Months of the Year Cards (Image from Montessori for Everyone)
The New Year (or new school year) is a great time to introduce or reinforce your child’s understanding of months and seasons. If you aren’t using a daily calendar with your child, it’s great to start introducing daily calendar activities.
Montessori for Everyone has some lovely free printables that are very helpful in preparing Montessori-inspired activities to help your child understand time in the form of months and seasons. At Montessori for Everyone, you’ll find free printables for recording the weather, calendar activity set, months of the year cards, seasons and clothing matching, the four seasons cards, and seasons matching cards. The downloadable pdf files have suggestions for making the printables into Montessori-oriented activities.
Another wonderful resource for calendar activities is Counting Coconuts. Check out the post “Our Classroom Calendar & Circle Time.” and the free calendar cards!
UPDATE: For some fun ways to add interest, check out my post “Enliven Your Homeschool with Some Calendar Fun.”
Do you have a favorite calendar activity and/or activity to teach your child the months and seasons?
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Thanks for the links, Deb! That calendar activity is something LittleGirl will absolutely love.
Happy Monday!
Thanks for your comment, Larri! I’m glad you can use the links – Montessori for Everyone and Counting Coconuts always have great things to offer! Happy Monday to you, too! I hope you and your family are having an awesome 2011 so far!
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You know, this is something I have totally neglected this year! I need to review with my oldest and start teaching my youngest-thanks for the post!
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Thanks for your comment, Sonita! It’s definitely easy to have the year slip away without realizing it’s time to focus on the calendar with little ones. Have fun!
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Thanks for these links! I had planned on going over the calendar with my younger kids this semester, so this will really help out! Thanks for joining in the Hop and sharing your knowledge!
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Thanks, Joy! I’m glad you’re able to use the links! Have an awesome 2011!
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Posts like these remind me what fun it was to teach my kids when they were younger. It still is actually, we are doing a class in CSI science this month, but it’s a different kind of fun.
Keep Up the Funtastic Teachings!
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Thanks for visiting and commenting, Kimberly! I have fun remembering what fun it was to teach my kids when they were little, too. I really enjoyed teaching them all the way through high school, though … you’re right that it’s a different kind of fun when they’re older. Have a great week and a great year!
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Hi there, stopping by from the HHH. Great activities – thanks for sharing! We love Montessori stuff and have been trying to incorporate more of it into our daily homeschooling.
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Thanks for stopping by, Shay! I love to see how homeschoolers incorporate Montessori into their homeschools! Have a great 2011 homeschool year!
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I just love Montessori For Everyone – like you, Lori is such a wonderful wealth of information!
Thanks so much for the link back to my calendar.
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Thanks for your kind comment, Mari-Ann! I always love to see what Montessori for Everyone has each month. Of course, I always love seeing what awesome activities you’ll come up with for the month!
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I’m so glad to have found you through the hip homeschool hop. I haven’t been doing much with calendar time for my preschooler until now- I’m inspired! Excellent resources- thank you so much for sharing! I signed up as a follower so I can get your updates in my reader.
Thanks so much for visiting and following me! I love doing online research and finding resources like the ones at Montessori for Everyone and Counting Coconuts. Have fun – and have a great homeschool year!
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Love the links! Thanks so much for posting.
You’re welcome! I love discovering great activities online – enjoy!
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