I want to know how to teach the calendar in kindergarten? Like what order and what information to cover.?

Question

Half day kindergarten

Answer 1

Teach it as part of your "circle time." Start with the day of the week... there are lots of different songs that teach the days of the week. Then ask them if they know what month it is... make sure you take notice when the month changes. There are even some songs that sing the months of the year. Then count up to what day it is. Then if you want, state the year. Then have them put the whole thing together. They'll probably need help at first, but if you make it routine before you know it they'll be doing it on their own. Don't try to teach the whole concept at once... eventually they'll put it all together.

Answer 2

Will not be easy as they don't yet know numbers, letters or words.

You can make games out of it.

Hey. Scrable sets or word blocks.

Start with the word Calendar and pick one with that word on it in large letters.

Have each of them use the blocks or scrabble pieces to find those letters and spell the word.

GO REAL slowly. Show them the first letter C and show them the block with C on it.

Then do it for JANUARY

Make a game out of it. Rhyming maybe. Maybe tell them the story of where the name came from.

Then have them SPELL IT OUT.

This gives them an edge on reading, spelling, letters and numbers.

Then go through the numbers and the decimal system.

Then you have to explain why some months have 30 days, some have 31 and some have 28.

Use that rhym, but ONLY after they learn ALL the months so they can relate to it.

They can't related to September if you have taught them that yet!

YOu can INSTILL the IMPORTANCE of a CALENDAR by introducing them to DAYS the school is closed.

Like 4th of July in the US

New Years DAY in January

Presidents day

Once kids learn that WEEK DAYS OFF FROM SCHOOL OR WORK are detailed in the CALENDAR, it becomes AND IMPORTANT TOOL to them!

But it's NOT going to be easy and you have to fit it in to the school year.

Figure one day to work on the word CALENDAR with speling blocks and maybe JANUARY will spelling blocks maybe even a few numbers.

Then you go over it the next day until it is ROTED into them.

If they ask why the dates vary, you say GOOD QUESTION and you tell them the story about math and how no system total fits eually into the return of the Earth around the sun each year.

Now you are teaching science, reading, math, numbers, letters and spelling.

The UNFORTUNATE side effect is those kids you didn't teach will look dumb compared to those you did teach when your students hit 1st grade.

To be quite frank if you do this and succeed they will be at a second grade level at the age of 5.

It can be done, but it has to be part game, part story and DONE completely by the end of their stay.

It is not an easy thing to do.

Answer 3

I'm an asst. pre-school teacher. We actually introduce the calender in circle time.

We put it on a large poster board. For example, At the top, there is a spot to place the days of the week. We have the days of the week on small signs and we velcro them on as the week goes by. Underneath that, we have rows of pockets. We found a great way to teach children the concept of a calender is to use a pattern. For example, for January we had little elaminated cut outs of hats and gloves. on each cut out is the number for the date....we would write the numbers on so that it would be every other. (ex. 1st = hat, 2nd = gloves, 3rd =hat, 4th =glove...etc.)

We got the children to understand the pattern of "hat, glove, hat glove" and would talk about the numbers on each. For example, we could say, "Yesterday was January 4th. What number comes after 4?" and then "so what will come next in the pattern?"

We also have them clap out the number of syllables in the name of the month. We do this as a group. Ex: Jan-u-ar-y.

They catch onto this very easily and are really beginning to understand the concept. Hope that helps some!

Answer 4

First teach them days and months and then put them together. lol Wow i didnt learn my calender in kindergarten, seems like things are getting much harder.

Answer 5

Before you cover the calendar I think you should probably cover min. sec. and hours but that is up to you.Then you should teach the order of the months. then go from there.

Answer 6

Try and communicate the idea that when they go to sleep, it moves on to the next day, and how the days add up to months, and years. Also, don't forget how it moves from 1 month to another. Oh, and leap year-- They never told my little 1st grader about leap year, she thought she slept through a whole day.