Nicole Rosini Resource Share Title: Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes ‘opie: Name Calling ‘Time: 40 mins. Grade Level — K-2°¢ ASCA National Standard: Personal/Social PS: A2.3 ~ recognize, accept, respect and appreciate individual differences Materials © Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes © Crayons, markers, colored pencils. © Life size cut out of a student (white bulletin board paper) Objective ‘© Students will learn that words sometimes hurt more than actions Activity Explain to the students that we will be reading a book about a little mouse named Chrysanthemum. Students will next work together to decorate/create the life size student cut out, After the new student is created the students will give him/her a name. Students will come together on the rug for the read aloud. ‘The new student will join the class for the read aloud (have the new student sit in their own chair in the circle with the other students), ‘The school counselor will next begin to read the book Chrysanthemum, After the story the school counselor will discuss with the students what happened in the book and talk about all the mean things that happened to Chrysanthemum. ‘The school counselor will discuss with the students some hurtful words that they sometimes use with their friends. The school counselor will have students’ volunteer hurtful words that they may have used before, When a student mentions a word (ex. dumb) the school counselor rips the new student sitting next to her. The school counselor asks for a few more volunteers and performs the same action to the new student, ‘The school counselor asks the students how we can fix our new student. The students reply — tape, kind words. The students volunteer kind words to help fix our new student, As the students give the school counselor kind words she tapes him/her back together, Assessment ‘The school counselor asks the students if their new student looks the same now that he/she is taped back together. The students reply no. The school counselor discusses that even when we say sorry or replace the ‘hurtful words with kind words our friends may not feel the same as before the hurtful words were spoken. Continue to discuss this with students and have them discuss things they can do differently instead of using hurtful words.