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Hands are for Helping (Responsible Personal Conduct)

Lesson 5:

From Unit Growing as a Group

Lesson

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Academic Standards

Philanthropy Framework

Kindergarten-2nd Grade

Subjects:

Language Arts, Library / Technology, Philanthropy and Social Studies

Key Words/Concepts click to view

ELA:	Brainstorming; Journaling; Prior Knowledge; Reflection
PHIL:	9/11genOn; Caring/Sharing; Common Good; Cooperate; School Climate
SOC:	10 genOn; Communities; Good Character; Interdependence; Personal Virtue; Rules; Values

Purpose:

To encourage students to share supplies and to work cooperatively together in the classroom while completing an art activity.

Notes for Instruction:

This lesson may be taught at the very beginning of the school year. Explain that being in a classroom is different from being at home and that we will need to develop different ways of doing things in school.

Duration:

Thirty minutes

Objectives:

To engage students in a task, which will help them to understand that sharing and working together in school will make our school time more pleasant and productive.

Materials:

Construction paper
Pencils, crayons, markers
Scissors
Journals

Instructional Procedure(s):

Anticipatory Set:

Ask students to think of some ways that they can use their hands for sharing. Accept all reasonable responses and write them on the chalkboard. Read responses to the class.

Remind students of the lesson about listening skills and explain that sharingis another skill that will help us all get along in the classroom.
Explain that we are going to use our hands to help each other complete an artwork activity.
Pair students up in groups of two or three.
Instruct students that we are going to make outlines of our hands.
Model the activity for the children by choosing a child, having him or her place a hand on the construction paper, and trace around each hand of the child on the construction paper.
Then have the small groups trace around each other's hands.
Instruct students to cut out the tracings of their own hands.
Instruct students to glue their decorated hands onto the construction paper.
When all hands are glued ask students to name ways that they will use their hands to help others.
Teacher will write what each student says on his or her own hand paper.
Students will copy the words from their art work into their journals and illustrate.
Teacher will post the artwork around the classroom.

Teacher Note: This activity can be expanded to form a class tree. Each student can have one hand traced onto green paper, cut it out and curl up the fingers around a pencil and then glue it (pyramid shaped) onto a large paper and form a tree for the classroom.

Assessment:

Teacher observation. Teacher will note whether children were able to work cooperatively together to trace the hands. Teacher will ask students to tell ways that they have used their hands to help someone.