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Students please watched the video above. This video introduce you to the parts of a calendar, as well as, what a calendar can do for us. There is a song taught in the middle of the video, which we will go over again in class. Watch the video carefully, because we will be creating a class calendar!

Grade Level: Second Grade

Unit: Mathetmatics

Lesson Objectives:
 * Students will understand how a calendar is useful in daily life.
 * Students will be able to create a classroom calendar collectively.
 * Students will be able to repeat the months of the year and days of the week in order.
 * Students will understand when the majority of the holidays fall during the year.

Time required to complete this lesson: one hour (to create project); continuous lesson otherwise

Title of lesson: The Importance of a Calendar

Description of lesson: This lesson will begin by teaching the students the basic part of a calendar (year, month, day, and day of the week). Students will be taught a song in order to remember the days of the week (can be heard in video). The overall goal of this lesson will be for the class to collectively create a class calendar. Students will break up into 12 groups, each responsible for a month of the year. Each group will create their portion of the calendar, including important dates for the class (student birthdays or last day of school for example) and holidays. This calendar will then be displayed in the classroom. Everyday, students will take turns being the "calendar king/queen." The students will be responsible for putting an X on the date we have passed and telling the class the date we are on. For example, a students might day that today is now Wednesday, March 10th and that yesterday was Tuesday and tomorrow is Thursday. This will continue throughout the entire school year and students can also choose to engage in countdowns (ex. there are 102 days left until the end of the school year).

Assignment: Students will be assessed on a daily basis, especially when they are the chosen "calendar king/queen." The information presented will be constantly brought up in class, since the calendar will become a daily ritual for the classroom.

Resources/materials needed: -butcher paper for calendar -pens, pencils, markers, crayons, etc.

Technology used: The technology used for this lesson includes the video used as an introduction from Animoto. An Audacity file was also uesd to teach the students the "dats of the week" song. Both pieces of technology introduce the concept and use of the calendar to students.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: Part of the scope and sequence section for second grade includes a unit on using calendars. The technology used in this lesson allows students to visually be introduced to this unit, and learn a creative way to remember the days of the week (song created by Audacity). Students will engage thoroughly with the technology used at the beginning of this lesson, which will spark their attention for the rest of the lesson.