Lesson 4: Gingerbread Citizen
I. Objectives
Students will be able to identify what being a good citizen involves.
VA Standards of Learning: Social Studies
The student will demonstrate that being a good citizen involves
a) taking turns and sharing;
b) taking responsibility for certain classroom chores;
c) taking care of personal belongings and respecting what belongs to others;
d) following rules and understanding the consequence of breaking rules'
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: Visual Arts
K.2 The student will express ideas and feelings through the creation of works of
art.
K.16 The student will discuss and explain ideas and expressions in personal works
of art.
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.
b) Participate in a variety of oral language activities including choral and echo
speaking and recitation of rhymes and stories with repeated word order
patterns.
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 print in manuscript:
b) Print his/her first and last names.
II. Materials
Students will be able to identify what being a good citizen involves.
VA Standards of Learning: Social Studies
The student will demonstrate that being a good citizen involves
a) taking turns and sharing;
b) taking responsibility for certain classroom chores;
c) taking care of personal belongings and respecting what belongs to others;
d) following rules and understanding the consequence of breaking rules'
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: Visual Arts
K.2 The student will express ideas and feelings through the creation of works of
art.
K.16 The student will discuss and explain ideas and expressions in personal works
of art.
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.
b) Participate in a variety of oral language activities including choral and echo
speaking and recitation of rhymes and stories with repeated word order
patterns.
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 print in manuscript:
b) Print his/her first and last names.
II. Materials
- The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray
- Gingerbread Citizen Template
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- Respectful Citizens Cutout Sheet
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- Scissors for each student
- Gluestick
- Pencils
- Crayons/ Colored Pencils
- Completed "Feelings and Respect" Chart from previous lesson
- Smart/ Promethean Board with blank screen showing heading, "Good Citizens..."
III. Procedures for Learning Activities
Introduction (10 minutes)
Instructional Strategies (20 minutes)
2. Help clean up by placing scraps in the recycle bin, trash in the garbage,
returning materials, etc.
3. Wait quietly on the main carpet.
Introduction (10 minutes)
- (Each student table should have two communal caddies containing crayons, scissors, glue, and pencils prior to beginning this lesson.)
- Hook: Teacher will read aloud The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray to the whole class. (Whole class is on main carpet.)
- The teacher will encourage students to chorally repeat rhymes used in the story.
- Link: Teacher will ask students, "When the students welcomed the gingerbread man back to the class, how do you think he felt? Did he feel respect?"
- Refer to "Feelings and Respect" Chart if necessary
Instructional Strategies (20 minutes)
- "The students showed respect for the gingerbread man by making him his own house and chair and desk and promising to always take him with them when they leave the classroom. Were the students showing respect for others?"
- Open "Good Citizens..." screen on Smart/Promethean Board
- "We've learned how to be respectful citizens these last few days, 'Respecting Others' is one way to show respect, can anyone tell me another way?" (Write "Respect Others" on screen.
- As students provide answers, write these answers on the chart and ask the class for an example of this answer. For instance, if a student respond, "Respect myself!" ask the class, "What is a way we can show respect for ourselves?" Depending on the amount of hands raised, allow opportunities for multiple answers.
- Prompt students to give the following answers: listen, share, respect myself, respect others, respect property, respect the Earth, raise my hand/ follow the rules, work together as a group, being honest, being nice to others, etc.
- Beside examples listed on chart, include pictures if available.
- Address the class, "Yesterday we illustrated how we show respect, today we are going to make our own Gingerbread Citizens! Each of you will receive your own gingerbread citizen (show gingerbread citizen template) to decorate. We are going to display our gingerbread citizens and want to include all of the different ways we know how to be good citizens. You will each cut out the pictures that show how to be good citizens and paste it to your gingerbread citizen. (Model this activity briefly, cutting out an image and pasting it on the gingerbread citizen.) You can decorate it however you want."
- Prior to beginning activity, review the correct way to use scissors and glue sticks if necessary, remind students that once their work is complete, they are to raise their hands and wait for the teacher to come to them.
- Dismiss students by table from main carpet to their table, asking they pick up a Gingerbread Citizen sheet and a Respectful Citizens Cutout sheet.
- Assist students as necessary with scissors, cutting, pasting, etc.
- As students finish their gingerbread citizens, ask them to complete the following instructions:
2. Help clean up by placing scraps in the recycle bin, trash in the garbage,
returning materials, etc.
3. Wait quietly on the main carpet.
IV. Summary
- Once students are seated quietly on the main carpet, provide each student a turn to share his or her gingerbread citizen.
- Review with students the qualities that make a good citizen and encourage them to show others that they are good citizens through their actions.
V. Extensions and Other Activities
Math: Students can play "Roll a Gingerbread Man" game in which they must
identify numbers on a dice and draw the appropriate item.
Math: Students can play "Roll a Gingerbread Man" game in which they must
identify numbers on a dice and draw the appropriate item.
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Science: Depending on school policies and allergies, students will make their
own, edible gingerbread citizens exploring cooking as a scientific process.
Language Arts: Students can play a variety of games including "Baking up
Rhymes" in which students recognize rhyming words and orally identify rhymes.
own, edible gingerbread citizens exploring cooking as a scientific process.
Language Arts: Students can play a variety of games including "Baking up
Rhymes" in which students recognize rhyming words and orally identify rhymes.
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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.
As kindergarten students develop themselves as good citizens throughout the school year, the teacher will formatively assess their behavior daily with a checklist.
VII. Differentiation
Visual-Spatial: Students will create their own gingerbread citizen by cutting and pasting visual images of good citizenship. Students will follow a story through illustrations during a Read Aloud. Students will review characteristics of a good citizen through visual images.
Linguistic: Students will further develop their listening skills. They will integrate both text and imagery and explain respect and disrespect as well as share their gingerbread citizens.
Logical-Mathematical: Through the math extension activity, students will identify numbers and begin subitizing numbers to draw their own gingerbread man, also incorporating their knowledge of geometric shapes.
Intrapersonal: Students will work individually on their gingerbread citizen.
Interpersonal: Students will share their work with classmates.
Naturalist: Students are encouraged to identify respecting the Earth as a characteristic representative of a good citizen.
Visual-Spatial: Students will create their own gingerbread citizen by cutting and pasting visual images of good citizenship. Students will follow a story through illustrations during a Read Aloud. Students will review characteristics of a good citizen through visual images.
Linguistic: Students will further develop their listening skills. They will integrate both text and imagery and explain respect and disrespect as well as share their gingerbread citizens.
Logical-Mathematical: Through the math extension activity, students will identify numbers and begin subitizing numbers to draw their own gingerbread man, also incorporating their knowledge of geometric shapes.
Intrapersonal: Students will work individually on their gingerbread citizen.
Interpersonal: Students will share their work with classmates.
Naturalist: Students are encouraged to identify respecting the Earth as a characteristic representative of a good citizen.