Virginia SOL K.MG.3.e
The Standard
Distinguish between days of the week and months of the year.
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will describe the units of time represented in a calendar.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students recognize that words such as Monday name parts of a week. They identify words such as January as longer calendar periods within a year.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student correctly sorts names such as Tuesday and April into separate groups. The student can explain that a week has day names and a year has month names.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat all calendar words as the same kind of label. They may also think a month lasts one day or confuse a date number with a day name.
How to Assess It
- Give each student six cards: Monday, Friday, Sunday, March, June, and October. Ask them to sort the cards into days and months.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students day and month cards to sort into two labeled hoops, then have them explain one choice.
Ask, “Would you say your birthday is on Tuesday or in July, and what does each word tell us?”
Play Calendar Corners: call a name, and students move to the Day or Month corner.
Use the class calendar to name today’s day and month before marking lunch, library, or birthday events.
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