Homeschool Calendars are available in various designs. The one page Homeschool Calendars begin at different months of the year like January, May, June, July, August and September. The calendars are usually meant for a period of 12 months or 13 months. Calendars like the Blue Calendar, Ruled Calendar, Vertical Green Calendar and Clean Calendar belong to this category.
The one page calendars are also available in various other month formats like 15-month calendar and 18-month calendar. You can easily make a calendar by means of a calendar generator. It enables you to create a calendar with such a combination of the year and month that is usually unavailable. In these calendars, you can also make a provision for typing a 5-line header.
The Monthly Calendars are divided into seven columns, considering the seven days of the week. Each day comes with a space so that you can write notes or reminders on them. These calendars are available in one page. The monthly calendars are also available in a horizontal format, which are ideal for placing in notebooks.
In case of the two pages Dated Block Household Planner, every block denotes a day. The calendar has ruled space both at the right-hand side of the calendar and at the bottom. The other kind of Dated Block Household Planner only has ruled space at the bottom. There is also an Undated Monthly Block Calendar that has no months or dates but only days. Every monthly Block Planner is available in two pages and has a ruled space.
The Blank Calendars are useful in teaching children about the working of a calendar. The blank spaces enable them to fill in the dates and months, thereby teaching them the number of weeks and days are there in each month. Children can also use the blank space at the top to draw certain pictures. The calendar has days marked in seven columns and has either five or six rows for writing the dates. There is another type of blank calendar called List-top Blank Calendar that has two lists at the top, for the purpose of writing to-do list and significant dates.
The Event Calendars are available in both monthly and daily formats. The small blocks enable you to write important events. The heading marks the period of notable events and the 12 months are divided into 12 columns. The presence of several rows enables you to record the dates of concerts, goals, field trips, appointments and many more. A single or double sheet of paper can be used by these event calendars. The event calendars in landscape format provide a block for a day and the calendars in portrait format provide a block for a month so that you can record goals or events of that month.
The Small Desk Calendar is also quite handy and enables you to write notes in a jiffy as it can be placed almost anywhere. The Half-size or Desk size planner book refills are easily printable and are meant for personal organizers. The Personal Calendar, especially the Fragmentary Account is used for recoding information like appointments, birthdays, health issues, activities and more. This ruled calendar provides a line mentioning the day and date and appears similar to one-liner journal. This 12 page calendar enables you write something short, regarding the day.
In case of teaching children the way to remember the number of days of each month, you can follow the popular poem “Thirty Days Hath September” and the knuckle method. For teaching the knuckle method, you need to make a fist so that the knuckles form the hills and the depression forms the valleys. While there are 31 days in the hill months, there are 30 days in the valley months. You only need to count from the first knuckle.
Each day, you can also tell them about the present day, previous day and forthcoming day. For example, you can tell them that today is Tuesday, tomorrow is Wednesday and yesterday was Monday. Telling children every day about the days will help them in remembering the days. They will also learn the meaning of yesterday, today and tomorrow. It is also advisable to teach them that the next month starts the day after the previous month ends and instructs them to make calendars including the national and state holidays.