Yearly Calendars for First Grade Students

The first grade teachers start taking pictures on the first day of school. We print each picture and organize them into individual student calendars.

As each month arrives, we continue to take pictures documenting our classroom themes and growth throughout the school year and beyond.

As the year progresses we want the students to become more involved with the photos. We teach our students to take pictures of eachother and then to download them and use clipart to enhance our classroom themes.

These calendars will go from September '08 to August '09. We give these calendars as a gift on Mother's Day.

This will be the 8th year we have done this project and the response from our Mom's is heartwarming! I even have Mom's who continue to use their calendars year after year even though the dates are incorrect!

FYI
Our calendars also contain a monthly poem which we learn in class each month. We memorize these poems, write these poems and make up our own poems for each month. These poems go with the picture theme for that month. So, not only do the Mom's get a picture diary made by their child, but the students get a memory poem book too!