Instructor Notes:

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Read Every Day Counts Teacher’s Guide, Kanter and Gillespie, Great Source, 2005 or 2012 edition, p. 48.

Some teachers like to involve the class in making the transition to the new month by removing each October piece as the class says its number from 1 to 31, and then replacing the October label with November.

The first week is a good time to name the days of the week in order, then attach the new day’s piece and move the today marker to mark the day.

If you have the class watch as you put the October Birthday Package back into the January to December lineup, and take out the November package to display near the calendar, children can see where November fits in at the end of the year. Children with birthdays can remove their markers from the Package and figure out where to place their birthday markers on the calendar.

By the end of week one, we can ask, “What do you notice so far?” When triangles are mentioned, we can ask, “What makes a triangle a triangle?” You might have 3 volunteers each pull on a loop of string to show that a triangle has 3 corners and 3 sides. Then have 3 other volunteers “hook and look” to see a different triangle. Once everyone has had a turn, children will see that triangles can look quite different from one another and still all be triangles, if they have three sides and three corners.