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Children will gain an understanding of themselves as an integral part of their classroom community.
SEL Focus: self-awareness
Watch a Video: You Belong
Skill: social and emotional learning
Read the Issue:
You Belong
Play a Game: Friends Make Words
Skill: decode words
Complete Skill Sheets
Reading Checkpoint
Skill: comprehension
My Communities
Skill: individual development and identity
I Belong in my Class
Skill: writing
Lesson Boosters
Paired Text: The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Sight Word Hunt: can and here
Hands-on Activity: Class Quilt
CCSS (and states that have similar standards): SL.1.2, RF.1.3.B, RI.1.1, W.1.1, RL.1.1, RF.1.3, W.1.8
Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.
Skill: belonging, self-awareness
Materials: “My Quilt Square” skill sheet, markers, crayons, scissors, tape, colored construction paper or oaktag