Lesson One – Calendar Dates

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record the numbers of days that match each month of the year and sort special dates throughout the year into the correct sequential order.
The class can match and list dates of special celebrations during the year and sequence these into the correct order according to their matching days and months.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record the numbers of days that match each month of the year and sort special dates throughout the year into the correct sequential order
Activities in this teaching pack include display poster to learn a rhyme to remember the months of the year and their number of days and differentiated sets of cards to identify and sort special dates throughout the year into the correct sequential order by their days and months.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the numbers of days that match each month of the year and sort special dates into the correct sequential order.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record different units of time using calendars and convert and make comparisons between times in days, hours, minutes and seconds. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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