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Page 1: It’s a Small World After All A Kindergarten Multicultural Friendship Unit by Kristy Gnandt & Laura Lucas

It’s a Small World After All

A Kindergarten Multicultural Friendship Unit by Kristy Gnandt & Laura Lucas

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Grade Level: Kindergarten

Theme: How to Be a Friend

Subject Areas: Language Arts & Social Studies

Time Frame: 2 weeks (9 days) 30-45 minutes each day

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Language Arts Goals Multicultural Goals

• Follow Simple Directions

• Communicate own thoughts, ideas and experiences

• Visualize information in texts

• Demonstrate understanding by drawing pictures

• Communication• Relate to diverse

cultures• Learn how to be

friendly, socialize, and problem-solve own situations

• Appreciate differences

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IT'S A SMALL WORD

AFTER ALL:

FRIENDSHIP

DAY 1:ME, MYSELF AND

I

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT ME

TREE

DAY 2:WAYS TO BE A

FRIEND

THE RAINBOW FISH FELT

BOARD

DAY 3:WAYS NOT TO BE

A FRIEND

FRIENDSHIP QUILT

DAY 4:BOSSES AND

BULLIES

ROLE PLAYING

DAY 5:ARGUING &

MAKING UP WITHFRIENDS

SMALL STATIONS: PROBLEM-SOLVING

DAY 6:ALIKE AND DIFFERENT

RAINBOW HAND

PRINTS

DAY 7:ALIKE AND DIFFERENT

CONTINUED

NAME MEANING &

RAINBOW POEM

DAY 8:BEING FRIENDLY

DAY 9:GIRL & BOY

SCOUT LEADERS

SONG, HISTORY &

FOOD FESTIVAL

FRIENSHIP BOOK

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Fictional LiteratureChrysanthemum

by Kevin Henkes

Jamaica’s Tag Alongby Juanita Havill

Jamaica’s Findby Juanita Havill

Cleversticks by Bernard Ashley

The Name Jarby Yang Sook Choi

The Rainbow Fishby Marcus Pfister

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Non-Fiction

I Like Me! by Nancy Carlson

PoetryYou and Me: Poems

of Friendshipby Salley Mavor

How to Be a Friend by Laurie Krasny Brown

Children Just Like Me by Anabel Kindersley

Celebrations by Anabel Kindersley

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Technology

www.theteachersroom.com

www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Friendship/

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Community Resources

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Plans for Diverse Students

• Use different teaching strategies

• Use children’s personal experiences to connect with lessons

• Cooperative groups• Hands-on activities• Scaffolded-Reading

Experiences• Celebrate differences

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The More We Get TogetherThe more we get together, Together together,The more we get together,The happier we’ll be!

For your friends Are my friends,And my friendsAre your friends.

The more we get togetherThe happier we’ll be!

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ActivitiesWays to be a Friend

•Read the book The Rainbow Fish•Discuss sharing and being kind•Children come up to felt board one at a time with a felt scale•Place the scale on the board and tell one way to be a good friend

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Activities

Friendship Quilt

• Read chapter from book• Compare ways to be a friend chart & ways not

to be a friend chart• Students write ways to be a friend on one

colored square paper • Students write ways not to be a friend on a

different colored square• Put squares together to make a quilt• Present & display in classroom

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Activities

Arguing and Making Up

• Read Jamaica’s Tag-Along• Divide class into small groups• Each group has a different

problem/dilemma to solve• Find ways to handle situation• Report to class by acting out the

situation and solution

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Activities

Alike and Different

• Read the book Cleversticks • Make handprints with paint• Paste picture in left handprint• Write name and meaning in right

handprint• Create Rainbow of Friends• Sing It’s a Small World After All

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Final Evaluation

• Journal compositions

• Group discussions

• Problem-solving situations

• Artwork

• comparison charts

• Role playing

•Friendship Book

•Each student draws a picture that sums up their idea of what a good friend is or what a good friend might do (past, present, future).

•Teacher writes (in child’s own words) a description of their picture underneath

•Bound into a Friendship Book-Great Resource!

Friendship Book

Numerous Assessments

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Pictures taken from google images www.google.com