worked at teaching them 
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We sing-song them, Lindsey...but I can't remember where we learned the tune...probably WEE sing.
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cactus mouse wrote:
we use songs and movement.
the days of the week is to the tune of "oh my darling clementine"
and the months of the year....well, we use "hey, macarena!" to do those. |
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We use those exact songs too! That's so funny. :)
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Hmmm...The Hungry Little Caterpillar read over and over and over again does a pretty good job w/days of the week! 
And months? Well, that seems to come from them asking, "How long until my birthday?"
Really, they do tend to pick it up along the way because it matters to them.
Funny side note: when my first was just starting K at our parish school (just shy of her 5th birthday), I rec'd a call from some specialist there. She called in concern regarding some test or other. My not-yet 5yo did ok, but she didn't know what a calendar was! The lady was dead serious and I couldn't believe it. I explained that she was still only four (she though dd was turning 6) and hadn't attended preschool. "Oh, OK." was the response.
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We used songs - not the Macarena, though...for months of the year we used "Ten Little Indians" - you end with "Those are the months of the year."
Courtesy of that famous purple dinosaur... 
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We sing them too. The months go to "are you sleeping" and the days I don't know what song it goes to if it does. We use the calender wall on hubbards cupboard website which helped my 4 yr old a lot last year. I saw with my older 3 that a lot of this does have to be taught and repeated and so I got more serious about it with my 4th. Last year we also make seasonal paintings of an apple tree at the beginning of the season...colored leaves in fall, snow and no leaves in winter, flowers in spring, apples in summer. This helped to go over the 4 seasons and I posted them over our calender. It was something we spent some time on and it was always quite pretty. We'd use different techniques and materials too (glitter in the snow, qtips for painting leaves, tissue paper for pink flowers).
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