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Lesson: |
Students will: |
| 1. How Do We Get Along in School? |
Discover how talking, listening, taking turns, and sharing help them create a picture with a partner-and help them get along in school. |
| 2. Why Is It Important to Learn from Each Other? |
Practice using important social skills, such as appropriate ways to greet, talk, and listen to each other, to explore their similarities and differences, and to celebrate their unique talents. |
| 3. Why Do Schools Have Rules? |
Play a game without rules to discover why rules are needed-in games and in school. |
| 4. Who Helps Us at School? |
Learn about the typical duties of a school teacher, principal, secretary, and custodian, and then act them out. |
| 5. How Are We Good Helpers at School? |
Explore four situations they might encounter at school and make choices and act out how they can be good helpers. Students learn they can make a difference when they help others, respect property, are positive, and solve problems. |
| 6. What Is a Map? |
Learn what a map is and what its basic elements are by creating a map of a story about an escaped mouse. Afterward, students create a map of their own. |
| 7. What Was School Like Long Ago? |
Work in groups to hypothesize how specific historical school and classroom artifacts were used in the past. Then they compare schools long ago with schools today. |
| 8. What Groups Do We Belong To? |
Identify common groups to which they belong and categorize different types of groups, such as school, family, and community groups. |
| 9. How Are Families Special? |
Write a "My Family Is Special" book about their family that describes family members, their favorite place at home, and favorite things their family likes to do. Then students share their books to see that all families are special in different ways. |
| 10. What Do Families Need and Want? |
Work in groups to explore the economic concept of needs and wants by creating camping triaramas that depict what families might need and want on a camping trip. |
| 11. How Do Family Members Care for Each Other? |
Categorize pictures that illustrate the different responsibilities family members have and create a family job chart that explains the different ways their own family members help out at home. |
| 12. How Do Families Change? |
View and discuss images depicting changing families in order to understand factors that have caused these changes. |
| 13. What Are Family Traditions? |
Experience traditions from different cultures and create a quilt square that illustrates their own traditions. |
| 14. What Do Good Neighbors Do? |
Create posters that exemplify qualities of a good neighbor |
