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Grade Level: second grade Unit: Time Assignment type: Calendar Lesson objectives (include 2 or 3): To teach the names of the days of the week in order.To introduce the names of the months of the year.To teach the relationship between days, weeks, months and years. Time required to complete this lesson: three days Title of lesson: Telling Time: The Calendar

Resources/materials needed: The Poem "The Months" By Sara Coleridge, computer, paper, writing material, internet

 Description of lesson

Discussion: Discuss how a calendar can help you remember important dates. As you page through a calendar saying the name of each month, children stand if their birthday is in that month. For each month ask each child who is standing the date of his or her birthday and circle that date on the calendar. ask questions about your findings. Discuss today's date and find it on the calendar. When is your birthday? Does anyone in class have a birthday this month? How many birthdays in January? How many birthdays on Friday in April? How many kids have birthday on same date in May? How many have birthday in same week in June. What is the first month, last month what comes after March and so on.What is your favorite holiday? In what month does it occur? 1. Discuss the calendar's days of the week an months of the year. Note any special dates in each month. Have each student make an illustrated monthly calendar. [|Calendar Template] 2. Have students make a days of the week train or months of the year. Students draw and cut out railroad cars. Each car is then labeled with a day of the week. Students take turns putting the cars in order. [|Days of the Week Wordhunt] - [|Months of the Year Wordhunt] 3. Construct a class calendar. Assign each student a number from 1-31, depending on the number of days in the month. Give each student a 6 inch square of paper. The student is responsible for decorating his/her day of the month. Display the calendar on a large bulletin board. 4. Play Calendar Cards. Prepare a deck of twelve matching games cards. On one card write the name of a month, on the matching card draw a simple picture related to that month; e.g. Feb. Valentine. The game is played by dealing out all the cards. Players put aside cards that match. They take turns drawing a card from the other players' hands. The first one to match all his/her cards is the winner. 5. Share the poem with students. They will be watching an animoto video

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Assignment (homework or in-class: this is how the learner will practice the learning that has just occurred): The Students will watch a video with explains how Sara Coleridge sees the month. The students will be able to create their own video on how they see the months. They will gather pictures of what is going on in that month. The picture could be someones birthday, a holiday or a vacation spot that they go to. If the child can not find a picture they may draw the picture or find a picture online that represents what they think of for that month. The students will be able to look at the year and realize the changes to occur throughout the year or should I say over time.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: Computers, internet, google images, animoto.com,

The students will be able to reflect back over the year. By using google images they will be able to find exactly what they want to represent for that month. Animoto provides a way for the students to put their "calendar" together.