Daily Calendar Notebook

Our Daily Calendar Notebooks, which we use in conjunction with our Morning Board, are in three ring binders and the pages we use and change every day are laminated and filled in with whiteboard markers, and other pages are reprinted when we need them and filled in with a pencil. Their notebooks are the same, except that most of the Grade 3 notebook is in cursive.

Our cover page is from Our Aussie Homeschool and inside we have the First Day of School - what I looked like and an interview.

I took a picture of the kids holding these signs for the page above.

I used the Amazing - Incredible Handwriting Worksheet Maker! (their words, not mine. I just think it's funny) to make cursive and non cursive tracing pages for our address and phone number. You could also download this font to use.

Next is the 100 Days of School from the Calendar Notebook Binder Printables from Homeschool Creations,

and her days in school and day of the week pages as well. We're not using the tally marks page shown here.

They trace the day of the week and the month of the year, Grade 1 in print and Grade 3 in cursive, from 1+1+1=1.

We have a section on weather, where we record, graph and tally the weather with printables from Our Aussie Homeschool.

They trace the colour words and shape words that go with Colour of the Day and Shape of the Day on our Morning Board.

Lastly, we do some geography. We're learning the provinces and their capitals with printables from KidZone Geography for each province. They colour them them matching our map of Canada on the wall, and fill in the name of the province (supposedly a new one a week, but not quite).

We have an unlabelled map of Canada from abcteach.com that they label with the province abbreviation and we play a little game where they point with a finger to the province on the map when I say its name or capital,

and a flag of Canada that they've coloured in.

These notebooks were a lot of work to put together, but well worth it, I think. I enjoy starting off the day together and they are learning a lot. I hope. Making memories anyways, right?