Elementary Lesson Plan Ideas
Betty Chamberlin
Millcreek Elementary
Granite School District

 

1. Caring = Kindness, Courtesy, Friendliness

Big Brother - Charlotte Zolotow

Toby's Toe - Jane Goodsell

The Elephant and the Bad Baby

Sent home a cardboard boomerang. "When you send out kindness, it comes back to you."

2. Respect = Esteem, Honor, Appreciation

The Baker's Daughter in J398-2 Lurie (coLib)

I Love My Grandma (Native American)

Sent home a raw Rhodes Bake & Serve roll to rise.

3. Responsibility = Reliability, Dependability

Horton Hatches the Egg - Dr. Suess

"King Alfred and the Cakes;" The Book of Virtues

The Boy who held back the Sea

Sent home a baked biscuit and had them taste a burned one.

4. Compassion = Empathy, Understanding, Love

Elephant Buttons

About Handicaps

"Sheltering Wings" - The Moral Compass

Sent home a pompom with eyes and a beak glued on to be a sparrow.

5. Cooperation = Team Work

"The Bundle of Sticks" - Aesop's Fables

The Piggybook

The Wizard the Fairy and the Magic Chicken

Tried to cut with broken scissors, sent home a scissors - like dragon

6. Self Control = Restraint

"The King and His Hawk" - from the Book of Virtues

The Golden Touch - (Midas)

Tried to balance a "self controlled" cardboard wand on open palms and then a cardboard strip that was bent and weak with no "self control".

Sent home a cardboard strip to practice with.

7. Commitment = Loyalty, Faithfulness

Philips's Little Sister

Tsubu

Sent home a "pet snail" (live)

8. Honesty = Truthfulness, Trustworthiness, Integrity

The Lie

Franklin Fibs

Sent home poppyseed muffins pretending the seeds were flies.

9. Diligence = Perseverance, Endurance

"Mother Holle" - Book of Virtues

"Robert Bruce and the Spider" - Book of Virtues

Sent home a Halloween spider ring tied by a thread to a paper cup: try to toss up the spider and catch it in the cup.

10. Courage and Review

We reviewed all 9 items above and I told the story:

"The Knights of the Silver Shield" - The Moral Compass

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Permission to post was granted by Betty Chamberlin of Mill Creek Elementary in Granite School District