We have an updated job, identified and described by Angie Dodd from ideas published here a year ago by Chris Stoltz and Sabrina:
24. Calendar Kid – This job is from Angie Dodd and thank you Angie! The Calendar Kid is the kid who has the job of writing up the day, the date, the weather, and “yesterday was…tomorrow will be…” Then the teacher would do some brief circling around each one, and then begin the class. The teacher wouldn’t have to do anything except start class by reading/discussing/circling what the Calendar Kid wrote down.
Here is an example. The kids writes down on the board at the beginning of class every day:
Today is Tuesday, March 30th, 2015. It’s cold.
Yesterday was Monday, March 29th, 2015. It was warm.
Tomorrow will be Wednesday, March 31, 2015. It’s going to be cloudy.
For those who could remember to do this every day (you kind of would have to if your enthusiastic superstar just went to the trouble of writing it on the board every day) it could be a totally great idea. Right there to start class every day (this would be particularly impressive to observers) you are there, with the help of the superstar who wrote it down, talking in the language yet again that day (talk about lots of reps!) about days of the week, dates and the year in three verb tenses of the nasty “to be” verb”, not to mention the weather.
A highly recommended new job (2014) from Angie!