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Lesson PlanSubject:
Health
Grade:
One
Content (Topic):
 
Pebbles of Promise
Strand: Social RelationshipsTopics: Making Friends, Relationships in the ClassroomConcepts: Being a Good Listener, Making it a Good Place for Learning 
Foundational Objectives:
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Students will better understand the basic elements of social andemotional well-being (PSVS)
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Students will treat themselves andothers with respect (PSVS)
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Students will develop attitudesnecessary for healthy living (PSVS)
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
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Recognize the need for healthy personal relationships withmembers of their family, friendsand others in the community
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Develop their interpersonal skills
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Increasingly accept responsibilityfor themselves and others
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Value friendship
Assessment:
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Participation in the making of a promise
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 Nature of the promise made (Will it contribute to a positive space for learning?)
Common Essential Learnings (CELs):
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Communication
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Personal and Social Values and Skills (PSVS)
Prerequisite Learning:
N/A
Major Resources:
“A Pebble” poem by Rick Masters
Lesson PreparationEquipment/materials:
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Pebbles (1 each member of the classroom)
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Lg. clear bowl
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Overhead
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“A Pebble” by Rick Masters
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Paper for each member of the classroom
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Books from “Additional Resources” for book look 
Advanced Preparation:
N/A
 
PresentationSet: (10 min)
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Introduce some scenarios to students: How would you feel if…
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Ex. You kept trying and trying to tell your classmate or your teacher somethingimportant, but he/she wouldn’t listen to you.
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Ex. Your teacher asked you to choose a partner, but everyone in the class thatyou asked said no, they did not want to be partners with you.
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Ex. At recess, a classmate kept on pushing you when you walked by. Eventhough the problem was never solved, you still had to sit next to this person.
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Ask students: If that happened, how would you be feeling? Would it make it easier or harder for you to focus on your schoolwork?
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What happens if somebody pushes you? Do you want to push them back? If you arefeeling sad and bad, do you think that might have an effect on the other people aroundyou? What if I (the teacher) was feeling tired and angry and I was having a bad day. Imight be acting really grumpy, and maybe I would get angry with you for somethingsmall. Would my actions change how you might feel?
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Our actions affect the people around us.
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Introduce and read the poem “A Pebble” by Rick Masters
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Think of a pond of water. When you touch the water, what happens? (Use the bowl of water to show the ripples that are created) When I touch the water in one spot, ripplesare created, and those ripples make more ripples, and those ripples make more ripples,until the whole bowl of water has been affected by me touching that one spot.
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Our actions work like these ripples. When we do something, it can affect all the peoplearound us.
Development: (20 min)
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Tell students that we are going to make promises to one another in order to make our classroom a good place to be.
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Show students the pebbles. I call these pebbles “pebbles of promise” because they willrepresent the promises that we make to each other.
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Should you ever break a promise? A promise is something that lasts forever.
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Ask students to think of a promise they could make to their classmates and to us thatcould help our classroom be a nice place to be (Take possible answers and write on the board)
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Ask students to write down their promises
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When students are finished writing down their promises, re-focus the students
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Explain that we are going to tell each other our promises. A promise is not somethingthat should be broken. We are making promises to each other about our classroomcommunity.
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When you come up to read your promise, you may take a “pebble of promise” and dropit into the bowl. (Teacher demonstrates reading a promise and dropping a pebble in).
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Ask for volunteers.
 
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After the third promise pebble is dropped in, draw students’ attention to the ripples.See? Each of our pebbles, and each of our promises, touches all of the other pebbleswhen the water ripples out to touch all of the pebbles
Closure: (15 min)
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When every student has made their promise, thank the students. Show them where the pebbles of promise will stay in the classroom
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If a student is forgetting their promise and needs help remembering, they can be directed(by themselves, by the teacher, or by a friend) to the “Promise Pond” and read their  promise to remember how they will help make the classroom a nice place to be.
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Invite students to do a “book look” with a partner, focusing on books that highlightsocial relationships, friendship, promise making, etc. (See “Additional Resources”)**Possible promises made by grade one students might be:
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 Not to touch
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To Listen
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To be a good friend
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To include everybody**If students are having trouble thinking of a promise, ask them to think of something that theywould want someone to promise them. If they don’t like to be touched, maybe they could promise not to touch.
Extensions:
Promises could be written with permanent marker (two or three words) onlarger stones; Students make posters to go along with each promise, which are then hungin the classroom to show a set of “rules” or a “classroom creed”; Display the promisesstemming from the poem in the centre. Display the promises and poem near the promise pond which will stay in the classroom.
Adaptive Dimension:
Students who feel shy about talking in front of the class areinvited to say one word of promise (ex. nice, listen)
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