KINDERGARTEN --- SOCIAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
Goal 2: Develop social and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships.
2A Demonstrate friendship skills to interact effectively with others.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc73.txt Grades K-6- A Friendship Chain
To facilitate a student’s ability to express positive feelings towards another person and to help build class unity
Friendship:: Lesson Plan, Activity, or Teaching Idea from A to Z Teacher Stuff Using Eric Carle's book Do You Want To Be My Friend? to teach friendship skills.
New Page 1 Friendship Unit This page offers songs and poems that are based upon the topic of friendship.
Schooling Together - 100 Days of School With Swimmy:: Lesson Plan, Activity, or Teaching Idea from A to Z Teacher Stuff Using Swimmy by Leo Leoni, to teach the importance of working together.
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan: Living the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness This activity is based upon the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and encourages students to perform 100 acts of kindness for those aroind their home, school and their community.
Clifford Parents & Teachers: Teaching with Clifford Lesson Plan: Be Kind Based upon the book Clifford's Big Idea: Be Kind,by Norman Bridwell, but also references the books: Clifford's Class Trip by Norman Bridwell , The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn , and Corduroy by Don Freeman .
http://allaboutrespect.net/ This web page offers links to respect tools for teachers and families; topics include respectful listening, greeting someone respectfully, etc...
2B Use manners appropriately when relating with others.
socialsk Laura Candler offers ways to teach students how to interact appropriately and how to become productive team members.
refbook Laura Candler posts a list of cooperative activities that can be used by classroom teachers to stimulate team building and cooperation among students.
development / This PBS web page has links to a variety of Social and Emotional Learning topics from A-W; such as from "A Kindness Tree" to "World Rythms".
MEH0005 Skill Growth./Educator's Reference Desk/ Using literature to teach social skills, Leo the Late Bloomer.
MEH0006 Who Am I Collage./Educator's Reference Desk/ Students will use an appropriate way to share facts about themselves, become aware of the uniqueness of themselves and others, and describe themselves orally to a group of peers.
509 Favorite Sleepover / A to Z Teacher Stuff/ Using Authur's First Sleepover to talk about what people do at sleepovers.
MEH0201 Being Brave and Dealing With Fear./ A lesson that uses the story The Brave Little Monster to help students to learn how to be brave when dealing with fear. The student learns to identify different types of fear, and talk about appropriate ways to respond to different fearful situations. / Educator's Reference Desk
MEH0010 Go Away, Bad Dreams. / Using the book Go Away, Bad Dreams, to teach students that they can gain control over the emotion of fear. /Educator's Reference Desk
MEH0009 Monsters Are Make Believe./ A lesson to teach children that imagination is sometimes the cause of their fears; by using the book Go Away Big Green Monster! to stimulate a discussion about monsters and fears. Educator's Reference Desk
2C Demonstrate an ability to prevent, manage, and resolve interpersonal conflicts in constructive ways.
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan: Creating Class Rules: A Beginning to Creating Community A shared writing activity which can establish a foundation for ongoing community building in the classroom.
lp99c Cooperative Patterns / NC Public Schools Character Education Page / To identify/describe patterns and to practice cooperating with others to achieve a goal.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/conflict/index.html /University of Illinois Getting Along with Others
Welcome to AllAboutRespect.Net Click on "Respect Newsletter" for "Mediation Steps in Problem Solving".
http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons10.htm Grades Kdg – 2
The Hating Book by Charlotte Zolotow Awareness of how misunderstandings can cause and escalate and deescalate behaviors in conflict situations
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/4459.shtml Grades K-2 Snail Started It
Students learn the meaning of forgiveness and understanding how forgiveness and seeking forgiveness can dispel bad feelings
2D Demonstrate respect for individual and group differences.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec3/k2/unit11/kl1.htm Kindergarten
Who Was Reverend Martin Luther King? Recognize Martin Luther King Jr. as a great leader for equal rights. Understand Martin Luther King , Jr.’s hope that all people could live together without prejudice. Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo; I Am Freedom’s Child by Bill Martin Jr.; Arnie and the New Kid by Nancy Carlson
http://www.edhelper.com/DailyThemes_710.html Grades K-6 Disabilities Day Abilities Day Thematic Unit Celebrated December 22
Angela’s Wings Self-confidence, acceptance of others, compassion Grades K-4
Cultures of Our Nation – Building Self-esteem – The richness of their culture – How their culture has contributed to making America what it is today Grades K-4
lp15 Ocean Commotion /NC Character Education Lessons that use several pices of literature to introduce the different populations that co-exist within the ocean. Students will also learn of the character traits of courage, kindness, making good decisions and self discipline by studying ocean animals.
diversitymulticulturalism Multicultural Music and Songs that Build an Appreciation of Diversity
Planning a Mexican Fiesta in the Classroom - An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan This lesson helps students to understand the parts of a Mexican fiesta.
http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons7.htm Grade Kdg
Hey Little Ant by Philip and Hanna Hoose Knowledge of character to resolve story dilemma
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang.29.txt Grades K-6 Students will have a better understanding of a character and character traits.
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang.39.txt Grades K-6 Students identify with characters in a story by inferring character traits.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang29.txt Grades K-6 Students think about a character and how that character thinks about life. Character comparison and contrast – Identification through trait descriptions – Use of Character Webs
http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/lesplanwa.nsf/d8de5a7587da44308525692d0066c2fb/1b65a7264ad322af852569ed004bacab?OpenDocument Grade K Tolerance - accepting things that are different The Big Orange Splot by Pinkwater
http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Lessons/CharacterEducation/Kindergarten/Grk_17kind_1.pdf Grade Kindergarten Kindness and Helpfulness Develop sense of self-awareness Understand the concept of helpfulness Link helpfulness to caring using the book The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexei Tolstoy.
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