Teaching kids with calendar skill make you have to think out of the box. Instead of making them stick with the template all the time, you can create something different with the countdown calendar. Let’s get crafting!
It can be created for any celebration such as a birthday or Christmas. This explanation gonna leads you to the Christmas version. Decide on the theme first. Because Christmas is linked to the snowman, you can use this template to embellish the countdown template. Let’s jump to the materials preps!
Gather all the materials such as the paper plate, snowman template, coloring pen, black marker, paper, glue, and scissor. For the snowman template, choosing the separated ones will be great. In this project, you will include the coloring activity too. Let the kids color the snowman template and stick each component on the paper plate.
Continue with letting the kids write the numbers that represent the dates in a month. Create the clock hand cut out from paper and place it in the middle part of the paper plate. It needs to be moveable, so the kids can change where it’s pointing.
To use this countdown calendar, kids just have to move the clock hand each day. Giving the sign on the special date will be more helpful. Just try it on while also becoming an alternative media and activity to develop their skills.
The day of the week is no doubt connected to the kid’s life every day. Therefore, it’s your job to introduce them to it. Many kinds of ways you can choose to deliver it to your students. A worksheet could be great as long as the activities are in line with the materials. Let’s check this out to know the activities to put on your worksheet!
Start to introduce the kids to days of week vocabulary. Of course, it needs to consist of 7 days' names. If the kids are already familiar with it, you can remind them using a tracing worksheet. All kids need to do in this worksheet is connect each dot that refers to 7 days of the week.
Jump to make them memorize the vocabulary well through complete the blank letters. This activity supposed the kids to fill the blank space with appropriate letters that were intended for the days of the week. Having a coloring activity for icebreaking will be fun. Provide the rainbow template with the days of the week stated in each layer. Let the kids color each layer based on the rainbow color.
Make kids engage with the days of the week in the right arrangement through copy-and-paste worksheets. In this worksheet, you can provide the list of days of week names in the scramble. Kids have to cut each day’s name and stick them in the column you’ve provided.
Those are the activities you can put on the days of the week worksheet. All of those are considerably engaging. Choose the one that you think it’ll be fun for them!
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A calendar somehow can help your life to be organized. Scheduling all of your things in life make you meet good habit and leads you to be disciplined. It is a simple thing but definitely can change your life if you stick with it all the time. Here are some other reasons why.
Planning your schedule to study. As a human, you all better keep studying things and become better person every day. Scheduling your study in the calendar makes you stick with it and obey with time to study.
When you are needed to share the schedule with others, it’s simpler if you just use it. You might have to inform your parents about the college schedule, then it will help you to organize it and make it easy to share the information.
Writing the planner on the calendar can help you ease the anxiety. If you are really productive person, then it’s time to consider making a planner. You might have a lot of schedules that make you a headache. By writing on it, you will remember every detail of things you should do. You are also able to do preparation before the day comes out.
Other reasons you should keep one in your life are knowing your free time in quickly, being aware of the schedule you have, and more. From there, you all know that having a calendar in your life is indeed very useful and important.