We have always offered school calendars. We have our art teacher handle the individual classroom art and each room represents a new month starting with Sept. (new school year) and ending in Aug. (the end of next school year - 2003-2004). Each month has a theme, the children each take a turn at drawing a picture relating to the months theme, the picture is centered in the middle of the page with a border around it, in the border the children all write their names. As far as the dates we list all the primary dates; PTO meetings, school conferences, closings etc. If there is a change we forward a notice home to parents. We try to have the artwork completed prior to the end of the school year so that we can get it to the printers. We have found that it works best if we pre-order our calendars. There was a few years we got stuck with many left-overs and we felt it wasn't worth having them. So now when we send home info at the start of the school year about joing the PTO we include the calendar order with PTO membership sign-ups. We charge a membership fee ($6.00) & calendar fee ($4.00). Then we know exactly how many to order from the printer plus an extra 20-25 to sell at open house. We tried magnet calendars last year as a last resort (our school was in a re-org battle with the school dept. - and the art teacher didn't do the calendar pictures because of this) Magnets were nice but not as popular. Hope this helps - good luck.
we make the calendar before the start of the school year it is just like a regular calendar with different artwork for each month and room to add personal things in the day boxes. We sell the calendars starting at open house. the calendar only has the school months in it though! Good Luck!
Our principal does one every year. She puts it in the handbook. It looks like a simple word document. The district prints them up. Each school is allotted so much in printing, and this is part of it. I may have a calendar creator program on my computer. I know I have something, but haven't been able to use it yet. There is somethin on the epson website www.epson.com/
and click on craft projects, then cool school tools.
I Just found it the other day and haven't had a chance to play around with it. I will look on my hard drive and see what else I have.
WE used to do them every year and are thinking of going back to it the only thing we did that was a problem was we posted all the school events for the year and poeple got upset if something changed. Not a big problem really! the only reason we stopped was that our central PTO took it over and did it for the whole district. But they got burned out and have now stopped so we may start again. Good Luck!
