February Daily Calendar: Counting by 5's with Adaptations for 1st/2nd Multigrade

Here's my suggestion for your 

February Daily Calendar.
 

I would practice choral counting by fives to 100,
 both forward and backwards.

  This graphic for the hands

is available for download for free for teachers use from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology using this link:
 Florida Center for Instructional Technology Clipart ETC (Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, 2009)

 If you have never visited this site, it has many graphics available for math that are 
 for students and teachers to use free of charge.  
The site says "shopping cart," but that is for commercial use.

How do you download the clipart?

Windows: Right mouse click on any of the images and choose save image to disk. Select the destination folder and click save. You can also click and drag the image to your desktop.
Macintosh: Right mouse click on any of the images and choose download image to disk. Select the destination folder and click save. You can also click and drag the image to your desktop.
Note: Each piece of clipart will appear in four different sizes for you to choose from. If you want a very small image, you can use the methods described above to select the tiny thumbnail version that appears in the top left corner of the page. The shaded box around the thumbnail image is NOT a part of the image and will not show in the file that you download.

Adaptation for 1st/2nd Multi-Grade Class: It's also a great time of the year to start practicing reading thermometers with the 2nd Graders.

oven thermometer

 Invite your school nurse into the class during calendar time.  Have her talk about how she uses a thermometer, and the many different kinds of thermometers that are available. Then have the 2nd Graders write step-by-step directions on how to take your own temperature, a drawing that shows 98.6 on a thermometer and what the resulting temperature means...98.6 and 102.

digital thermometer

Smiles,
Deborah