Standard: CCS, ELA, Writing, 2, #11- Create or present a poem, dramatization, art work, or personal response to a particular author or theme studied in class.
Goal/Objective: After reading The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and reflecting on the topic of friendship, the students will be able to build an understanding of how we can be a good friend and how it makes us feel when being a good friend by creating a class rainbow fish.
Activity: Friendships are often built in classrooms because the children are surrounded by their classmates which gives many opportunities for interactions with one another. Teaching students on how to be a good friend and build a good friendship is a life necessity because they will be building social skills in which they need to be a good friend. In the lesson students will be participating in a read aloud. The teacher and student will reflect on the different interactions the Rainbow fish encounters and what they feel
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I will ask, “What does Friendship make you think of? “What do you do with your friends? “What feelings do you usually feel when you are _______ (playing, eating, etc.) with your friend?” “Were you ever upset with your friend? Why? What happened?” “How do we show are being a good friend?” Students will raise their hands to share and I will write their answers on the white board. I will go over their answers on the whiteboard of their responses after everyone is done. I will point out on the major qualities of being a friend. After, I will tell the student that we will be reading a book about a special fish who wanted a friendship. I will also tell them that after reading the book, we will be creating a friendly class Rainbow Fish. During the read, I will also ask these questions, “How would you feel if you were the blue fish?” “How would you feel about the rainbow fish after he said no? What can the Rainbow fish do now to have
Through learning about the differences between friends, children can be better prepared for real life. As a teacher, there are challenges when a student has significant learning or behavioural needs, but in many ways, this just keeps a teacher ever vigilant of the need to be a lifelong learner.
The Rainbow Fish, illustrated and written by Marcus Pfister, has situations that are credible to students' lives. As a whole, many younger children do not like to share their favorite toys or food. Like rainbow fish with his beautiful scales, which he was fond of and really didn't want to give away to others. The other fish didn't want to be around him or play with him because he was rude and didn't share with others, similar to younger children's behavior. If a child is mean to them, they usually do not want to play and/or refuse to be friends with them anymore. The Rainbow Fish theme centers around sharing and friendship. With the idea of teaching children that if you are rude to others and refuse to share, others will not want to be your
There are over six billion people on Earth today. Each of those people has countless relationships, which extend further into an immense network of relations among thousands of individuals. These relations can be romantic, professional, unconditional, mutual, or the strongest of all, friendship. Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more beings. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism.
Standard 1: The student will express his or her thinking and ideas in a variety of writing genres.
Friendship opens our minds to different views and perspectives and change our perceptions. It has the power to change people’s views on life in a positive way. True friends will do anything to keep their friendship alive, no matter the barriers. Potok proves through the friendship of Danny and Reuven that friendship can be achieved no matter the barriers. He proves that friendship is a key value to life through his motif
Jetty Rats, by Phillip Gwynne, is a novel that explores the qualities of friendship. The text positions the reader to believe that friendship is a very important aspect in everyday lives and that it will be very helpful, but there will also be a lot of complex situations along the way. Friendships can grow between people of different genders, but love will become a factor. Secondly, friendships may grow between people who have close similarities but also differences. Thirdly, friendships can grow between different age groups who may or may not have the same interests. Jetty Rats is a novel that celebrates the gift of friendship- including all of the complex situations that they go though in order to maintain a healthy
All in all, you can learn many ideas pertaining to the topic of friendship from this book. Among the most important are: to never leave your friend, both figuratively and literally, you should always be worrying about your friend, and you should never take them for
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, that is a last drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over” (Bradbury, 71)
In the beginning of mankind's evolutionary history, being nomadic was a common practice of living because following migratory herds and gathering for other edible plants was a necessity for survival. It wasn’t until approximately 8,000 B.C. when people started to learn how to grow crops in a single spot without soil depletion and thus, agriculture was born. (New World Encyclopedia 2015) This major advancement in humankind allowed humans to form civilizations and transformed the way humans live that is the sprawling society that exists today. With ever expanding cities and the population growing at an exponential rate, humans need an abundance of agricultural land to support the world's rising demands. The effect of human's stationary lifestyle
Subsequently Corsaro took a different approach to studying children's friendship, Corsaro was more interested in maintaining the children's individual view of the word “friend” and seeing how children talk to each other about this. In addition Corsaro wanted to see what this may mean to children from different backgrounds and personal beliefs.
Friendships is a poem by Erica Fryberg that can relate to almost anybody who has experienced real and fake friendships, as it is about the speaker’s perspective on friendships, and the difference between having real and fake friends, forced friendships and real friendships. Through a comparison of friendships and furniture, the poet uses a humorous tone to describe friendships, making the speaker relatable. I particularly enjoyed this, as on a personal level I was able to relate to this, as a student at a school where teachers attempted to force unnatural relationships multiple times. Overall, this poem was an engaging poem, which, through language and poetic devices, clearly described the difference between real and fake friendships.
Escaping from the past, focusing on the present, and fearing the future, one enters the honors English classroom taught by Mrs. Roll, the tenth grade pre-AP English teacher. Because summer flew to its end, students became one step closer to their biggest fear- school. By the time one reached Mrs. Roll’s class, the quote, “I won’t be your friend, but I will be friendly,” was drilled regularly in one’s mind. Everyday in the class, there would be daily reminders of this warning. To be in her honors class was a risk, but also the wisest choice of them all. Not everything will go the way it is planned, but a little critiquing might get the task completed. With Mrs. Roll preaching to students day in and day out, she barely has time to remember all their names; therefore, what time does she have to be their friend? However, she does contain time to be friendly.
Friendship plays a major role in developing teamwork, which ultimately leads to a higher rate of success. Friendship is one of the two lessons in taught in this book. Friendship allows people to speak more freely and
The importance of friendship and how Bullard TALENT cultivates it can be seen on an everyday basis if one only looks at the relationships between the students of 8th grade. Every single student is always willing to help, not because they are obligated to, but merely because there is a feeling of camaraderie at this school. I believe that this is due to the fact that the 8th graders have grown very close and are now akin to family. We have been through both the good and the bad during our time here at Bullard TALENT and supported each other all along the way. These few acts of kindness have established an atmosphere of safety and friendship. Everywhere you turn, you can witness laughing and
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be beautiful then give all of it up for your friends? That is exactly what the rainbow fish did! Rainbow fish shows us what friendship and selflessness really is. When the he most beautiful fish in the ocean is asked to share one of his shining scales with a little blue fish, he refuses. Rainbow fish is then left with no friends and his only way to gain happiness is to share.