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. 46-48.

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 in November is a good time to name the days of the week in order, stopping to put up the new day’s piece and placing the Today marker above the day of the week.

If you have the class watch you return the October Birthday Basket to the lineup of January to December baskets and then take down the November basket to display by the calendar, they can see November is the next to the last month of the year.

By the end of week one, you might ask, “What do we see on our November calendar so far?” to see if anyone points out the new purple, red, purple, red, or circle, rectangle, circle, rectangle repeating ab pattern. On the 6th, when the square appears for the first time you might talk about what makes the square a special rectangle.