Birthday Soup

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Students recognize and read their birth date when it is written.

OBJECTIVE

Students Will:

1. Make a picture of a birthday soup bowl that includes the month, day and year of their birthday.
2. Memorize a poem.

MATERIALS

1. Book: Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak
2. Class set, various colors, construction paper rectangles (4" x 7")
3. Class set, yellow construction paper rectangles (2" x 6")
4. Rice
5. White Glue
6. Scissors

SET UP AND PREPARE

1. Using the computer, print out each child's birthday date. Print their name in regular size type and their birth date one inch high. This is a good format to use, May 12, 1997.
2. Cut yellow 2" x 6" rectangles (1 per student).
3. Cut various colors of construction paper into 4" x 7" rectangles.

DIRECTIONS
Step 1: Read Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak.

Step 2: Have the students learn the poem for their birthday month. Have the students recite it independently.

Step 3: Make a birthday soup bowl out of 4" x 7" construction paper. Cut bottom corners and points off to make a bowl shape. Take yellow 2" x 6" rectangle, and cut all the corners off. Glue it to the top of the bowl shape. The view is looking down at the top of the soup in the bowl.

Step 4: Children glue rice to the soup.

Step 5: Children glue computer print out of the birthday date onto the bowl.

Step 6. Display bowls with birthday pictures and stories.

LESSON EXTENSION

1. Play Greg and Steve's, We All Live Together CD. Teach "The Months of the Year" song in English and Spanish.
2. Graph class birthdays.
3. Compare how many days in each month. Use poem: 30 days has September April, June and November.All the rest have 31 except poor February that has 28 and on leap year 29.

ASSESS STUDENTS

1. Use teacher observation to determine if the students were able to recognize and read their birthday date.
2. Are they learning the names of the months?

ASSIGNMENTS
At home, find your birthday on a calendar. Show someone in your family that you know when your birthday is.

EVALUATE THE LESSON

1. Was there enough time?
2. Were the students successful or frustrated?
3. Was there anyone who could not memorize his or her birthday poem?

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