Adaptations and Applications Sequencing and counting activities encourage students to understand sequence of events. Attendance tallies or charts are other methods of class record-keeping. Weather information taken from calendars could be conveyed in chart or graph form. Journals and learning logs provide opportunities for students to keep personal records. Record field trip experiences and visitors' presentations with illustrations or photographs which can be sequenced .
Students can then create text to accompany pictures and illustrations.
Keep a classroom guest book for visitors to sign. Class calendars provide information for newsletters or school newspapers. Explore how people with oral traditions, such as Aboriginal peoples, record and retell history. Students from various cultural backgrounds could share and record cultural events and discuss their perspectives regarding calendars or time passage.