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TEACHER Sue McCosh
YEAR
1-2 |
LEVEL
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DURATION
2-3 weeks |
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Strand Achievement Objectives to be Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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Culture and Heritage
Features of the culture and heritage of their own and other groups
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Students will be able to:
- Describe how they and other groups celebrate birthdays.
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Culture and Heritage
Customs and traditions associated with participation in cultural activities
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Students will be able to:
- Explain some birthday customs and traditions.
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Supporting Achievement Objectives
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Learning Outcomes
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Time, Continuity and Change
Important events in their own lives
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Students will be able to:
Explain why their birthday is an important event in their own lives.
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Processes
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Learning Outcomes
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Inquiry
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Carry out an inquiry and communicate findings.
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Requirements
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| Settings: | New Zealand, Global |
| Perspectives: | Future, Multicultural |
| Essential Learning About New Zealand Society (ELANZS): |
Characteristics, roles and cultural expressions of the various groups living in New Zealand.
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Assessment
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Birthday Booklet
Children select and explain at least five customs and traditions associated with birthdays.
They compile a birthday booklet that provides an action plan for organising
a birthday party. The booklet should include explanations of at least five
different customs and traditions. (For example: party themes, cakes and
candles, making wishes, cards, food, games, presents, decorations and
songs.)
Assessment Schedule
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TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your
students, and to fit the time available:
- Starter Activity: Celebrations
What are your families' special days?
Brainstorm together
to find the important occasions in their families.
Have a variety of cards or picture clues showing different
celebrations if they need motivation.
Give children blank cards and ask them to draw a special occasion that
they have been a part of. Some may be able to do a couple of cards.
Share the different events they have been to as a class. Hopefully birthdays
will be the most prominent celebration!
Group the cards together as a class and display the categories they have
established on the wall.
- Birthday Calendar
When is your birthday?
Fill in a class calendar with the children. Compare each month and talk
about the events that happen throughout the year. (For example: Christmas,
Waitangi Day, Easter, ANZAC Day Queen's Birthday, Labour Day and Guy Fawkes)
Find out what other events have happened in history on
this day.
- Family traditions
What happens in your family on birthdays?
Give children My Birthday sheet and ask
them to fill in as many activities or things that they can remember from
previous birthdays. Bring together and discuss the similarities and differences
amongst the class.
Record these on a Similarities and Differences sheet. Ask children to
think of ways in which these things could be grouped. Why do you do these
things?
- Looking Back
What happens on Mum and Dad's birthday? How is this different from yours?
What do you do for them? Record ideas on sheet.
Inquiry
Ask questions and gather information
What were birthdays like when Mum and Dad were little? Ask questions at
home about what they did on their birthdays when they were five and ten.
Ask about the types of food, presents, games, songs themes, cakes and cards.
Share ideas with the rest of the class. Does it make a difference how
old your parents are?
What were birthdays like when your grand parents were little? Ask questions
to find out what they did on their birthdays when they were five and six.
Share ideas with class.
Shared
Reading
Read the School Journal story, Birthday Party Part 2 No 3 1995, by
L Rasmussen
Sort Information
Construct a timeline as a class showing what birthday activities occurred
in different decades and the type of presents, food and games that took
place.
Communicate findings
Draw a cartoon strip (with at least three frames) that describes how different
groups of people celebrate birthdays.
- Birthdays around the world
Self assessment sheet
Read about some of the different ways children celebrate birthdays around
the world. In pairs or small groups, children draw a picture of three of the
different ways people celebrate birthdays. Then they describe the custom by
writing or making an oral statement (for the teacher to write down). Display
the drawings and statements on the wall and link them to the parts of the
world they relate to on a large world map.
Birthday
traditions around the world (PDF)
- Extra special
What are our extra special birthdays? Focus on turning 5, 21, 50 and 100.
Why do people make a big deal about turning these ages?
Bring photos to school of birthday celebrations you have been to. Create
a display with these photos and write the reasons for the celebrations next
to them. Children may have their own that they can bring. Children record
what they think they might be doing when they reach these ages.
- Birthday Booklet
Assessment Activity
Children select and explain at least five customs and traditions associated
with birthdays. They compile a birthday booklet that provides an action plan
for organising a birthday party. The booklet should include explanations of
at least five different customs and traditions. (For example: party themes,
cakes and candles, making wishes, cards, food, games, presents, decorations
and songs.
- Hold a class party
First, discuss your plans with the class. Where possible, children work in
pairs and choose one thing they could make to contribute to the party. Aim
to include some of the new customs and traditions they have learned about
during the unit. Then have a great time!
RESOURCES
Print
- Mailangi, Elenga. A Birthday Cake for Salote, School Journal, Part 1 No 4 2001
A story from Tonga
- MacKinder, G. The Birthday Bird School Journal, Part 4 No 2 1988
A bird is the last thing Mrs Jarvis wants as a birthday present...
- Rasmussen, L. Birthday Party School Journal Part 2 No 3 1995
Me and Boysie meet our ninety year old uncle at a large family gathering on a marae.
- Raerino, K. Birthday Party School Journal Part 2 No 2 1997
This was going to be the best birthday ever. Tana was ten years old.
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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