The Finding Friends unit highlights friendship, finding friends, how friends act, how to be a good friend, and how to resolve problems. In this unit, students will demonstrate their understanding of the concept of finding friends, as well as their knowledge of the literacy standards. Students will be working on skills such as making connections, predicting, and identifying theme.
Friend Interviews - Unit Introduction
Using a cooperaltive learning strategy, like Mix Pair Share, allow students to get to know each other. After students have found their partner, the interview process can begin. In the interview, each student will ask 3 their partner questions. These questions can be teacher directed or student created. Students will take turns asking their partners questions in order to learn more about them. Use the “My Friend” response sheet for students to record what they learn. In each circle students will draw their partners response to the interview questions.
Before using Shadow Puppet with your students, you may want to watch the Shadow Puppet Edu tutorial.
Be sure to model this process for students before students are expected to participate in this activity. The teacher and the assistant can model all of the steps that we have listed so far. Conduct the interview with one another and complete the response sheet. Model for students how to create the presentation using Shadow Puppet Edu incorporating the interview data. This task card can be used with students while they are working independent of the teacher. Making Connection to Friendship Stories - Whole Group
Read stories about friendship such as Big Al and Don't Need Friends with the class taking time to model how to make connections to stories. Making connections is important to help students understand the meaning of the text and the point of view of the characters. For example, in the story Big Al, Al attempts to make friends with the other fish in the sea by doing different things. Students have the opportunity to make a connection to the text by recalling ways they have or could make friends in their life. After reading the story and modeling how to make connections throughout, students can complete a response sheet similar to this one.
This is a good activity to repeat with this unit and others to build capacity for independently and naturally making connections. Seesaw is a wonderful tool to help archive students' thinking over time. Students can use Seesaw to take a picture of their completed work and upload it to for sharing or as part of a portfolio. Teachers could also use the response sheet to create a Seesaw activity. Click here to get started with Seesaw. Connect to Theme with iMovie - Inquiry
On inquiry days allow time for discussion of them and the opportunity to collect pictures that show friendship and pictures that demonstrate not being a good friend. Look for examples within the classroom, but also throughout the school community. After the pictures are collected, use the pictures to produce a movie using iMovie.
Standards ELA K RL 6.1, K I 2.1 CS K.DL.1.2 AuthorsAngela Busbea
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