INTERMIDIATE GRADE

Topic: Using a Calendar- Months of the year

Subject:Mathematics

Grade level: 1

Duration: 90 min.

Objectives:
At the end of the session, the student will be able to:
 Name and tell the months of the year in the right order
 Trace and write the months of the year.
 Show appreciation of being able to recognize months of the year

Prerequisite Concepts/Skills:
 Counting and Enumerating

New Concepts?Skills:
Define month, The months are a measure of time used with calendars corresponding to the lenght of time
required by the Moon to revolve once around the Earth.

Materials:
 Calendar
 Flash card
 Activity Sheets
 Pocket Chart

References:
 PELC Teacher’s Guide in Mathematics 1
 Google

LESSON PROPER

ACTIVITY DURATION TEACHER ROLE STUDENTS ROLE

 Prayer
Before we start our discussion, let us pray Students
first Amen!
Amen!

Greetings
Good morning ma’am
Good morning class! How are you today?
We are okay today ma’am
Checking of the Attendance
Yes ma’am
May I request everyone to please say
present as I call your name!
No absent for today’s class. Good job!
A. Priming Activating
Knowledge Learning
Task 1-Review Before we start our lesson for today, let us
review your lesson yesterday. We have studied about the days of
What have you studied yesterday? the week

There are 7 days in a week.

How many days are there in a week? So, The days of the week are Monday,
can you tell me what are the days of the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
week? Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Learning Task-2 (Write the days of the week in order and let
Motivation the pupils read them twice.)
(The pupils will answer the
When is your birthday? questions and share their own
When is Christmas celebrated? experiences.)
B. Development When is our town and barangay fiesta
Activities celebrated?

Learning Task-4
1. Presentation

I will read you a story about a Grade 1 pupil

named Allan. Listen as I read the story.

After the end of classes on March, Allan

was excited because next month, he will go
to Manila to spend his vacation at his
cousin’s place. When the month of April
came, he went Manila. There, he visits his
cousin John. John take him to the park and
they also played at the playgrounds there.
They also shop at the mall. He did not
notice that it is already the end of the April
and he has to go home.
He went back home on May. He was so
excited and he can’t wait to tell his friends
what he experience during his vacation in
 Manila. Allan
March
(after reading, ask the pupils) He went on vacation
He went to Manila on April
Who was the Grade one pupil in the story? May.
2. Posing a Problem
When did their classes ended?
What did he do after their classes ended?
When did he went to Manila? (let the pupils think and solve the
When did he went back home? problem)
3. Discussion

In the story, Allan was excited after classes

because he will go for a vacation next (the pupils summarize the story in
month after the end of classes. So what sequence emphasizing the months
month would Allan go for a vacation? mentioned on it)

In the story, Allan’s classes ended on March

then he went to Manila on April then
stayed there for one month so he went  January
home on May.  February
(write the month on the board)  March
 April
What other months do we have?
 May
Can you give one?
 June
 July
 August
 September
 October
 November
 December

(count together)
How many months do we have in all? How There are twelve months in all.
many months are there in a year? Let us Therefore, there are twelve
count. months in a year.

Let us arrange the months of the year in the (Read the months in a right order
right order. (Let the pupils arrange the after arranging them.)
months in a pocket chart while asking them
specific celebrations to guide them to
4. Group Activity
arrange the months in the right order. Ask
(Let the children observe the
questions which relate to their individual
calendar)
experience.)
(Pupil’s answer)
(Show a calendar, this is where we see the
dates and months in a year. What do we
call this again? What did you observe? How
 do we use a calendar?
(let the children suggest standards.
Then post a chart with written
(Divide the class into 3 groups.) standards then let the children
Now class, I will group you into 3, We will read it.)
have a group activity. But first, what should
we do if we will have a group activity? What Standards to be followed in Group
are the standards in doing group activity? Activity
 Read and follow the directions
carefully.
 Work quietly
 Cooperate with the group.
 Maintain cleanliness and
5. Generalization orderliness in your working
area.

(Each member should cooperate

6. Individual Activity with the group)
(Each group will have a set of flash cards
with the twelve months. In 10 minutes,
(Let the group read their work in
they will arrange the cards of months in
7. Assimilation front of the class.)
order.)
(Checking of the work of each group)

There are twelve months in a year. The first

month is January, February, March, April,
May, June, July, August, September, (Guide the class in enumerating
October, December. the months of the year without
IV. EVALUATION looking at the calendar or chart.)
Trace the name of each month. Then write
the month again on the right side.
(Give the class an individual activity sheet) (Pupils will do the activity)

Board work: 1.New Year’s Day (January)

Write which month does each holiday 2. All Saint’s Day (November)
celebrated. 3. Christmas Day (December)
1. New Year’s Day 4. Good Friday (February)
2. All Saint’s Day 5. Independence Day (June)
3. Christmas Day
4. Good Friday
5. Independence Day (Answer)

V. Assignment 1. 6 June
Direction: Arrange the months of the year 2. 12 December
in order by numbering it from 1 to 12. 3. 1 January
4. 7 July
1. June
5. 11 November
2. December
6. 2 February
3. January
7. 3 March
4. July 8. 8 August
5. November 9. 9 September
6. February 10. 4 April
7. March 11. 5 May
8. August 12. 10 October
9. September
10. April
11. May
12. October

Read books on months of the year. Identify

how many days are there in each of the
following months.

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

Prepared by:
Jaima Rasad Ottom