Last night, I made three stops before I found the calendar on my sister’s wish list. Usually I can find the wisecracking, female cartoon personality who tickles my sister’s funny bone most anywhere. Not so this year. If one more stop was required, dear sis was going to receive a calendar filled with puppy pictures. (When I get in a pinch, I tend to buy for myself!)
I sure hope retailers keep publishing paper calendars. I use an online calendar at work, and it keeps me sane—which is no small feat. Yet each year, I still buy at least one paper calendar with pictures. The pictures make me smile—something my online calendar has yet to do!
Care to share your calendar habits? Anyone collect outdated calendars for classroom use?
Happily,
Diane
Calendars work great for bulletin boards or classroom decorations. They also work well when teaching about a certain animal or place, because you can find calendars for almost anything now. The dollar store has calendars with beautiful pictures, and they’re super cheap, so that’s where I look first. Michael’s sometimes does as well.
I use calendars to teach and show pictures of things. I too have a paper one at home despite all the calendar gadgets we have. Its a easy way to track my family. We all write everything on the calendar and we know where they are at a glance.
Calendars pictures also make great picture prompts for writing.
I make books out of old calendars. I take them apart, cut apart the small pictures that are usually on the back of the calendar, laminate everything, bind the pages together with yarn or ribbon. and then use velcro – one part on the large picture, one part on the small one, and voila! I have a picture- matching book!
Hi! My calendars at home are usually floral ones so I give the old ones to the art teacher for her classes. She finds them very helpful…many calendars are quite nice & hate to throw them away!
I save the calendar photos to post around the room for different themes. I have good calendar photos for pets, zoo animals, and ocean life. Calendars are a big help!
I use the large desk calendars for kids to ID numbers up to 31, and we use the large spaces to write letters, or copy numbers, or write short words.
I love to use calendar pictures for descriptive writing. I set out several pictures (all penguins, all puppies, all flowers, etc) and the students write about on of the images. When shared if we can’t distinguish which picture they’ve written about then they haven’t included enough detail. Needless to say, students catch on and enjoy writing and reading their descriptions and identifying the correct image.