Alanna is overjoyed with the fact that she has won a prize in a school contest. It’s a perpetual magnetic calendar. Kevin explains what a perpetual calendar is: it’s a calendar you can use all year every year forever. Norm is impressed. “Wow! That looks completely calendar-iffic!. Let me stick it to my fridge.” He grabs the box and trips, causing the pieces to fly wildly about (zing zang fwang!) and stick to metal surfaces all over the place. As they gather up the pieces of the calendar Uncle Norm expresses his interest in this magical calendar or Magi-calendar. He has lots of things to plan for, so exactly what does it do and how does it really work? Alanna visits a film director as they use calendars all the time to organize the shooting schedules for movies and TV shows.

The Gist: This episode is about the standard measure of time and the units of measure involved in measuring time. In the curriculum, children are required to solve problems involving the relationships between (minutes and hours, hours and days), days and weeks, and weeks and years (all as a unit), using a variety of tools (e.g.,calendars); identify and describe, through investigation, number patterns involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication, represented on a calendar; name the months of the year in order; and, read the date on a calendar.