Instructor Notes:

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Read Every Day Counts Teacher’s Guide, Kanter and Gillespie, Great Source, 2005 or 2012 edition, p. 48-49.

At the end of the month, you might ask students to first work with a partner to make a list of patterns they have noticed this month. Then create a chart to show everyone’s observations during a whole class discussion.

We can also ask, “What math have we learned from the Calendar this month?” and listen to see if children use the terms we have modeled all month.

It is rewarding when someone mentions the even numbers are multiples of two, the red multiples of three break up into group of three with no leftovers, or that rhombuses, including the squares, have congruent sides, and rectangles, including the squares, have four right angles, and so on.