♫ There Are Twelve Months in a Year ♫
In the hallway outside of the kids’ rooms, there hangs a calendar.
I bought it in a teachers’ supply section of an office store. It was designed to hang on a bulletin board so that you could use staples or thumbtacks to hang it up.
This hangs on the hall wall. We use tape. I tried to use that sticky gum stuff so that it wouldn’t rip the base or the numbers, but Johnathan ate it.
The boys take turns hanging the numbers, and we all count together. I didn’t realize how much Johnathan was learning with this activity until this month, when he told me every number that was next all the way to about sixteen. Once we got to the twenties, he was able to pick up his pace again, learning to put the word twenty in front of each number. If we can just get over those confusing “teen” humps, he’ll be on a good counting roll. He isn’t two yet. Scott wanted to keep going to forty, so we just counted beyond thirty-one without the aid of the numbers.
The first of every month, we take down the old numbers and put up new. Every month is a different design. April’s numbers were raindrops and umbrellas. Scott is looking forward to June because it’s fish and seashells. I LOVE that. I pretty up my yearly calendar with stickers for every month. I often said if I had the storage for all of the dishes and wall hangings that I would decorate my kitchen per season. I love assigning apples to September, fall leaves to October, kites and lambs to March.
Every morning we stop at the calendar after getting dressed and brushing teeth. As I point to the month, day, and date, this morning I will say, “Today is Wednesday, May twelfth. This is a day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
We love putting our calendar together. We love that time that we spend counting, talking about what might be happening this month, talking about the colors and shapes on the numbers, looking at the letters in the month’s name. It has become a very hands-on, visual learning tool.
And it’s just quite simply a lot of fun.
Hallee
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Oh, that is a fantastic idea! It’s great to see them so excited about something and learning!
what a fun idea! we used to do in preschool but i have yet to make one for Avery.
I totally need to get out my calendar for my 17 month old son SOON. I was a teacher and I have so much stuff, but I really don’t have much place to put it, but I do need to find a spot. Thanks for the reminder.
I found your blog today, and I love it! I am LDS, but I love to find other moms who have strong values and want to raise their children in a way pleasing to God. It’s a scary world, and they need all of the help they can get! Thank you!
I love the little lessons that can be worked into life like this :) Totally getting a calendar now :)
Mine is in the hallway on the wall at their level. Doesn’t really match the decor, but I’m shrugging that off. LOL
Welcome. I’m so glad you found me!
We love our calendar too. Megan picked up her days of the week quick that way b/c we always sang the “There are seven days in a week” song. She really enjoyed it. We used to put up pictures of special things we were doing that day too. I’ll have to bring it back out now that school is ending.
So cute!! I should start doing this with my kids. I love reading about how other people do things with their children, motivates me to do stuff too!