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Children and Youth Empowerment

TODAY'S SCHEDULE

Introduction Activity
This Month's Life Skill: Cooperation and Teamwork
Opening Activity
Life Skill Lesson
Group Activity
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 everyone ONE THING fun you did this past month. I'll start. My name is ________________ and I _______________. Now it's your turn.

OK great! Now's it's time for our Theme Song! Everybody, stand up!

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:

cooperation and teamwork

WHAT YOU SAY: WHAT IS COOPERATION? Does anyone know?

(let kids answer)

Definition: the process of working together to the same end. Working toward the same goal together.

What about TEAMWORK?

Definition: the combined action of a group of people.

Kind of the same thing right? Working together as a group to get to an agreed upon outcome.

Now let's watch this funny video on Cooperation and Teamwork.

WHAT YOU SAY: So tell me what you think of that video? What happened in it? The birds? The crabs? The polar bears?

(Let the students understand that the birds were not being very nice to the big bird and were making fun of him. Then the big bird let go of the wire and it sprang all the little birds up into the air so fast that their feathers came off. ) Did they all work as a team? NO

What about the crabs? If one crab was by himself, we would have gotten taken by the large bird. But they all gathered together to help him. They showed teamwork and saved the crab. Same with the polar bears. They made a tower together and were able to touch the moon!

Now I'm going to tell you a little story and I want you to listen...

3. OPENING ACTIVITY

WHAT YOU SAY: “A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near, they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, they fell a-quarreling among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then the Lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all four.”

Does anyone know what the lesson of the story is?

Today, we are learning about they will learn about cooperation and teamwork, working together as a team in order to achieve something bigger and better.

So let's continue on with the lesson.

4. This week's lesson

WHAT YOU SAY: Teamwork and cooperation are a little tricky to teach virtually. So, we are just going to play a little game of words. I'm going to call on you and you are going to say one word. We are going to make up one long sentence. Will it make sense?? I don't know but it doesn't matter. We are going to do it together as a team!

Here we go. Now I'm going to share my screen so we can all see the sentence we are creating together!

WHAT YOU DO: call out the first name - share your next screen and type the words they say until everyone has a chance. Discuss the sentence at the end as being put together by using teamwork

teamwork sentence:

WHAT YOU SAY: So that's a funny sentence friends! Good job working together as a team!

Now we are going to watch several videos about teamwor.

5. ACTIVITY

WHAT YOU SAY: OK friends, can anyone give me an example of when you have worked in a team or have cooperated with someone to get something done?

(for example, cleaning up the house, working in the yard, doing the dishes, planning a party, working on a school group project, etc. Ask students to discuss the benefits of cooperation when doing these things.)

WHAT YOU SAY: Now it's time for...

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. Next time we're together, I want to know all the ways you cooperated or work in a team. Here's one way I'm going to work in a team this month...

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

WHAT YOU DO: Close the session in your way of choosing

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