Every Day Counts® Element Organizer
Name of Element____Calendar__________________________
Months
Concepts and Skills
August/September
-Look for, predict, and
analyze patterns
-Order the days of week
-Compare and analyze
squares and rectangles
-Explore odd and even
numbers
-Shape and color patterns:
ABAB, red squares, yellow
rectangles
-Analyze and predict patterns
-Explore rotation and
congruence
-Find yesterday and
tomorrow
-Know days of week and
months of year in order
-Count by 3’s
-Classify geometric figures
-Shape and Color pattern:
AAB Orange Circles, Green
Rectangles
-Analyze and predict patterns
-Classify and describe 3dimensional shapes
-Know days of week and
months of year in order
-Match quantities with
numerals and compare
numbers
-Develop number sense
-Shape and Color Patterns:
ABC rectangular solid, cube,
cylinder
-Analyze and predict patterns
-Classify two dimensional
shapes by attributes of a
rectangle, square, and
rhombus
-Shape and Color Patterns:
ABCB blue rectangle, yellow
rhombus, red square,
-Analyze and predict patterns
-Recognize congruence and
October
November
December
January
Grade ___2nd______
Materials
Notes
Everyday Calendar,
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
month, Today arrow
marker, Calendar
Record(TR1), yarn
Vocabulary: squares and
rectangles
Hook and Look
Math is patterns
Child created calendar
Special rectangle-square (p.19)
Yesterday and tomorrow
markers, Month strip,
Calendar Pieces for the
current month, Calendar
Record(TR1)
Vocabulary: congruent and
rotation, two-dimensional
shapes,
Number sentences that equal the
day’s date
Patterns using different
representations (i.e., clap and
stomp, materials, pattern trains
etc…)
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
month, Calendar
Record(TR1), sample of
rectangular solid (shoe
box), cube (dice), and
cylinder (can)
Vocabulary: rectangular solid,
cube, cylinder, slide, stack, and
roll
Pattern trains longer than 7
Sort and classify shapes
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
month, Calendar
Record(TR1), yarn,
construction paper for
paper chain
Vocabulary: rhombus,
quadrilateral,
Hook and Look
Make paper chain to match
ABCB pattern to count down to
number of days remaining
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
Vocabulary: line of symmetry,
multiples, triangle, congruence
100th day of school
February
March
April
May/June
symmetry of geometric
figures
-Shape and Color Pattern:
ABABC green triangle, light
blue rhombus, green triangle,
purple star
-Use collections and games
to understand 100
month, Paper cutouts of
Posters of things that come in 5’s
the calendar pieces(TR3), (p. 73)
poster paper/butcher
15th-Martin Luther King Jr.
paper
GO FOR 100 GAME:
Number cubes, blank
hundreds chart(TR 24)
CHILDREN’S
COLLECTION OF 100
Objects: 100 objects
from each child
HUNDRED CHART
PATTERNS: filled chart
and blank hundreds chart
See p. 86 for explanation of
activities
-Analyze and predict patterns
-Recognize congruence and
symmetry
-Classify geometric shapes
with one or more lines of
symmetry
-Examine pairs and half of a
set
-Shape and Color Patterns:
AABB red hearts, yellow
stars
-Analyze and predict patterns
-Classify and describe threedimensional shapes
-Shape and Color Patterns:
ABAC sphere, cylinder, cone
-Analyze and predict patterns
-Count by threes and sixes
-Classify geometric figures
-Congruence and symmetry
-Shape and Color pattern:
AABAAC green triangles,
orange circles, red squares
-Explore a growing pattern
-Use algebraic thinking
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
month, Calendar Records
(TR1, TR3, and TR4)
Vocabulary: half, pairs,
symmetry, congruence
Kids fold shapes using hearts
and stars from TR3 and TR4
Important Dates: Abraham
Lincoln-12th, Valentine’s Day14th, George Washington’s-22nd,
President’s Day-3rd Monday
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
month, Calendar Record
(TR1), globe, can, cone
example, etc…
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
month, Calendar
Record(TR1)
Vocabulary: sphere, cone
Odd and Even numbers
Counting by twos and fours
Month strip, Calendar
Pieces for the current
month, Calendar
Record(TR1), t-chart for
bike groups and wheels
Vocabulary: groups, sets
Create a t-chart like the one on p.
127 and place on calendar. Have
kids use pattern on calendar to
help complete.
Vocabulary: isosceles,
equilateral,
asymmetrical(scalene)