What's Good for Calendar Work?

First let me give you a great web resource:

• Everything About Calendars

Anything you want to know about calendars, you can find there. And I hope you are enjoying this month of Thermidor.

Calendar work in the classroom is a great opportunity to fit a lot of things into a small space. Using a pocket chart like this Calendar and Weather chart lets you introduce and review concepts about weather, numbers, time, calendars, holidays, verb tenses, and more -- while also gathering data for later use in analysis and graphing.

Bulletin board set calendars, like this cool "Confetti Calendar" from CTP, are great when you like to change things around a lot, or want to be able to have more control over the space and arrangement of elements than a pocket chart gives you.

Sets like these give you the most for your money, since they usually include calendar grids, calendar days, month labels, and extra pieces.

If there are bits that you don't want to use for daily calendar work, you'll find that they come in handy for making centers and big books.

If you like a minimalist approach, though, or just want to change some of the things from last year, you'll find that you have plenty of choices in individual pieces as well.