In this story a little girl learns about the important things in life from her friends. 

Materials

•  Loteria game
•  Snap clothes pins
•  Kitchen sponge cut into one inch squares.
• Pictures of children getting along-not getting along
• Any stuffed animals that you might have

Vocabulary

Before reading the Story

           Ask the children if they know what it means to have a friend.  Ask them what kinds of things that they like to do with their friends.  Ask them if a friend has ever taught them how to do something new.  Our story today is about how friends helped a little girl learn how to do many things.

Social & Emotional Development/Self-Concept; debins to develop and express awareness of self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics, and preferences. And Social & Emotional Development/Cooperation; increases abilities to sustain interactions with peers by helping, sharing, and discussions.

Reading the Story

            Read the sentences slowly to see if the children can tell the animal name when you say from my friend the _____. 

Science/Scientific Knowledge; expands knowledge of and abilities to observe, describe, and discuss the natural world, materials, living things, and natural processes.

After Reading the Story

           Tell the children that people can be good friends also and help teach each other to do good things.  Make scenarios that the children can respond to about what they can do to help.  Use puppets to help tell these scenarios. (If you are sitting at the lunch table and you want more green beans, what should you say?  If you want to put a book back on the shelf but there is someone standing in front, what should you do?  If you want to ride a bicycle but they are all being used, what should you do?  When someone gets off so you can get on, what do you say?  If someone was running on the playground and they fell down, what should you do? )

Social & Emotional Development/Self-Control; develops growing understanding of how their actions affect others and begins to accept the consequences of their actions.

Discovery

            Take a piece of paper, divide in half and write fighting-not fighting on it.   Use pictures to have the children sort the pictures by those that look like they are getting along and those in which they are fighting. As the children sort you can talk about the pictures and if they, the child, would react the same way.

Social & Emotional Development/Social relationships; progresses in responding sympathetically to peers who are in need, upset,hurt, angry; and in expressing empathy towards other.

Music and Movement;

            Chant the 1,1,1,2,3 chant.

1,1,1,2,3

All my friends are here with me.

You’re my friend, you’re my friend

You’re my friend, you’re my friend

1,1,1,2,3

All my friends are here with me!

(encourage the children to clap or tap out the beat as they chant)

Creative Arts/Movement; shows growth in moving in time to different patterns of beat and rhythm in music.

            Teach children Willoughby Wallaby Woo

Willoughby Wallaby Woo, I don’t know what to do.

Willoughby, wallaby wee, An elephant sat on me.

Willoughby, wallaby washed, I’m feeling awfully squashed

Willoughby wallaby woo, I don’t know what to do.

(Then go around the circle saying )

Willoughby, wallaby w____/werry

An elephant sat on Kerry!

Willoughby, wallaby w_____/woger

An elephant sat on Roger

(Continue around the circle doing each child’s name.  When you get back to the beginning do the chorus)

Literacy/Phonological Awareness; progresses in recognizing matching sounds and rhymes in familiar words, games, songs, stories, and poems.

Blocks

            Encourage the children to work together to build a structure. Friends cooperate and work together.

Social & Emotional Development/Cooperation; shows increasing abilities to use compromise and discussion in working, playing, and resolving conflicts in with peers.

Art

            Tell the children that the little girl must be happy to learn so many things from her friends.  What does your mouth do when you are happy? (It smiles).  Cut out smiles from large pieces of red construction paper.  Show the children how to print teeth onto the smile using a piece of sponge cut into a square and held with a clothespin and moving up and down, up and down.

Creative Arts/Art; gains ability in using different art media and materials in a variety of ways for creative expression and representation.

Library and Writing

            Ask the children to think of things that they know how to do that makes them feel proud.  Write these down on a piece of paper.  I write their proud things on a star shaped paper.  The children write their name on one side and I write what they are proud of on the other.  We then hang these over the table with string.

Social & Emotional Development/Self-Concept; demonstrates growing confidence in a range of abilities and expresses pride in accomplishments. AND Literacy/Early Writing; progresses from using scribbles, shapes, or pictures to represent ideas, to using letter-like symbols, to copying and writing familiar words such as their own name.

Dramatic play

            Bring in stuffed animals today.  As the children play ask them if they can think of things that each animal could teach them.

Science/Scientific Knowledge; expands knowledge of and abilities to observe, describe, and discuss the natural world, materials, living things, and natural processes.

Math and Manipulatives

            Teach the children to play Loteria which is the Spanish version of BINGO.  For older children instead of showing the children the pictures, only give clues for each symbol on the board.

Language Development/Listening & Understanding; demonstrates increasing ability to attend to and understand conversations, stories, songs, and poems.

Outdoor play

            Take the book outside to re-read and let the children do the actions.

Language Development/Listening & Understanding; demonstrates increasing ability to attend to and understand conversations, stories, songs, and poems. AND Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices; participates actively in games, outdoor play, and other forms of exercise that enhance physical fitness.

Transitions

Put two 6-foot long strips of masking tape onto the floor about 1 foot apart. Call two children to hold hands and then walk the line as they go to the next activity. You could have the children jump the line, walk backwards, tip-toe, etc..

Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices; participates actively in games, outdoor play, and other forms of exercise that enhance physical fitness. AND Language Development/Listening & Understanding; shows progress in understanding and following simple and multiple-step directions.

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