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How many birthdays?

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Beyond Living Memory: Commemorating History The Monarch's Official Birthday

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Objectives

History

  • Discover events beyond living memory that are significant nationally and are commemorated through anniversaries.
  • Develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time.

Maths

  • Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years.
  • Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables.
  • Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity.
  • Ask and answer questions about totaling and comparing categorical data.

Lesson Planning

Sing about months of the year, compile a block graph of class birthdays, and enjoy a birthday story. Which real person has 2 birthdays?!

Teaching Objectives
To share children’s birth dates and mark their year of birth on class time line.
To learn the months of the year; to compile a simple block graph.

Children will:

  • Learn the months of the year.
  • Compile a class block graph.
  • Collect data to compile individual block graphs.

Provided Resources

  • How to play the birthday islands game
  • Months of the year flashcards

You Will Need

  • Large squared paper for prepared block graph
  • Sticky notes
  • Block graph template for each child see weblinks
  • Clip boards
  • Scrap paper

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