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Transform your daily calendar routine into a powerful springboard for maths reasoning and oracy skills!

This bumper 155-page resource is packed with everything you need to make calendar time meaningful for children in EYFS, KS1 and KS2. Instead of just asking “What day is it today?” your class will be spotting patterns, explaining their thinking and building rich vocabulary every single day.

-Ready to print and use – no prep required.

-Suitable for whole-class carpet sessions or morning routines at home.

-Differentiated – grows with your learners from age 3 to 11.

-Makes every calendar check-in a 5-minute maths and oracy boost.

What’s Included:

• 12 themed month pattern card sets – seasonal designs to keep learning fresh all year.
• 6 generic pattern card sets – use anytime for flexible daily calendar activities.
• Editable birthday cakes – add children’s names or photos to celebrate milestones and build community.
• Age-differentiated maths reasoning question cards – written for EYFS, KS1 and KS2, with sentence stems to support full-sentence answers.
  -Months of the year vocabulary cards
• Season posters
• Calendar display lettering

Math skills covered:
-Pattern recognition – ABAB, ABB, ABC and ABCD sequences.
-Number fluency – recognising numerals, ordering and counting forwards/backwards.
-Maths reasoning – comparing, predicting, estimating and explaining thinking out loud.
-Time concepts – days, weeks, months and counting down to events.
-Oracy skills – practising clear explanations, turn-taking and using reasoning vocabulary.

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