Lesson 2: Full Hearts
I. Objectives
Students will be able to take turns and share.
Sub-objectives:
Students will be able to identify how feelings relate to respect and disrespect.
Students will be able to participate in a group setting.
Students will be able to participate in decision making in the classroom.
VA Standards of Learning: Social Studies
K.8 The student will demonstrate that being a good citizen involves:
a) taking turns and sharing;
e) practicing honesty, self-control, and kindness to others;
f) participating in decision making in the classroom;
g) participating successfully in group settings;
VA Standards of Learning: English
K.1 The student will demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
a) listen to a variety of literary forms; including stories and poems.
K.2 The student will expand understanding and use of word meanings.
a) increase listening and speaking vocabularies
c) use words to describe/ name people, places, and things.
K.3 The student will build oral communication skills.
a) express ideas in complete sentences.
c) begin to follow implicit rules for conversation, including taking turns and
staying on topic.
d) listen and speak in informal conversations with peers and adults.
e) participate in group and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
g) follow one- and two-step directions.
K.8 The student will expand vocabulary.
a) discuss meanings of words.
K.9 The student will demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts.
b) relate previous experiences to what is read.
d) begin to ask and answer questions about what is read.
g) discuss characters, setting, and events.
VA Standards of Learning: Math
Probability and Statistics: Focus: Data Collection and Display
K.14 The student will display gathered data in object graphs, picture graphs, and
tables, and will answer questions related to the data.
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra: Focus: Attributes and Patterning
K.15 The student will sort and classify objects according to attributes.
VA Standards of Learning: Science
Earth Resources
K.11 The student will investigate and understand that materials can be reused,
recycled, and conserved.
a) materials and objects can be used over and over again
II. Materials
III. Procedures for Learning Activities
Introduction (5 Minutes)
Instructional Strategies (15 minutes)
Students will be able to take turns and share.
Sub-objectives:
Students will be able to identify how feelings relate to respect and disrespect.
Students will be able to participate in a group setting.
Students will be able to participate in decision making in the classroom.
VA Standards of Learning: Social Studies
K.8 The student will demonstrate that being a good citizen involves:
a) taking turns and sharing;
e) practicing honesty, self-control, and kindness to others;
f) participating in decision making in the classroom;
g) participating successfully in group settings;
VA Standards of Learning: English
K.1 The student will demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
a) listen to a variety of literary forms; including stories and poems.
K.2 The student will expand understanding and use of word meanings.
a) increase listening and speaking vocabularies
c) use words to describe/ name people, places, and things.
K.3 The student will build oral communication skills.
a) express ideas in complete sentences.
c) begin to follow implicit rules for conversation, including taking turns and
staying on topic.
d) listen and speak in informal conversations with peers and adults.
e) participate in group and partner discussions about various texts and topics.
g) follow one- and two-step directions.
K.8 The student will expand vocabulary.
a) discuss meanings of words.
K.9 The student will demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts.
b) relate previous experiences to what is read.
d) begin to ask and answer questions about what is read.
g) discuss characters, setting, and events.
VA Standards of Learning: Math
Probability and Statistics: Focus: Data Collection and Display
K.14 The student will display gathered data in object graphs, picture graphs, and
tables, and will answer questions related to the data.
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra: Focus: Attributes and Patterning
K.15 The student will sort and classify objects according to attributes.
VA Standards of Learning: Science
Earth Resources
K.11 The student will investigate and understand that materials can be reused,
recycled, and conserved.
a) materials and objects can be used over and over again
II. Materials
- Chrysanthemum DVD by Kevin Henkes, narrated by Meryl Streep (available through Scholastic Storybook Tellers)
- Completed "Respect and Feelings" Chart on Posterboard
- One construction paper heart (cut from 8.5 x 11'' paper) for every two students
- Adhesive bandage with student name (one per student)
- Tape
- Promethean Board/ Internet Access
III. Procedures for Learning Activities
Introduction (5 Minutes)
- As students work on morning activities, draw attention to a child who is conducting him/herself as a respectful student bringing attention to what he/she is doing to be respectful.
- Link: Address students, "(Insert student's name) is showing respect for others and our classroom right now. Who can tell me what respect is? By show of hands, who enjoyed the book Chrysanthemum that we read in class yesterday?"
- Call on a student and ask why he or she enjoyed the book.
- Ask students, "Who can tell me what the book was about."
- Call on a student raising his/her hand and ask probing questions as necessary until successfully reviewing the book.
- Ask the class, "We learned about two big words yesterday, can anyone tell me what those words were?" Guide students to say 'respect' and 'disrespect.'
- Ask the class the following questions: "Who can tell me what respect is? Who can tell me what disrespect is? Can anyone give me an example of respect from the story Chrysanthemum? Can anyone give me an example of disrespect from the story Chrysanthemum? Can anyone give me an example of how we respect each other? Can anyone give me an example of how we respect our classroom? Can anyone share an example of how we respect our Earth/ the outdoors?"
Instructional Strategies (15 minutes)
- Ask students to come to the carpet and sit with a buddy. (Help pair students together if necessary).
- Address students, "I will be passing out a heart to each pair of students. Who can tell me what a heart means?" Guide students to draw the connection between a heart and love/ care/ respect.
- Ask students, "When Chrysanthemum's parents told her that her name was 'beautiful, precious, and priceless' do you think her heart felt big and full? (Show students a flat construction paper heart.) "When the girls at school made fun of Chrysanthemum's name, how do you think her heart started to feel? (Slowly start to crumple part of the construction paper heart.) Call on students to share.
- Ask students, "How do you feel, or how does your heart feel when someone disrespects you? If an older brother or sister takes away your toy or calls you a mean name, how do you feel? Does it sort of make your heart feel like this? (continue to crumple paper heart)" Call on students to share.
- Address the class, "Today we are going to watch the 'movie' Chrysanthemum. Working with your partner, you are going to crumple the paper heart a little bit every time you hear someone showing disrespect to Chrysanthemum. Once you've crumpled the heart a little, pass it to your partner, it will be your partners turn next. Pass the heart back and forth until the end of the movie, crumpling it a little each time you hear Chrysanthemum being disrespected. When you hear Chrysanthemum being respected, uncrumple the heart."
- Model this activity briefly with the kindergarten assistant or a student.
- Ask the class, "Who can explain the instructions to me again?"
- Reword or explain the instructions again as needed emphasizing the importance of taking turns and sharing.
- Start the movie:
- As students begin to watch the narration of Chrysanthemum, observe and assess their ability to follow one- and two-step directions. Pause the video in the first instance Chrysanthemum is disrespected and ask students if this is a time when they should be crumpling the paper heart.
- Guide students as necessary during this activity.
- Observe and assess students' ability to recognize respect and disrespect and to share and take turns.
After the movie:
- Ask students to lift up their hearts, "Look around at our hearts now. How do they look differently than they did when we started? Why?" Call on students.
- Ask students, "Which heart would you prefer, a full heart that has not been crumpled, or a crumpled heart?" Raise both a flat, uncrumpled construction paper heart and a crumpled up construction paper heart.
- "Why would you prefer the flat, full heart?" Call on two students to explain.
- Pull out the "Respect and Feelings" chart from the previous lesson.
- Ask students where they would put a full, uncrumpled heart on the chart and why. (Tape the full, uncrumpled heart in the "Respect" column.)
- Ask students where they would put the crumpled heart on the chart and why. (Tape the crumpled heart in the "Disrespect" column.)
- Ask students, "What would you do if one of our friends in class had a crumpled heart, or was sad because someone was disrespectful? What would you want one of your friends to do if you had a crumpled heart or felt sad because someone was disrespectful to you?" Ask students to turn and talk/ share with their partner what they would do. (60 seconds)
- Call on students to share their responses.
- Commend students on their ability to show respect.
IV. Summary
- Emphasize that we can all show respect in lots of different ways to ourselves, to others, to property, to our classroom, to our school, to our family, to our Earth.
- Ask students to turn and talk with their partner and come up with an example of how they can show respect in any of these areas.
- With the kindergarten assistant, walk around to each pair of students and ask for their example. When they provide an appropriate example of how to display respect, give them their bandages to place on their heart.
- Ask them to place their heart on the front table and return to their seats.
- Once all students have completed this activity and are seated at their tables, ask for students to share their examples with the class. (Individually, when they've been called on.)
- When one student gives an example, ask the class, "What or who is (insert student's name) respecting when he/she does this?" Provide options for students as needed, "Are they respecting others? Property? The School? The Earth? Etc.?"
- Close lesson by reminding students they can show respect at all times, in everything they do.
V. Extensions and connections to other lessons
Math: Continue to teach students how to sort and classify objects and pictures
according to attributes. Teacher will continue to refer back to the "Feelings and
Respect" chart as an example of how to sort and gather data in a table.
Science: Explain to students that the Earth is the property of
everyone and teach the class different actions we can take to show respect for
this property. Examples include recycling, not littering, and reusing items.
Language Arts: Invite students to explore Mary Small's books: Being Fair, a
Book about Fairness, Being Responsible, A Book about Responsibility, Being a
Good Citizen, A Book about Citizenship, and Being Respectful, A Book about
Respectfulness.
Social Studies: Invite parents of students to share with the class, or email the
teacher, how people in their culture show respect for one another. Lead the class
in a discussion of how other cultures are the same and different to American
culture.
VI. Assessment
As kindergarten students develop themselves as good citizens throughout the school year, the teacher will formatively assess their behavior daily with a checklist.