Jungle Classroom Calendar
The kids wanted to do a "Wild Kratts" theme this year for our classroom, so I'm making everything jungle themed. This large classroom calendar can be printed as a "architect print" (22x17) for about $5.
To download the large wall calendar, click here.
And here are the themed months, days, and years cards:
The cards can be downloaded here.
These calendar cards fit a standard classroom calendar or could be resized for a smaller pocket chart. The four sets are coordinated so that they can be used together for pattern work or separately. They could also be used for a number line.
To download the individual sets, click on the links below:
Numbers in the Jungle Cards
Zebra Cards
Tiger Cards
Giraffe Cards

The set includes all major holidays, nerd days, school events, and family celebrations. They can be downloaded for free here.

To download, click here.

To download the file, click here.

Continuing our Wild Kratt's classroom theme is this jungle weather station. Every day, the teacher and children can decide whether the weather is freezing, cold, cool, warm, hot, or boiling. The idea is to help kids become familiar with the language of temperatures and the look of a thermometer before a normal thermometer is introduced in later years.
Secondly, the children can decide whether the sky is sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, or snowy. All weather pictures depict real events (from Wikimedia Commons) and are not cartoons.



As part of our calendar time every day, we're going to be keeping track of the number of day we've done school. I made this sign to go on our calendar board. The colors correspond to our ones/tens/hundreds blocks. Above the sign, I'll display our "toothpick counters." We'll start out filling the ones place with colored toothpicks. When we get ten, I'll put a rubber band around them, and we'll place them in our tens place. When we have ten bundles of ten, we'll move them to the one hundred place.
You can download the PDF file, which contains the mat, the colored numbers (white, orange, blue), and plain numbers for doing your own colors, by clicking here.
The number of our days in school will then become our number of the day, which we will count out different ways as time and skill level permit. We will be adding a sticker a day to our 10-frame page in our notebooks, which I think the kids will enjoy. I've also had the idea of adding a penny every day to a penny jar. We can convert the pennies to nickle, dimes, and quarters as we get enough change. I think showing the quantity of days in a few different formats will be helpful for developing number sense.
The Number of the Day worksheet is available here.

The Number of the Day worksheet is available here.
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