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Lesson Plans - Character Education

Creating Class Rules: A Beginning to Creating Community

This activity encourages students to become contributing, consensus-building members of their classrooms.

A Getting-Acquainted Activity Using My Teacher’s Secret Life

Children thrive in an environment where they are active participants in their learning. Working at home with their parents, students draw glimpses of their personal lives on a planning sheet, and use it in the class to create stapleless books about their lives that they then share with their classmates.

Get ready to go back to school!

By sharing information on their lives and dreams, students and teachers can build community in the classroom that will support literacy instruction throughout the school year.

First Day at School

What happens the first day at school? Let’s read a story. Students will then role play and retell the story.

Who Is Who?

This wonderful ice breaker, for the first day of class, will help students to look at themselves in relationship to others, and to get to know each other