2024 UPDATE: I did a big refresh to everything! The cards are more polished, I added a normal birthday bingo card so they can do it twice--once with their own birthdays first, and then once more in true Animal Birthday Bingo fashion, and I also updated the powerpoint that explains how to play the game!
I liked the idea of doing a birthday bingo type of activity with my 5th graders, and put my own spin on it. I figure that they get enough practice saying their own birthdays throughout this unit so I decided to change it up and get everyone new ones instead. Everyone will become an Animal Crossing/Forest character!
Basically, how Birthday Bingo works is:
1) Give everyone a Bingo Card & worksheet. There are tiles for different months and ranges of days.
2) Let the students go around asking "When is your birthday?" (janken to determine who goes first), and then have them circle off tiles that match what their partner said--for example, their partner saying "My Birthday is May 5th" would allow them to circle the "May" and "1st-5th" tiles. Afterwards, they switch roles before finding new partners.
3) The student/s who can get the most bingos after some time (5~10 minutes) is the winner.
Animal Crossing Birthday Bingo uses character cards for the kids to follow instead of their own bdays, and each card has some extra info on it as well. For this activity's purpose they need to pay attention to the birthday, rock/paper/scissors symbol(which is the sign they're supposed to choose for janken first every time, though in the heat of the moment that doesn't always happen ..it's fine either way I guess lol), and what species their character is. The Bingo Card tiles also include "Met a human/bird/tanuki/etc!" and "rock/paper/scissors". In this new updated version I included the animal species icons on the bingo cards and the character cards to make it a bit easier for the kids(and teachers) to tell if they're not especially Animal Crossing savvy. I also included some blank cards to fill up the extra space. Given the number of cards, this activity as is would be best suited for large classes, though it is possible to use the cards in other ways besides bingo! (memory game, birthday lineups/arranging, etc)
I also put an optional guide for saying months & dates on the 2nd page of the worksheet that's basically the same as the cheat sheet that japanalt made but styled to fit the theme. It IS in katakana-English, which isn't ideal of course, but this does tend to be one of the more difficult topics for the students so I included it to make it easier for them to productively communicate and use for future reference if they keep it in their English folders. If you would rather not include it, just print/share the one-sided pdf version instead!
The included files are the actual card-sized character cards(design based on both the animal crossing amiibo cards and my previous activity lol), editable bingo card worksheets, and an extra powerpoint to serve as a visual guide to how it all works.
Amazing!! I love the sound effects, and how polished everything is! Great job!