Lesson 6-Gabby Learns To Get Along
Lesson 6-Gabby Learns To Get Along
2 – Let’s Get 24
Social & personal learning: Social learning (sustaining relationships) 40 mins
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Children sustain relationships by:
• acknowledging and negotiating rights, roles and responsibilities in a range of contexts
• cooperating with others in social situations.
Lesson Goals:
- Students will be able to recognise examples and non-examples of what it means to behave responsibly towards others.
- Students will be able to internalise their self-talk the Being Tolerant of Others way of thinking and other types of thinking that help them to get along with all children.
- Children will be able to demonstrate examples and non-examples of different behaviours that are involved in behaving responsibly toward others
Success Criteria:
- I can say what getting along means.
- I can get along with others.
- I know the difference between getting along and not getting along.
Phase 1 Listen - Students are on the • Have Gabby Get Along review what getting along means. Gabby Get Along puppet
carpet. I like to get along with people. I work and play nicely with other
Time: 5
children, and I take turns and share with them, too. If someone
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disagrees with me or is mean to me, I try to talk about it instead of
approx.
fighting. I tell the truth and I say nice things to people. I follow the
rules in the classroom and on the playground, like lining up nicely
and not pushing or shoving to be first. I help clean up my classroom
and make it safer.
• Have Gabby explain to students that she was not always good at
getting along with others. She had to learn how to get along. Role
play not sharing a toy or book in the classroom. Talk about how it
makes them feel.
Phase 2 Interact – Making a Collage / • We are going to make a collage. Explain that a collage is a picture you Paper, scissors, glue and
Learning to Get Along. can make by pasting different coloured shapes of paper or other a variety of collage
Time: 25
materials on a bigger piece of paper. materials placed on a
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• Tell them they may use any of the materials that they like on the paper plate on each
table, but that they must share them with other children. table.
• Give each child his/her own piece of paper, scissors and glue. Have
Gabby Get Along move around the tables, looking for children who
are sharing the materials and taking turns choosing their favourite
things from the plate.
• Gabby may need to say:
Sometimes it’s hard to wait my turn and share materials. I help
myself to be a good friend by thinking “It’s good to share and to
help others”.
Or demonstrate Gabby’s self-talk by saying:
It’s good to share and to help others.