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Reflecting and Sharing
Lesson 5:
From Unit You Are Uniquely You
Purpose:
This lesson is designed to provide the students with an opportunity to reflect on what they learned during this unit. They will write a letter to share this information with people at home.
Duration:
One Forty-Five Minute Class Period
Objectives:
The learners will:
- create a drawing and share some words that express his or her reaction to the project.
- write a friendly letter.
Materials:
- Chart paper, white board or chalk board
- Small pieces of paper (approximately 5” x 8”) and tape
- Paper
- Pencils
- Crayons, colored pencils or markers
Instructional Procedure(s):
DAY 1:
Anticipatory Set:
As a group, review the activities of the unit. List the activities and exercises the group took part in on the left side of the class chart. Ask students to include the purpose of the various activities.
- Direct students to think to themselves about their favorite parts of the lessons.
- Instruct students to make small sketches that represent what they will take away from the project. They need to also think of a few words or sentences to say that describe their drawings. Students may make more than one drawing, if time allows.
- Students share their drawings and their words with the class and affix them to the right side of the chart next to the corresponding activities.
- Give students the assignment to write a friendly letter to a family member. The letter will describe the projects in this unit and the student’s reactions to and feelings about the lessons. Review the elements of a friendly letter.
- Students write a rough draft of their letter.
- Students pair with each other to edit and polish their writing.
- Students make the final copies of their letters.
- Students share their polished letters with a student that hasn’t seen it yet. If they agree that the work is complete, they turn them in to the teacher.
- Teacher evaluates the letters and returns them to students to send.
Assessment:
Create a drawing and share some words that express his or her reaction to the project.
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Write a friendly letter.
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School/Home Connection:
- Interactive Parent / Student Homework:
Students take their letters home to their families and read them with an adult. With an adult, they make a graphic representation of the members of the family and list one or more traits that each person has that helps to make that person unique and valuable.
The graphic representation may take the form of a sketch of the family members, a chart or a mind map. It may be completed on the back of the student’s letter or done on a separate sheet of paper.
Lesson Developed By:
Kim DavisonKalamazoo Public Schools
Woods Lake Elementary School
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Handouts:
Unit Contents:
Overview:You Are Uniquely You Summary
Lessons:
- 1.
- Simply Unique
- 2.
- I Am a Star
- 3.
- Selfless Self-portraits
- 4.
- Deciding and Providing Service
- 5.
- Reflecting and Sharing
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Students enojoyed this unit. It was personal, creative, and fun.
I liked the way the lesson reviewed the previously taught lessons. This was a very lengthy lesson so this enabled the students to think back and really think about the impact it had on them.
(The positive aspects of using this lesson were) the idea of having the student review the unit's lesson and then letting them make and share a drawing of their favorite part and what they've learned about in this unit. Good and fun culminating activity. Also, the friendly letter portion was very beneficial because it is a topic that is covered in our 4th grade Lang Arts curriculum.