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Title - 5 Up: A Game to Build Classroom Community and Enhance Self-Esteem
By - Ann Crisp
Primary Subject - Other
Secondary Subjects -
Grade Level - 2-5
Lesson Plan Title: 5 Up: A Game to Build Classroom Community and Enhance Self-Esteem
Concept / Topic To Teach: To allow students to gain feedback about their strengths from their peers; to help students learn to express positive feelings for their peers; and to help students learn to accept compliments.
Standards Addressed: NC Comprehensive School Counseling Standard Course of Study and Guidance Curriculum
General Goal(s): Competency Goal 7: The learner will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and interpersonal skills to help understand and respect self and others.
Specific Objectives: 7.01 Develop a positive attitude toward self as a unique and worthy person. 7.07 Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups. 7.12 Demonstrate how to communicate.
Required Materials: None
Anticipatory Set (Lead-In): Discuss uniqueness, that each student has special gifts, talents, and abilities which make them special. Discuss the importance of showing appreciation for others, and how that contributes to making their classroom a more pleasant place.
Step-By-Step Procedures: This is played like the game 7 Up which many teachers may be familiar with. Select 5 volunteers to stand up. Ask other students to put their heads down, close their eyes, and put their thumbs up. Ask questions from the list which follows, having each volunteer select a student who displays the quality asked for. The volunteers quietly tiptoe and gently touch the thumb of the chosen student. Students then guess who picked them, taking their place as a volunteer if they guess correctly. You may have to remind students that they don't have to be best friends with someone to recognize their good qualities, and encourage them to really think about who in their class displays the given qualities.
You may adapt this list, depending on the age and special interests or abilities of your students:
1. Go to a student who is kind to others.
2. Go to a student who shares with you.
3. Go to a student who has a good sense of humor (or makes you laugh.)
4. Go to a student who works hard in school.
5. Go to a student who is friendly (or plays with you.)
6. Go to a student you could trust with a secret.
7. Go to a student you would like to know better.
8. Go to a student who is a good listener.
9. Go to a student who is a good athlete (or a fast runner.)
10. Go to a student who makes you feel special.
11. Go to a student who is a good artist.
12. Go to a student who never teases others.
13. Go to a person who shares with you.
14. Go to a person who is helpful.
15. Go to a person who you would like to say "thank you" to (or I'm sorry, etc.)
16. Go to a person who smiles a lot.
You get the idea.create your own!
Plan For Independent Practice: Ask the students to think about how it makes them feel to hear the positive qualities others see in them, and encourage them to think of ways to "pass it on" by complimenting and encouraging their classmates.
Closure (Reflect Anticipatory Set): Discuss how students felt if they were chosen, or not chosen, and how it made them feel to choose others. Students may want to ask questions of those who chose them. You might also discuss why some students were picked more often -most students will make the connection that by displaying qualities such as helpfulness , sharing, responsibility, or friendliness they become more popular.
Assessment Based On Objectives: Students display understanding by their participation in discussion, and complimenting classmates in other situations.
Adaptations (For Students With Learning Disabilities): None needed.
Extensions (For Gifted Students): None needed.
Possible Connections To Other Subjects: This is a good follow up to the Chicken Soup for Little Souls book The Goodness Gorillas, which shows how looking for the good in others can change others and ourselves. I used these activities as part of Random Acts of Kindness Week.
Note: This game is not original to me, I got the idea years ago from colleagues at an Elementary Counselor sharing session, I'm sorry I don't know who to credit.
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