Friendship

Hello,

The theme of friendship fit in nicely for the month of February.  We celebrated pink day on Feb 14^th and I did the majority of my lessons then.  If you did not know this already, Pink day is an anti-bullying day celebration while wearing the colour pink for that day.   For grades 1 and 4/5 we started the lesson by watching kid president on friendship.  We also watched Brad Bowden’s video on friendship than I paired the students with each other randomly.  I had them fill in a hand-shaking colouring sheet and got them to find three things that they had in common. Brad had recommended this for the monthly challenge.  With the grade 2/3 class I had them interview with each other with a set of questions we created as a class.  I.E. what country were you born in which we discovered that 10 students in that room where born out of Canada. 

With the grade 5/6’s I had them create five questions that they would like to interview each other with.  We talked about asking a person their favorite colour is a beginning type question and go into a little more depth with their questioning.  On this day I had only the grade 8’s because the grade 7’s were away volunteering at a group home for Valentine’s Day.  We started the lesson by watching a clip about friendship from the website wingslclip.  It was a Fast and Furious clip talking about friendship and was able to tie it in with what Brad was talking about.   I then randomly paired up the grade 8’s and had them interview each other the same way the grade 5/6’s did.  I did the same lesson with the grade 7’s the following day while the grade 8’s worked on their science project.