A family prepares for a birthday and studies the calendar
Student Application
Recognize how a calendar can organize days, weeks, months and years and how it's related to the Earth's movement around the Sun.
Learning Objectives
Students will understand that a day is a period of time from early morning to late at night.
Students will understand the days of the week. A week is made up of seven days. The first day of a week is Sunday, followed by Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. There are two special days in each week, Saturday ...
Anticipatory Set: Hold up a blank calendar with good pictures. Turn the pages, showing the pictures and the calendar pages. Ask the children what the object you are holding is called. Record responses. Tell them it is a calendar and that they are going to watch an in...