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. 33.

When you pull the October basket (or your second month of school basket, if you are a year-round school) out of the line-up of the year’s months and place it near the calendar, children can see the shapes of the birthday package markers. This is a good time to pass around a few real life examples of cylinders, cubes, and other rectangular boxes for them to handle and talk about. Focus attention on the two circular bases on the cylinder and on the six flat faces with 4 square corners on each of the cubes and other box shapes. What makes the cube a special rectangular box?

After discussing the shapes, have the class look at the numbers on the individual birthday packages and put them in order from the first birthday to the last to arrive this month. Finally, let the children with birthdays coming up this month, figure out where to place their birthday packages on the Calendar.