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Sharing, caring
Students hear the story, "The Sand Castle" and answer a given set of questions. They discuss their answers and then perform a skit of the story, "The Sand Castle." Students practice and sing a new song about sharing and caring.
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Care of My Possessions
Students know the importance of caring for their possessions and pets and are able to empathize with other living creatures. They have a quote of the week to follow and have questions to reflect on after story times, a silent reflection...
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Being Grateful
Students consider feelings about the things we have. They look at their friends, their home, possessions, and things given to us and if we take them for granted, wish for something else, or are grateful for them. Students reflect on how...
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Not Hurting Others
Pupils are encouraged to use gentle persuation rather than bullying and recognize how their behavior affects others. Students reflect to themselves with provided questions, read a story and reflect about how the characters acted, and...
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Doing Your Best
Students awareness is raised when they reflect on the importance of working hard at home and at school. They develop responsibility and make the most of their abilities. A quote for the week is provided and discussed what it means. ...
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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Students identify thinking about the various groups and communities to which they belong and understand that families and friends should care for each other. Students discuss what the included quotation means; take part in a sing-along;...
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Social Studies: tolerance, Forgiveness, Understanding
Students examine the types and effects of bullying. In a silent sitting exercise, they reflect on a time they felt sorry for hurting someone and imagine how happy that person is to know they are sorry. Students participate in a...
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Masks and the Stories Behind Them
Students study the stories that go with masks from two cultures. They examine Native American masks used by tribes that lived in the Northeastern United States.. These include these Algonquian-speaking: Micmac, Pequot, Delaware....
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Tell Me A Foreign Language Story
Students practice retelling a simple story representative of the country where the target language is spoken: French, German, or Spanish. Given a worksheet with story details, students fill in missing details and rearrange details to...
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Friendship
Students explore the importance of being kind and loving to others. As a class, students read and discuss a story about friendship. They share experiences of friendship and sing songs about friends. In groups, students name qualities...
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Sharing Love
Students explore the expansion of love. They read a story about showing love and sing a song. Students draw a picture describing love. In a group activity, students participate in a "Greetings Dance." Students may bring pictures of...
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Care Of Myself
Students investigate the concept of self-esteem by making inquiry into the different kinds of exposure one allows into the mind to influence self development. The instructional activity uses key words to help them discuss different ideas...
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Self Acceptance
Students develop confidence about themselves. Students imagine they are a rubber ball and think about how strong they are inside themselves. They read a story about an elephant and a lion and reflect on questions provided. Finally,...
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It Is All About Love
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with developing the social skills of loving others in constructive ways. They participate in the reading of a story that illustrates the concept of love and its application. Then questions...
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Developing A Balanced Lifestyle
Students engage in a study of the character trait of peace and how it is useful to becoming part of a lifestyle. The lesson asks students to read a story that illustrates the concept that is followed by targeted questions to be answered.
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Caring
Students investigate the concept of developing the social skill of caring for others and self. The lesson includes a silent time of reflection on how one can care. Then students read a story that illustrates the concept of caring and...
National First Ladies' Library
Designing an Appalachian Folk Art Museum
Learners investigate the concepts related to the Appalachian area and the movement of Folk Art. They conduct research using a variety of resources and use the samples as inspiration for creating their own works of art. They could...
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Free Activity Schedule
In this reading a schedule worksheet, students read the information about free activities for various scheduled events. Students then fill in the table for the name of the activity, dates of the activities, and time of the activities.
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Traditions
Students study the vocabulary of philanthropy and the tradition in their community of altruism. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students discuss traditions and philanthropy. They create a class dictionary of...
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My Digital Story
Students write and direct digital stories to be presented to their classmates. In this digital stories lesson plan, students can use camcorders, microphones, headphones, storyboards, and more. Students edit their story and present it to...
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Final Performance of a Play
Second graders study theatre by designing a play, studying actors, and work in partners to create a story to perform. For this theatre study lesson, 2nd graders discuss theatre as live theatre, television, film, and radio. Students act...
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Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes
In this Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes worksheet, students read the book Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Out and About: Railways
Students explore British Railway history. In this railway instructional activity, students may visit the Natural Railway Museum, the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, or Steam - Museum of the Great Western Railway online or in-person...
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Acadie -- Alive and Well!
Pupils examine the culture of Acadian through the paintings of Robert Harris. Using the internet, they read examples of Acadian history through primary source documents. As a class, they continue to share stories orally by pretending to...