Leslie Penner

Title:

It’s Me!

Length:
30 minutes

Performance Expectation: The
students will complete a “Picture in Print” with
three listed characteristics that
make them special from
anyone else and share these with the
class.

Materials:

Mrs.
Katz and Tush

by Patricia
Polacco, crayons and markers, white
construction paper (enough for all
students), black ink pads (enough for each
group of four),
baby wipes, and a list of different feelings and characteristics.

Procedures:

1. Introduction:

We are all unique and special people
even though we share many of the same thoughts and ideas. In

Mrs. Katz and Tush

by Patricia Polacco, both Mrs. Katz
and Tush are unique people. Read

Mrs. Katz and Tush

.
How are the two characters in the book different? What do the
two characters have in common? Discuss as a class the reason
why they admire and grow to love each other so much. They admire
and love each other because of their differences. That is what
makes them who they are.

1. Development:

Have each student make a “Picture
in Print.” Present the list of characteristics and feelings
on the board. This will be a general list of things that students
can use or use to
think of other characteristics that
make them special. Have each student make a print of
one or two of their fingers on the
white construction paper. Do this by gently rolling the
finger from left to right on an ink
pad. Then gently roll the inked finger from left to right on
a piece of paper. Use the baby wipes
to remove the ink from the student’s fingers. Use
crayons to add features to the prints
to create an object or an animal. This object or animal should
be something that they compare themselves to. Examples are:
Flower, animal, person,
or car. Students will color their
drawing and write at least three characteristics that make
them very special individuals. After
this is finished, their “Pictures in Print” are completed.

Have students gather in a circle.
Each student will, one at a time, stand and tell what makes them
who they are. Students will state their reasons why and show
their, “Pictures in Print,” to the class.

III. Closure:

Discuss as a class, how we are all
special people in our own ways. Being the person I
am is the reason why people love me
and why we are friends. Have the class take an oath that “I’m
going to be the best me I can be.” Say we are going to take
and oath or make a
statement we promise to live by.
Have the kids stand and say, “I

(state your name)

,
am going
to be the best me I can be.”

Assessment: The
teacher will place a check by the student’s name, in the grade
book, if
they have completed a “Picture
in Print” with three characteristics of what
makes them unique labeled on the picture.

Adaptations/Considerations:
Read a book in the closure
of the lesson that discusses
being unique and loved for it.

Display
the final “Pictures in Print” on a bulletin board.

Brainstorm the list of characteristics
as a class.

Resources:

Cummings, R. (1995). Only Mine.

Reflections of Me

, 1-2.

K.L. Welch, personal communication,
October 2, 1997.

Polacco, P. (1992).

Mrs. Katz
and Tush.

New York, NY: Dell Publishing.