Here is ANOTHER update to my free yearly calendar book files for “Write the Date,” plus links to the rest of my calendar book free downloads as well! I’ve just uploaded the files for 2017 and 2018. (Keep reading!) A Calendar Book is a notebook with a blank calendar in it that children update each day as the teacher fills in the class calendar on the wall, and often has a variety of other pages to update daily, too!
If you are unfamiliar with Calendar Books, in addition to the basic calendar, the other pages in the notebook to update usually include anything that the teacher may put on the bulletin board next to the classroom calendar, such as a weather graph, a tally mark page, a hundred’s chart that a child gradually fills in with one number per day and so on. Calendar books seem to be done most frequently in first and second grade, but are often done in full day Kindergarten classes, too. (There is generally not enough time to do this in a half day K program!
My own Kindergarten class did Calendar Books several years ago. It is a great way to cover lots of skills at a time! However, the class has to have a pretty good attention span if you expect to have them fill in a lot of different types of pages, because it can take a while to get it all done! The last time I tried it, the class in question was simply too restless to accomplish it without a lot of work on my part to keep them focused, so I came to the conclusion that that particular group of students were simply not developmentally ready for it. It was just too much paperwork for them; they needed more hands-on activities instead.
In any case, I have updated and reposted my “Write the Date” Calendar Book pages each year, although not nearly quickly enough to suit some of my followers that begin school in July or early August! And I’m sorry about that! I tend to be totally focused on the I Teach K! Conference in Las Vegas in July, and then I don’t get back into the “school mode” until closer to August. And so here are my calendar book updates for this year! You should be able to download them directly from the Slideshare site, opens in a new tab or on our site right here: 2017, opens in a new tab and 2018, opens in a new tab.
Here is a link to download the other free Calendar Book pages that I created that you see above, opens in a new tab. You can also read more about how I implemented the Calendar Book on this post here, opens in a new tab or here on this post, opens in a new tab.
Also, you will find a whole variety of calendar book activities by Shari Sloane, opens in a new tab and Kim Adsit, opens in a new tab! Just take a look at the preview and you’ll see what a beautiful set it is! Plus, she explains exactly how she implemented the calendar book. You can find them here on Shari Sloane’s TPT store! , opens in a new tab (Pss! There’s a sale on TPT now, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, so if you check it out right NOW you can get a great discount!)
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