Wednesday, September 28, 2016

What is Bullying?

Oct 10

Leaves/Hands for the mentioned Unity Tree will be delivered to your classrooms on October 10. Please have the lesson completed and the leaves/hands done with your students by October 14. We will send an aide around on the 14th if we haven't received your bundle of leaves/hands back by then.

Please deliver the following lesson - this will also be emailed to you, for your convenience.












Here are some examples of how our Unity Trees turned out. Thank you for all your help!!!














Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Friendship

Sept 26


Step 1: “A friend is a gift you give yourself!” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Friends are……”

“Friends are important to probably everyone. Some people like to have a lot for friends, some people only want a few. Some people consider people that they only know casually to be friends, other expect to be very close to call someone a friend. Some of us make friends easily, for other it is difficult to make friends.”

“Friendships are not necessarily equally reciprocal. That means that often a friendship is more important to one friend than to the other, and often one person gives more to a friendship than another.”

Step 2: Divide the class into groups.

Step 3: Ask your students,
1.     What qualities do you look for in a friend?
2.     What qualities are important in a friendship?
Make a list of the qualities. Have them rank the top 5 qualities as a group

Step 4: Discussion questions;
1.     Was it easy or difficult to decide which five qualities were most important? Why?
2.     Did males and females choose friend qualities for different reasons?
3.     Which qualities are especially difficult to find in a friend?
4.     What desirable qualities do you bring to friendships?

Step 5: To have good friends you must be a good friend.
Pass out bookmarks and go through it as a class. 
(Bookmarks will be provided in stacks of 35.)