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Have the students sing songs listing the days of the week and the months of the year. Dr. Jean in Spanish (ole ole) and José Luis Orozco have great ones for the purpose. Creator: N/A Resources and Links: |
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Every time class meets, go over what the day is, what tomorrow will be and what yesterday was. Do the same with the current, future, and past month. |
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Get a group (or groups) of 7 or 12 students. Each student gets a sign with a day of the week or a month of the year on it. They have to put themselves in the correct order without using any English. You can have one group do it in front of the class, or have several groups in the class compete to do it the fastest and/or most accurate, with any left-over students being the "judges." Creator: Melissa MB Wilkins (also used by other teachers) |
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Give students signs for the days of the week and activities that go with them their weekly special schedule, for example) or months of the year and special events that go with those months (sticking with holidays that don't change is best, so religious holidays tied to a lunar calendar that change months on the solar calendar from year to year such as Easter and Ramadan aren't good for this, unless you determine that they USUALLY fall in a particular month and tell your students to use that as a guide). Have the students pair up without using any English. You can also have students with month signs group with students with the correct season signs. Ideas for the months in the USA:
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Most students don't know what day of the week on which they were born. Give students a perpetual calendar or use online tools to have students determine what day of the week on which they were born and share the results with the class. |
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Give students or groups of students examples of calendars from different years. Have them discover patterns and rules for interesting things that happen with days and dates from year to year like:
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The names of most of the days of the week come from the names of celestial objects. Investigate this with the students |
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Have students divide a paper or posterboard into 12 spaces. In each space, they write the name of one of the months. Students put a date in each space, writing the date out in words (ex: "el ocho de agosto") and illustrating the event that the date represents (with their own drawings, clip art, etc.). Students should NOT put any event name in words, so they do not have to worry about translating it into Spanish. The focus is on writing dates in the correct order. Students can use family dates, holidays they already know, or can research dates on the internet or in reference books(such as National Doughnut Day). Submitted by: Diane Williams, Cannon School, Concord, NC e-mail: dwilliams@cannonschool.org Shared at FLANC 2008 Conference -- NNELL Swap Shop |
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