Instructor Notes:

For materials preparations, click ‘Back to Main Menu’ button and select ‘Getting Started – EDC Setup’.

Read Every Day Counts Teacher’s Guide, Kanter and Gillespie, Great Source, 2005 or 2012 edition, p. 18-20.

At month’s end invite children to tell one thing they noticed about the calendar in September.

Making a poster of everyone’s comments is one way to honor all the discoveries. Notice who uses the terms you have modeled such as the days of the week, school days, weekend, pattern, circle, square, diagonal. Does anyone discover and point out a number pattern?