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Last updated: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Days of the Week Riddles!
Why Use Riddles?
Strengthen Endurance – Whenever I hear a riddle, I want the answer NOW! Thinking through possible answers to a riddle helps kids learn how to deal with frustration and practice patience. It also helps our brains do some stretching and exercising in different ways, probably a bit difficult after the summer break.
Build Community – If your kids are sitting in small groups, give each group a different riddle to figure out and then present to the class. Before giving them work time, set up ground rules for how people need to work together in a group. Then sit back and observe. After presentations, hold a debriefing session about what was fun and also difficult about working in a group.
Have Fun! Presenting kids with riddles and jokes is like tricking them into learning, whether it’s teaching them different strategies to think through problems or how to work together in a group.
Stump your kids with these clever riddles involving the calendar:
- Which letters do Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday have in common?
None! None of them have “c,” “o,” “m,” or “n.”
- A man rode into town on a Tuesday. Two days later, he rode out on a Tuesday. How was he able to do this?
His horse was named Tuesday.
- What are the two strongest days of the week?
Saturday and Sunday. The rest are week (“weak”) days.
- How many seconds are there in one year?
Twelve. January 2nd, February 2nd…
- A man was locked in a room with only a bed, a calendar, and a piano. How did he drink, how did he eat, and how did he get out?
The first man drank from the springs of the bed, ate the dates off the calendar and played the piano until he found the right key, which he used to unlock the door.
Courtesy of Jokes in English for the ESL/EFL Classroom
Flippin’ Through the Year
The Calendar Modular Flip Books are an interactive, visual way to teach kids about days, weeks and months and how calendars work.
Speaking days of the week, here’s an awesome WACKY WEDNESDAY deal! The Calendar Modular Flip Chart is on special starting today for $34.95 (for a savings of $15)! This price is good through the end of August!
Benefits to using this Flip Chart:
- Durability – Good quality at a great price.
- Space-Saving – I could have used this calendar in my classroom a couple of years ago – it was extremely short on wall space. It looks like it also folds up for easy storage.
- Portable – Move it to your small group to work on Days of the Week and Months of the Year!
- Reusable – No caledar accessories to replace! No bulletin boards to redo! Flip and get on with the day.
This is a great deal. But what if you could GET IT FOR FREE?
How? Simply leave a comment below with how you plan to use the Flip Calendar OR how you like to teach about days, weeks and months. The winner will be spotlighted in next week’s Wacky Wednesday post, and will get the Flip Calendar for FREE!
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Lorie
- Jul 22nd, 09
My daily calendar will be on my Smartboard for the first time this year. I’d still like to have a visible reminder of the day of the week, date and weather so kids can refer to it as they’re writing, etc. The Calendar Modular Flip Book will be perfect for this and won’t take up any wall space.
Laure
- Jul 22nd, 09
We sing a song for the days of the week that is song to the tune of “the Adams Family” theme song. “Theres Sunday and there’s Monday, there’s Tuesday and there’s Wednesday, there’s Thursday and there’s Friday and then there’s Saturday. Days of the week. (snap twice). Days of the week ( snap twice). Days of the week. ( snap twice)”. The kids love the tune and the snapping. We sing songs for months as well. I find the auditory and visual with some movement really imprints it all better. I would love to add the calendar flip chart to my visuals during calendar time!!
Carolina
- Jul 22nd, 09
Thanks for sharing. I love that riddle. The Calendar Modular Flip Book seems to be a great hands-on tool for the students. I´m a bilingual K teacher and I wish they would make one in spanish as well.
Teaching Resource Center
- Jul 22nd, 09
Sorry this product is not available in Spanish. There are 2 other calendar products that do include cards in Spanish you might want to consider though:
Complete Calendar and Weather Pocket Chart
Monthly Calendar Pocket Chart (English/Spanish)
Pattie miller
- Jul 22nd, 09
In Kindergarten we made a calendar every year of the coming year. Either the children decorated them, or we took pictures and put them on the back of each. We then gave the calendars to parents for Christmas. We also did a daily calendar with a weather chart, sang days of the week, and did math number sentences. If today is Monday we have used two out of seven days. How many days are left in the week? We would then put up the fact family 2+5=7, 5+2=7,5-2=7, etc. The kids loved it! (And so did the parents!!!)
Lisa Fogarty
- Jul 22nd, 09
Having 29 students in a combination class for the first time this year my class will be wall to wall desks!! I will have no room for a calendar wall as I’ve had in the past. The calendar flip chart will be the perfect solution. I can set it above my class mailboxes where it will be visible to the entire class.
Karen
- Jul 22nd, 09
I would love using this flipbook in my class. The fact that it is portable and can be moved will allow me to use it in centers, at calendar time, and positioned at the front of the class instead of using whiteboard space for the date.
Sandra
- Jul 22nd, 09
What I like the most about this calendar is that changing it can be a rotating daily job in my classroom, helping students to feel important and needed. Also, there are mornings that I ran our of time to change the date on the whiteboard, and this would hand over that job to my very efficient students. I like that it also has the day of the week to reinforce it’s abbreviation, and that it also has the weather.
Lucy Potts
- Jul 22nd, 09
At the beginning of the year I like to have my students find out about the day they were born, hear stories and look at their birth certificate,baby footprint, etc. Then it would be neat to use the flip chart to locate the day of the week they were born on and what day of the week their birthday will fall on when they’re a certain age.
We also use a calendar for the month to locate cool number patterns.
Kelly Wilson
- Aug 25th, 09
Thanks for entering, and Congratulations! You’re this week’s winner of the Calendar Flip Chart!
Kelly
- Jul 22nd, 09
I would love to use it for a calendar center with calendar binders.
Linda
- Jul 22nd, 09
I plan to use this new flip chart right next to my “Day of the School Year” number flip chart (the one that counts the days of the school year). My class enjoys opening the day with a song and calendar activities. I love the fact that the new chart includes the spelled out versions of the days of the week and months of the year, along with the abbreviations, because it is so important for second graders to see both. So if I don’t win the free one, I’ll certainly be ordering one!
Deb
- Jul 23rd, 09
At the end of the month, in my kindergarten class, instead of just taking the numbers off the calendar, we play our own guessing game. I will ask for a child to tell me the number between 21 & 23, or give me a palendrome number, the number after 10, two numbers added together that will make 15, etc. They love it, we get more math practice and as the year goes the kids create the questions for their friends to guess!