lesson plan for beginners 060119, repeated on 060121

Display ordinal numbers to thirty-first
Days of the week and
calendar on board
cut out calendar numbers
blank strips of paper,
pencils,
lap boards

introduce today, tomorrow, yesterday
students draw date numbers from hat

Groups of three people.= draw numbers.

Today is the nineteenth.
Yesterday was the eighteenth.
Tomorrow will be the twentieth.

days of the week - computer song
sing song

every trio writes a student’s name and puts in hat
I draw from hat and pick a day of the week on calendar and call on student

Tomorrow will be Friday.
Today is Thursday.
Yesterday was Wednesday.

Writing activity
break into (heterogeneous) groups with volunteers in separate classrooms (volunteer take white board and marker to write names of the days)
Volunteers - have them write name and date on worksheet and complete
check to see that they write today’s date correctly (month first)
Have students read responses aloud when finished