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(2010 National) Grade 3, Lesson 4 - "Happy Birthday!"
« on: May 01, 2008, 03:32:46 pm »
Does anyone know of any websites (or any ideas that I can "borrow") for games for grade 3 Elementary?  I'm having a hard time thinking of a game for "Happy Birthday".

Any help is greatly appreciated.
« Last Edit: November 24, 2012, 11:54:57 am by taeyang »


Re: Elementary level games......
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2008, 10:30:29 am »
Not sure about too many birthday games but you could try:
-worksheets, (counting birthday items, wordfind)
-the birthday song, it's easy and catchy
-making a b-day card,   

Some games you can do with b-day flashcards are:
-memory game- display the flashcards and have the students remember them. Turn some over and have them try to remember the whole list.  Eventually you will have them all turned over and the students may or may not remember the whole list.  You can have teams compete against each other.   
-Alternative version, take a flashcard(s) away and they have to guess what card it is.  These even work well in my middle school classes for remembering vocab.
-not sure what your classroom is like or if running will work but you could hang flashcards in the classroom and call out one.  The students must race to slap the correct card.  Winner, gets a point for his/her team.
-alternative non-running version- involves a fly swatter and placing them on the board.  They have to hit the correct one fastest to get a point for their team. 

If you want to make it really fun, buy one of those colorful, plastic, squeaking hammers at homeplus.  You can bonk the losers on the head or have the winners bonk the losers on the head.  ( I miss hitting my kindergarten kids with the hammer, good times) 

one more stolen from Daveseslcafe.com
Birthday Bingo
(may need to simplify but could work) 
variation of bingo to practice ordinal numbers and to personalize the game for the students.
Pre-teach dates and ordinal numbers (get them to line up and rearrange them a couple of times!). In pairs, then to the class, students say their birthdays. Then have students come up to the board and write down their birthdays in number form (for example, 8/12/80). Students draw the grid of squares (3x3) and fill it with 9 birthdays of their choice. Then the teacher, or a student, reads out birthdays off the board in full (for example,'eighth of december nineteen-eighty'). The students cross off the birthdays they hear and first student with a correct row horizontally, diagonally or vertically wins.
You could also do this with times.
From Nic, Zhengzhou, China, courtesy of Dave's.
 
Cheers


Re: Elementary level games......
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2008, 09:14:25 am »
excellent stuff, thanks for your help.


Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2010, 03:01:26 pm »
Here's a matching game.  :P


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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2010, 08:04:42 am »
Thanks MokpoBrad, you're a heck of a guy!


Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2010, 09:16:31 am »
If you're doing a birthday class here is a pin the tail on the donkey game.


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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2010, 01:46:06 pm »
Sorry it's so late!   :o Here are the lesson plans for this lesson out of last year's book.  This might be helpful for some of you on the games hopefully. For Windows 97-2002 there are two parts because I couldn't combine them to fit.  For Windows 2007, just one.  Enjoy!
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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2010, 08:11:58 pm »
A presentation with vocab and examples and a fill-in worksheet for the first 2 dialogs.


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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2010, 03:22:47 pm »
Here are my 'lesson plans' / materials for this unit. Sorry the lesson plans aren't in a very good format, my school is happy for me to just have them as notes for myself.

And sorry there are only 2 - I don't know what happened to the other 2!

Sorry for any duplication of materials borrowed from other people on waygook, and thanks for originally posting them!


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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2011, 11:53:57 am »
Because Mediafire is gone, I'm gonna upload my stuff here :]

Some of it's mine, some of it I got from Mediafire and fixed, or some of it is just a blatant steal from mediafire ;].


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Re: Elementary level games......
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2011, 02:37:21 pm »
I played pass the parcel with my students, they had to say "This is for you, Happy Birthday" and "Thank you" when passing it.

They absolutely loved it!

It does mean you have to make a fair few parcels and invest in some small gifts/ candy and make sure u have lil candies for the ones who don't get to open the parcel! It was really fun though!


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This is for the green book with the globe on it
Worksheet with dialoge and some games


Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2011, 09:35:40 am »
heres a pic sheet that the kids can use to circle as they watch the mr bean birthday bear video.


  • greenapathy
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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2011, 02:18:18 pm »
thanks for the pin the tail on the donkey.  i did this last year and it was a total success.
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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2011, 12:08:24 pm »
here is a coloring activity for lesson one and a writing activity for the next lesson to review speaking and writing the key expressions.


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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2011, 03:14:52 pm »
Great version if you plan on teaching the traditional Birthday Song.

http://www.gfes.tpc.edu.tw/board/abc-song/birthday.swf


Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2011, 05:41:08 am »
Pin the tail on the donkey sounds fun. I wonder if a pinata type game would work too? If so, are there any cheap pinatas available in Seoul?


Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2011, 11:36:41 am »
When is your birthday ppt...good for conversation.


  • kat
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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2011, 02:06:45 pm »
Pictures for lesson 4


  • Nykeva
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Re: Grade 3 Lesson 4: Happy Birthday
« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2011, 01:50:56 pm »
well...here is a Hidden picture game for this Chapter.  Mainly Lesson 2 when they introduce the phrase "Is it a ____?  I got the template from www.eslgamesworld.c om