Goal/Objective: After reading The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and learning how to be a good friend to one another, teacher will read a new book, Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. After reading Chrysanthemum by Marcus Pfister students will be able to write a letter to Chrysanthemum by being a good friend comforting Chrysanthemum because she has no friends in school and she is getting picked on. Students will be able to pretend they are Chrysanthemum friend and writing a letter to her to make her feel better.
Activity:
We see a lot of social developments such as building friendships, occur in Friendships to a child is very important because they will learn to have an emotional attachment for another person besides their caregivers. Teaching good friends qualities will help children build stronger friendships. Student will participate in a read aloud for Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. The teacher and student will reflect on the different feelings Chrysanthemum feels every she goes to school. Students will then write a letter for Chrysanthemum pretending they are her friend and will try to comfort her. Materials needed is the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, crayons/ markers for decorating, construction paper for letter, and pencil for writing. …show more content…
I will ask the question, “We have to write a letter to Chrysanthemum to comfort her because she is upset, what should we write to make her feel better?” Students will tell me what we should write in the letter. I will take different ideas and put the letter together so I can model to them how a letter looks like and how to write one. We will use the ideas we discussed before the read aloud “What happens when you see your friend being upset? How do you feel then?” to write the letter. If students finish early, they can draw a picture of him/her with Chrysanthemum doing something friends do together (eat ice cream, play in a
Activity:
We see a lot of social developments such as building friendships, occur in Friendships to a child is very important because they will learn to have an emotional attachment for another person besides their caregivers. Teaching good friends qualities will help children build stronger friendships. Student will participate in a read aloud for Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. The teacher and student will reflect on the different feelings Chrysanthemum feels every she goes to school. Students will then write a letter for Chrysanthemum pretending they are her friend and will try to comfort her. Materials needed is the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, crayons/ markers for decorating, construction paper for letter, and pencil for writing. …show more content…
I will ask the question, “We have to write a letter to Chrysanthemum to comfort her because she is upset, what should we write to make her feel better?” Students will tell me what we should write in the letter. I will take different ideas and put the letter together so I can model to them how a letter looks like and how to write one. We will use the ideas we discussed before the read aloud “What happens when you see your friend being upset? How do you feel then?” to write the letter. If students finish early, they can draw a picture of him/her with Chrysanthemum doing something friends do together (eat ice cream, play in a