When is your birthday? How old are you-part 3

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Review the months of the year using the cards. Review with your students: How many days in each month ?

 

I see that some book’s scope and sequence have the structure using only the birthday month. Have a student come to the front and pick the card of the month of their birthday.

Teacher: When’s your birthday?

Student: June.

Teacher: It’s in June. (Stress the word IN and write it on the board. Grab the month card of June and place it next to the word in)

Graph the birthday months of your class. Place the months of the year around your classroom. Have the students look for the Month of their Birthday and stand there.

Teacher: This is January. How many students have their birthday in January?

Students: one!

Continue with all the months.

Depending on the level of your students and the scope and sequence of your book, continue introducing the birthday date. But first, review all the ordinal numbers using the cards.

I prepared a worksheet for the students to notice the difference in writing the ordinal numbers.

Have the students match the ordinal number cards and the words cards as a review.

Then, let’s move on to the birthday date. Place the month and date of your birthday on the board and model for the class. Write the word ON.

Teacher: My birthday is on August 29^th.

Have the students find their birthday month cards and say their sentence to the class.

Have the students write their birthdate on a piece of paper.

As you place the month cards around the classroom. At your signal have the students stand up and look for their birth month and stand there.  Hand them their birthday ordinal number.

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Students can help create the calendar, just glue the proper heading and have the students research the days and complete the template.

Ask questions:

Teacher: When is Sara’s birthday?

Students: It on October 20^th.

 Students write their name in the birthday date box.

More flashcards. I thought that extra practice is required for this structure. I made some children flashcards with birthdates.

Teacher: When is his birthday?

Students: It’s on June 28^th.

Here is the complete set.

Worksheets!

Worksheet 1 Questionnaire. Students walk around the classroom asking the questions and writing the answers.

Then, they cut and glue the worksheet on their notebooks and write sentences about the results of the questionnaire.

Worksheet 2. Dictate how to color each month as a listening exercise.

Teacher: Color June pink!

Have the students trace the date you say.

Teacher: April 11^th!

Students complete their worksheet. Then, have the students cut each box and write a sentence.

Worksheet 3. Make a calendar. Each worksheet has an empty space for the month. Students cut the month of their birthday and glue onto the empty space. They also write the days of the month and their name on their birthdate. Finally, complete the sentences. You can do a show and tell to the class.

Worksheet 4. The same as the other worksheet, dictate the color of each month or even better, have an individual student dictate the color of each month. Then, students write sentences using his or her birthday.

Worksheet 5. There are Birthdays in the family!Students cut out and glue all the family members and write their corresponding birthdays on their notebooks.

I made an extra set of Family Birthday flashcards to review.

Worksheet 6. Ordinal Numbers Bingo. Students write any of the 31 ordinal numbers on the 9 squares. Use the Ordinal numbers cards to call BINGO!

Worksheet 7. More Family review. Students draw or cut out pictures of their family members and complete the worksheet.

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How old are you? 2nd part

This is the second part on this Birthday Unit.

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How old are you?  This speaking activity works for Preschool and Elementary levels. Students color and cut the cupcake and write their age. Place a small pin behind the cupcake and put on their clothes.

Teacher: How old are you?

Student: I am 7 years old.

Have the students ask each other their age.

Student: How old are you?

Student: I am 6 years old.

You can also use a balloon and write the age with a permanent marker. And do the role play.
                                      

Place the Number flashcards on the board and have the students stand under their age number flashcard.

Teacher: pointing to number six. How old are you?

Student: I am 6 years old.

Teacher: pointing to number seven. How old is he?

Student: He is 7 years old.

Teacher: pointing to number ten. How old are they?

Student: They are 10 years old.

Listening activity.

Teacher: Who is nine years old? Please stand up!

Students: I am 9 years old.

Continue with more questions about the age until all the students are standing.

How old is he or she? I made these Monster Birthday Flashcards. I placed all the boys on one side and the girls on the other to review he and she. Pointing to each flashcard ask questions:

Teacher: Who is he?

Student: He is Rick.

Teacher: How old is he?

Student: He is 10 years old.

 Some teachers are using smaller flashcards and I made a smaller set and turned them into puppets. Ask the same questions as the ones for the flashcards.

A short video using the puppets.

How old are they? I made another set of flashcards with birthday kids clipart. Write the numbers that you want to practice on the board and place the children flashcards under each number.

Pointing to each set of flashcard under each number ask questions:

Teacher: Who are they?

Student: They are Ruby and Lily.

Teacher: How old are they?

Student: They are  10 years old.

The age and the family. How old are the people in the family?

Place the family member flashcards on the board and write an age under each one. Ask questions.

Teacher: Who is he?

Student: He is grandpa.

Teacher: How old is he?

Student: He is 70 years old.

Young and old. Have the students help sort the family members into young and old.

Teacher: Which family members are old?

Student: Grandpa, grandma, father and mother.

Teacher: Which family members are young?

Student: the babies, sister and brother. 

Introduce the comparisons and the superlatives of the adjectives old and young.

Teacher: Look at grandpa and brother. Who is old ?

Student: Grandpa.

Teacher: Who is Young ?

Teacher: brother.

Write the words on the board to make sentences.

Teacher: Who is older ?

Student: Grandpa.

Teacher: Who is Younger ?

Teacher: brother.

Teacher: Who is the oldest ?

Student: Grandpa.

Teacher: Who is Youngest ?

Teacher: brother.

Have the students make sentences comparing the family members.

Worksheets.

Worksheet 1. How old are you? Have the students complete the worksheet. Then, have them cut each sentence and picture. They can play to match the picture and sentence.

Worksheet 2. How old is he/she? Students read the sentences and find the matching picture. I use a different color for each sentence.

Worksheet 3. How old are they? Students cut and paste the picture where they belong and complete the missing words. Then, have them cut the pictures and glue them on their notebooks and write sentences.

Worksheet 4. Young or old family members? Students cut and paste the family members by sorting them into young or old. Then have the students cut two family members and write sentences using comparative and superlative form of the adjectives.

Worksheet 5. How old are you? Students write their age and draws the candles of their age. Graph the age using the Number Flashcards.

Worksheet 6. Using adjectives with age.

And a game to wrap up the lesson. Cut all the arrows and have the students create the sentences. You can give them hints or the arrows template as a guide.

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