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.

By the end of the month, we can model lots of language as we describe a variety of patterns appearing on the calendar. We can talk about every other one being red (or purple) going both across and going up and down.

The red rectangles and red square rectangles invite us to skip count by twos.

The stair-step ribbons of purple and red going down to the left and down to the right help us predict the colors along these diagonals.

Finally we can pick any red number and name the purple numbers it falls between and talk about the purple number that is one less and the purple number that is one more than the red number.