1. Kindergarten Teachers!
Welcome Back
Kindergarten Teachers!

2. READY……
SET……

3. GO!!!!!

4. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND COMMON CORE
LEARNING TARGETS FOR UNIT I
CONCEPTS TO HIGHLIGHT
MATH PRACTICES

5. TASKS/RESOURCES
CLASSROOM ROUTINES/ TEN- MINUTE MATH/ MATH TALKS
CONNECTIONS TO OTHER TOPICS/SUBJECTS
VOCABULARY
SPECIAL NOTES

6. Getting the Most Out of Calendar Time

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

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

9. 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

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

11. The Concept of Time is…
Ambiguous
Socially constructed
Abstract

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

13. 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

14. 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”

15. 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.

16. 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).

17. 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).

18. 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). ?

19. 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.

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

21. 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?

22. Real-Life Calendar

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

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

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

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

29. Today’s Question

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

37. Great Links http://www.mathwire.com/index.html

38. 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

39. 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?

40. Updated RCS Report Cards

41. K-2 Assessments

42. Additional Resources RCS K-5 Wiki NCDPI Wiki
NCDPI Wiki