After you print out this file, assemble the pages for immediate classroom use into a time line strip of any month you may wish to represent in your First Daily Calendar.  There are eleven pages that the teacher or an older student can simply tape or glue together in sequential order to form a time line of one month.  Use the cut-outs from any old calendar, so that each day a new child can take his turn at pasting or taping the printed number of the day of the month.  An older child or the teacher may write the name of the week underneath.  The First Daily Calendar was designed by Dr. Montessori as a sensorial representation of the passing of each day stretched on a horizontal time line for one month.  It gives young children of the Preschool and Junior Elementary level a concrete representation of the sequence of the days of the weeks and of the months with the concept of day as a unit of time. Printed shaded lines under each day of the calendar indicate where the children can write a short statement, such as: “Today is Friday” or “Tomorrow there will be no school.” 

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