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Getting the Most Out of Calendar Time

What Do You Like About Calendar Time? What Do Your Students Like About Calendar Time?

What Do You NOT Like About Calendar Time? What Do Your Students NOT Like About Calendar Time?

Purpose of Calendar Time Learn about concepts of time Spiral mathematical concepts Build concepts over time, every day Provide real-life opportunities to use mathematical concepts

Danger of Calendar Time Rote Procedures Lack of Whole Class Engagement Teaching to the “Middle” The teacher does the thinking, talking & mathematics

The Concept of Time is… Ambiguous Socially constructed Abstract

Young Children & Time Young children must understand that time is sequential Yesterday, today, tomorrow Morning, afternoon, evening Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Young Children & Time In order to understand today, tomorrow, and yesterday, a child must be able to: construct a reference point in time (today) in order to temporally position tomorrow and yesterday comprehend that the present (today) is only a single moment in a continuous process (Friedman, 1990) be able to conceptualize before and after and think about future and past events

Young Children & Time Understand the relative lengths of time or distance of past or future events from the present (Friedman, 2000). For example, how far way is October 30 when today is October 5? 4 & 5 year olds cannot usually judge such distances or lengths of time Difficult to judge length of time within a given day such as “in two hours” versus “in four hours”

Young Children & Time Young children are also learning that perception of the length of time varies considerably in relation to the experience For example, holding your breath for one minute seems much longer than playing with blocks for the same length of time.

Young Children & Time There is little evidence that calendar activities that mark extended periods of time (a month, a week) are meaningful for children below first grade (Friedman, 2000).

Young Children & Time Children don’t learn concepts of time by “watching a teacher count the number of days they have been in school or by finding all of the days of the week beginning with the letter “T” (Seefeldt, 1997).

Young Children & Time The ability to judge the relative time from a past event or until a future event in terms of the calendar year is not in place until sometime between 7 and 10 years of age (Friedman, 2000). ?

Young Children & Time Rather, young children develop an understanding of time by connecting it in ways that have meaning for them, such as counting and recording the days before a special event or the days that have passed since a birthday.

Young Children & Time True understanding of dates and the calendar comes with maturity.

Reflect Turn to someone beside you… What did you hear about young children and time that surprised you? What did you hear about young children and time that you already knew? What are you still not sure about?

Real-Life Calendar

Numeral recognition © 2012 Karen A. Blase and Dean L. Fixsen

Linking amount to number Counting backwards= 1 less than original number © 2012 Karen A. Blase and Dean L. Fixsen

The Key to Calendar Time Intentional Mathematical Processes emerge as students grapple with rich mathematics

The Key to Calendar Time The students do the thinking, talking & mathematics

Today’s Question

RCS Guidelines & Recommendations Revitalizing Calendar Time Calendar Time Daily Math Minutes Purpose Time Frame Recommendations Key Mathematical Concepts Activities Resources

Great Links http://www.mathwire.com/index.html http://www.kinderpond.com/graphingideas.html

Books About Calendar & Time Only Six More Days, Marisabina Russo The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle Today is Monday, Eric Carle One Monday Morning, Uri Shulevitz Cookie’s Week, Cindy Ward, Tomie de Paola The Grouchy Ladybug, Eric Carle Time, Math Counts Chicken Soup with Rice, Maurice Sendak

Reflect & Share Turn to someone beside you… What ideas did you get excited about? What other ideas do you have about Calendar Time? What idea(s) will you try in your classroom?

Updated RCS Report Cards

K-2 Assessments

Additional Resources RCS K-5 Wiki NCDPI Wiki http://randolphk-5instruction.wikispaces.com/ NCDPI Wiki http://maccss.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/