2.1.1+Lesson+4

= LESSON PLAN = created by: Sharon Elementary

Objective 1
Describe and demonstrate appropriate social skills necessary for working in a group.

__Student learning objective__:
> = =
 * 1) Describe behaviors that contribute to cooperation within groups at school and in a neighborhood.
 * 2) Discuss the roles and responsibilities of being a member of a group.
 * 3) Participate in a group activity modeling appropriate group behavior.

__At the beginning of the school year when you are setting up your routines and expectations, you can do the following activities__:
- Discuss the words responsibility, cooperation, appropriate, behavior, friendship. Help the students write these words, the definitions, and draw a picture representing the words in their vocabulary journals. - Choose different students to participate in role playing social situations that they would be in during the school day (i.e. recess, lunch, partner/group work time, centers, walking in the halls) - Make a T-chart with your students for what your different routines in the classroom should look like and sound like.

= =
 * Only go over one or two of these activities each day so that the students will be able to retain the information you have gone over.

__Books to support the subject__:
//Me First// by Helen Lester //The Recess Queen// by Alexis O'Neill and Laura Huliska-Beith //David Goes To School// by David Shannon //No, David!// by David Shannon //Mine-o-saur// by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen //Ruby the Copycat// by Peggy Rathmann //How do Dinosaurs go to School// by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague //My Mouth is a Volcano// by Julia Cook //A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue// by Julia cook