Students learn the seven days of the week in order, discovering which are school days and which are the weekend — an important first step in understanding how we keep track of time.
Students will be able to…
How do we know what day it is, or when the weekend is coming? How is a week put together?
Project this and tap each day. Have students learn the order of the week and which days are school days or weekend days.
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How do you know the weekend is coming?
Students investigate.
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Think it through.
Students take action.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.
Compare life in the past to life today.
Generate questions about the past and present.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
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Have students learn the 12 months in order and find their birthday month on a calendar. A printable months chart is in the Social Studies library.
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