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= LESSON PLAN = created by: Kaitlyn Hook- Westmore Elementary

__Core Objective/Standard__:
Share stories, folk tales, art, music, and dance inherent in neighborhood and community traditions. Recognize and demonstrate respect for the differences within one's community (e.g. play, associations, activities, friendships).

__Student learning objective__:
Students will share with the class and learn about the importance of traditions. They will learn to demonstrate respect while listening to others share.

__Materials needed__:
A personal tradition to share with the class. Parents support! camera journals

__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:
Starting after the Thanksgiving Break up until the Winter break, every day I invite a different parent of a student into my classroom to share family traditions with the class. They are able to share stories, folk tales, art, music and dance with my class. -To set this up I start with sharing my own family tradition. We discuss how everyone is different and all deserve respect. Make sure to take pictures to make a class book of all the fun events.

If you choose to do it with teachers you can just have a day where you rotate classes. So the teacher would just share their tradition in their classroom several times in one day to different classes as they rotate around.
 * If you do not have the parent support to do this you can do it with several teachers in your team or at your school. You could invite different people to share ie principal, secretary, lunch ladies etc.

__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:
With the students brainstorm how to show respect for different cultures, peoples and traditions.

__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:
Make sure to have the students write in their journals about the different experiences. You could have students share their journals about what they like about different traditions to continue the discussion on the importance of respect.

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
Listen to students reactions to the different events. Make sure to use this as a guide to help you know what to discuss about respect and differences.