Habitat

Children and Youth Empowerment

TODAY'S SCHEDULE

Introduction Activity
This Month's Life Skill: Becoming a Good Friend and Citizen
Opening Activity
Life Skill Lesson (Need Top 10 Ways to be a Good Citizen sheet)
Group Activity (Need Citizenship Chart and pencils)
Move It
Wrap Up Review

1. Introduction Activity

WHAT YOU SAY: Good morning everyone! So to start, we are going to go around and say our names again and tell me one fun thing you want to do this week. I'll start. My name is ________________ and I would really like to_______________. Now it's your turn.

OK great! Now it's time for Will.I.Am and our Theme Song!

LIFE SKILLS

WHAT YOU SAY: Great Job Friends! Let's move on to what we discussed last time. Who remembers What a Life Skill is?

(let's kids answer)

Life skills is a term used to describe a set of basic skills acquired through learning and/or direct life experience that enable individuals and groups to effectively handle issues and problems commonly encountered in daily life.

Life skills help us succeed in life. Life skills help us set & achieve goals, solve problems, respect one another and more!

A life skill can be as simple as learning to do your own laundry or as big as learning to be respectful.

THIS MONTH'S LIFE SKILL IS...

2. THIS MONTH'S LIFE SKILL:

BECOMING A GOOD FRIEND AND CITIZEN

WHAT YOU SAY: Well we all kind of know what being a good friend is, right? But what is being a good CITIZEN?

(let kids answer)

Definition: A person that lives in a particular place. I am a citizen of the state of Florida. And so are all of you! Being a GOOD CITIZEN means doing the right thing, being kind, generous, caring...

Now let's watch this short video on being a good friend.

3. OPENING ACTIVITY

WHAT YOU SAY: OK KIDS, I'm going to tell you several scenarios. Your job. is to identify whether the friends are being good friends and are filling one another’s lives with happiness, or are being bad friends and are tearing each other down.

(After each scenario is read, pause to ask students whether they think the children are acting as good, giving friends, or bad, taking friends. If they think the students are not being good friends, ask how they can change their behavior or words in order to be good, giving friends.)

Ok Here's the first scenario:

Scenario 1:

Two students are eating together at lunch and are chatting. A new student is walking around the cafeteria and doesn’t know where to sit because she doesn’t know anyone yet. The two friends invite the new student to sit with them.

Do you think they are being good friends?

Scenario 2:

Two friends are sitting next to each other while taking a test. One of the friends whispers to the other, asking his friend for the answer to a question. The friend with the answers to the test is not sure how to respond because he doesn’t want to hurt his friend’s feelings or ruin their friendship, but he knows it is wrong to cheat.

Scenario 3:

A boy is playing baseball with his friends. He is at bat, and the pitcher strikes him out. One of his friends who is playing on the opposite team starts teasing him, saying he stinks at baseball.

Scenario 4:

A girl is practicing gymnastics with a friend of hers. She is having a lot of trouble mastering a back handspring. Her friend helps her by walking through the move, step by step, and spotting her as she tries it again and again.

Scenario 5:

A group of friends are playing tag at recess. One boy has been “it” for a long time and is having trouble tagging another child. His friend approaches and allows him to tag her so that he can have a break from being “it.”

Scenario 6:

A girl is excited to wear her new dress to school. When she arrives, she realizes another girl in her class is wearing the same dress. She is a little disappointed to not be the only person wearing the dress, but she compliments the other girl on her style and says that they can be twins for the day.

Scenario 7:

Two boys are playing a math game where they need to race to see who can answer multiplication facts first. One boy is clearly doing a better job and is winning the game. He begins to tease his friend by saying that he isn’t as smart and he needs to go home and practice before he can play the game again with him.

4. This week's lesson

WHAT YOU SAY: We are going to watch a lesson on the top 10 ways to be a good citizen.

WHAT YOU SAY: Ok kids, Pull your list of 'TOP 10 WAYS TO BE A GOOD CITIZEN'. Can anyone give me an example of one of these?

(let discussion begin)

Now, we are going to move into our group activity.

5. GROUP ACTIVITY

WHAT YOU SAY: Ok kids, we are going to pull out our CITIZENSHIP CHART. Now that you've learned how to be a good friend and citizen, I want you to write down ways you can be a good friend and citizen AT SCHOOL, AT HOME AND IN YOUR COMMUNITY.

I'm going to give you 8 minutes - that's a lot of time, but I want you to really think about how YOU specifically can be a good citizen in all 3 of these categories.

Here's the timer.

WHAT YOU DO: Share your screen to the next text box.

WHAT YOU SAY:

OK FRIENDS, our time is up. Would anyone like to share how they are going to be good citizens?

Each person in our community has his or her own unique life experiences that shape who he or she is. It is important to respect all our differences and to work together to make the community, including the online community, better. ALSO, How you behave online can be a major reflection of who you are. ‘Good Digital Citizens’ always strive to be kind, careful, and responsible online.

6. move it

WHAT YOU SAY: OK Kids, it's time to move it! Let's stand up and show your dance moves!

WHAT YOU DO: Stand up, dance along with kids.

7. WRAP IT UP

(an opportunity to review this month's Life Skill and apply it to their lives)

WHAT YOU SAY: It was so much fun to be with you today. I know that everything we've learned each month will stick with you! I hope you will be do your best to be responsible, empathic, positive, confident and a good friend and citizen.

Does anyone have anything else they would like to add?
Now we are going to sign off.....

WHAT YOU DO: Sign off as you choose...

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