Digital Whiteboard Calendar Full Hour Accounted

You can certainly use any type pocket or magnetic shelf or bin to store your pieces.

Its first thing in the morning, and sure, Im a morning person, but thats not why I love our morning routine so much.

The Morning Calendar Routine (MCR) that I have set up is not only differentiated to meet the needs of all of my students, but its functional and its routine.

From day 1 of the school year.

To day 187. And its once and done, something I never need to think about or plan again.

Digital Whiteboard Calendar Full Hour Accounted

There are, what 7 actual learning hours in a school day and I have one full hour accounted for.

If youd rather listen and watch me explain the MCR, you can watch this video.

If youd rather read, just skip over the video If youre looking for a digital calendar routine, you can find the digital version here and a video explanation here.

Every morning starts with students putting away their coats and backpacks, and getting their communication notebooks out.

BEFORE CALENDAR At the front of the classroom is the whiteboard with the calendar, and student desks facing the whiteboard.

Student desks are the traditional desks that anyone would see in a regular ed, inclusion, or resource classroom.

I think it is important that students are exposed to and expected to sit in traditional desks, so that is how we start the morning.

Depending upon how many students are in the classroom, I set the desks up in a single row, or in groups of 3-5 students.

If a child eats breakfast, an adult will take the child to the cafeteria to get breakfast and then come back to the classroom.

This is what the calendar looks like on the front board.) DURING CALENDAR After the announcements and the Pledge, it is time for the Morning Calendar Routine (MCR) to begin.

Again, if youre looking for a digital calendar routine, you can find the digital version here and a video explanation here.

What I love about this mat is the ability to differentiate it for each student, and the ability to put the pieces in any order to fit any classroom.

This is the order I chose for my classroom because it matches how we do calendar on the front board.

I put it together this way because it mimics how a child reads a book.

Left to right, top to bottom, and then they move to the next page.

In my classroom, our mats are on the larger construction paper, but file folders work just as well.

I laminate the mats so students can use dry erase markers each day, and then erase their work with a magic eraser.

I use velcro, but you could certainly use magnetic tape on a whiteboard.

This video does a great explanation of what my calendar looks like and how we work through the calendar and use the calendar mats.

To hold all of the extra calendar pieces in a spot that is easily accessible each day, I use these magnetic pockets.