This project is particularly helpful for first graders, especially those who may still be writing their numbers in Backwards Land.
We write letters so much more often than we do numbers, and many times there's not the muscle memory for how a number should go. For the older children, it's just a chance to have fun and to make a lovely handmade gift!
This year we are focusing on collage, and doing mindbending and creative prompts from How to Make a Zero Backwards: An Activity Book for the Imagination by the artist Richard Kehl. Here are my notes as we go along!
Other topics of study this month are The Story of Geometry for the older students (11-13) and An Introduction to Grammar for the younger (8-10).
Calendar Artwork
Jan - Mixed-Up Animals
Feb - Trading Cards
Mar - Sky Shop
Apr - Flowers from Their Names
May - An Eye Chart
This was surprisingly difficult for the children! I wouldn't do this one again.
Jun - Magic Names
Jul - A Visit to a Strange Land
these are from the BINGO games by Lawrence King
Aug - Sky, Handle, Shoe
colored pencil w/collage shoe
Sep - Basic Ideas
Oct - Bottom and Top
given ONLY the bottom of an image, draw what you think the top might be
it can be fun to go back and compare them!
Nov - my own idea
envelope with a letter from the child listing all the things they're thankful for
Dec - Picture Magnet
a present inside a present! 5" x 5" cardstock, laminated for extra durability
front cover - my own idea
a photograph of the child dressed in their costume from this year's class play
2025 Blank Calendar Pages
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