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At a Glance:
| Grades: | 3, 4, 5 |
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| Subject: | SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) |
| Topic: | Empathy, First Day of School |
| Lesson Length: | 45 mins - 1 hour |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will think about how they and others are feeling about the return to school.
What should students know before this activity?
The comic prompts students to empathize with a number of feelings kids may have about returning to school, and consider how to be a good friend to their classmates.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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Have students discuss how they felt on the first day of school.
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Were they nervous?
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What kinds of things made them feel better?
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How can we help others feel better on the first day?
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What will students do?
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Have students imagine that they have been placed in a group with two of the characters in the comic.
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How do they think the conversation might go?
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What would each student need to hear in order to have a great day?
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Using the sample comic as a guide, have students make a comic that includes themselves and two friends talking on the first day of school.
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How do they think the conversation might go?
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How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
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Organize students in groups of four to share and discuss their comics before giving groups an opportunity to share with the class.
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Encourage students to share how they're feeling about being back in school and ways to support classmates.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Provide printout of the sample comic for student reference.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
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