When is your birthday lesson plan

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Sometimes I give out a point for the month and another point for the day. Depends on how the class is going. I also hold up photos with Japanese captions to correspond with each question. Once I get through the seven book quizzes, I start throwing out different holidays. There are a lot to choose from.

Some of my favorites:. There are also several holidays whose dates change each year. Four of them are the Happy Monday holidays that fall on, like, the third Monday of the month or whatnot. These holidays were changed to always fall on Mondays to give Japanese people four guaranteed three day weekends a year. Kinda nice, right? The Happy Monday holidays are:. For this activity I usually have the kids write their names and student numbers on single wooden chopsticks in pencil or pen. Each kid has a student number in a Japanese classroom and the class size limit is 40 so you technically can just go by student number and not name but it feels impersonal.

I put the name chopsticks into a cup. Demo the activity by saying your own birth date and having them repeat the sentence structure after you. They have said the words. They are finished. The idea here is that it can be boring, stressful, and time consuming to have every single kid state their birth date. So, with gamification, we give the kids a challenge. Not every kid necessarily has to say their birth date.

And, if you do have to state yours, and you do well, you can save someone else! Finish the entire cup of chopsticks or number cards off and the activity is also finished. Last in this lesson, the kids put their knowledge of months and dates to use, matching characters from the textbook to their birthdates. To make it easy to check and follow along with, I print off and cut out an enlarged version of the textbook page.

These scraps of paper with the characters faces and their birth dates go up on the chalkboard. Like all simple book quizzes, I read the script aloud from the leftmost character to the right. We check their understanding together. I pass chalk bits out to kids and they connect the dots on the board.

Very straightforward. I make a big show of filling out my own name and birthdate and point to the slips of paper for the kids to do the same. I collect the papers and the lesson can formally start. Related Books and Products. Best of Dr. Jean Feldman. Grade PreK-K. Save to Wishlist. From the Teacher Store. Grade Popsugar: You've Got This. Jessica MacLeish.

King Baby. Kate Beaton. Grade PreK Read i ng level H. Kelly Greenawalt , Amariah Rauscher. Rise to the Sun. Tell students they must listen and identify the correct person in each case. When students are ready, play the recording. Answers: a. Martha, b. Kenji, c. Sun-Hyi Put students into pairs and ask them if they can remember what each person is going to do or get for their birthday this year. Give them a few moments to discuss and then play the recording again for them to listen and check their ideas.

Be sure to mix the cards thoroughly before you hand them out. Tell students that they are going to listen to the three people again. Explain that this time they should listen carefully and match the words and phrases on each card with the person who says them. Tell students to look at the words and phrases on the cards and give them time to match any they can from memory. Answers: Martha; flight attendant, China Airlines, work, restaurant, evening, dumplings, noodles, parents, grandmother, money.

Kenji: Tokyo, May 14th, weather, really nice, park, picnic, friends. Sun-Hyi; Pusan, mother, sometimes cooks, meal. Put students into pairs and tell them to ask and answer questions about each person and what they usually do on their birthday, using the word cards as a guide. For example: Where is Sun-Hyi from? Have them write each phrase they hear with going to in their note books.

You may also wish to do the same for adverbs of frequency usually, sometimes, never, etc. Put students into groups and tell them write what Martha usually does on her birthday as exactly as they can using the word cards as a guide. When student are ready, play the recording again and have them listen and check their work.

Post-listening tasks Put students into groups and tell them to talk about what they usually do on their birthday. Perhaps start them off by talking about what you usually do for your birthday.