K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Months of the Year
Take your young group of learners through the school year one month at a time with this series of printable materials. Offering word cards for each month of the year, this resource is a simple way to support children with...
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Thanksgiving 3—Traditions
Thanksgiving is a treasured national holiday, but it can look different from table to table. Through a reading passage, real-world images, and class discussion, scholars take a look into Thanksgiving's importance to the...
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Homeschool Goals and Planning
Set clear planning goals and objectives for your school year with this nice set of printables. Designed for homeschool teachers, these handouts include spaces for outlining your school's mission and goals, objectives for each...
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January Calendar Pieces
Mark the days of January with cute penguins and snowmen. From the first day of the month to the last day, your class will love checking off the cold days of winter.
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Calendar Review
In this calendar activity, students complete short answer questions about the calendar with months and days and seasons. Students complete 23 questions total.
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Time: Month, Day, Year, Minute
Get all those time questions answered. Each slide contains one informative fact related to time. By the end of the slide show, your kids will know how many days and weeks are in a year, how many hours are in a day, how many minutes in an...
Pearson Longman
A New Calendar
The year 1582 was a very strange year. That year there was no October 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14. Kids find out why when they read this short comprehension worksheet with a passage about the new calendar instituted in 1582.
Student Handouts
What Year Is It?
This page includes a space to write in the date, but what does the date even mean? And where does it come from? Inform your class about the various calendars and how the Western calendar came into widespread use with an informational...
National Museum of the American Indian
Lone Dog's Winter Count: Keeping History Alive
What is oral tradition, and what unique tool did the Native Americans of the Northern Great Plains use to help them remember their complex histories? Through pictograph analysis, discussion, research, and an engaging hands-on activity,...
Trinity University
I Didn’t Know that was Poetry
Poetry or prose? That is the question facing middle schoolers as they begin a month-long poetry unit by examining the characteristics that differentiate poetry and prose writing. Pupils learn about poetic devices and different types of...
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The Civil War
A unit focuses on the Civil War. Second graders follow along with an informational reading about the war—why it started, how it ended, and essential individuals such as Harriet Beecher Stow, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Ulisses, S....
Livaudais-Baker English Classroom
Kindred
This first in a series of four resources is designed for instructors to use Octavia E. Butler's Kindred in their classes. The packet includes an overview of the unit, a day-to-day calendar, links to background articles, and reading...
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Make a Multicultural Calendar
Learners research traditions of different cultures and create a multicultural calendar, including important dates in the traditions of their assigned culture.
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Months and Days Crossword
In this calendar worksheet, learners read 20 clues pertaining to the days of the week or months of the year. Students fit their answers into a crossword puzzle.
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Calendar Math
Students count and name the numbers and days on the calendar in order to determine the date. They identify the month and the entire date, and determine the pattern shown on the calendar markers. Students then calculate how many days...
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Lesson Plans Using Calendars
Students can learn about the history of calendars and the use of time management skills with these lesson plans.
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Mayan Calendar
Students investigate the early Mayan Calendar. In this algebra lesson, students combine three different disciplines to study and review the effect that Mayan calendar had. They investigate multiples and smallest common multiples.
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El Calendario Espanol
Teach calendar vocabulary in Spanish with this colorful PowerPoint. From days of the week, seasons, and months, students will benefit from this organized information and images scattered throughout.
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El calendario notes guide
A comprehensive note-taking guide for days of the week, months, seasons, dates, and holidays. Either design your lessons around this guide (so that learners fill it out as you teach), or consider distributing this as a review guide...
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Spring Time Trees/Flowers
Plan ahead! Integrate science and language arts! Schedule your reading of C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe to coincide with the arrival of spring. As pupils read Chapter 11 of the Lewis classic, they are assigned one of...
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Calendar Activity Set
In these calendar activities worksheets, students view and use a calendar with the days of the week, holiday stickers, months of the year, number squares one to thirty-one, the "Days of the Months" poem, and a calendar research activity....
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Using the Calendar
In this math activity, students use a sample calendar to learn how to solve word problems. Detailed directions are given on how to solve different kinds of problems. There is a one page information sheet and one page of 15 word problems...
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Equations and Inequalities Projects
Students compose equations and inequalities whose solutions are the integers 1-31 and utilize them to number one month of a calendar. They take notes on two ways to work backwards from a solution: by using the number and by setting x...
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2nd Grade - Act. 28: Calendar & Weather Book
Second graders will track the weather patterns throughout the school year. This project spans the school year and takes five minutes per day or less. Measuring, data collection, and predictions are all explored throughout this relevant...