RESPECT “Cayee and Tetsuo the Turtle” Lower Key Stage 2 LESSON PLAN Use Beyond the Book as a flexible lesson guide with a variety of options from which to choose based on your pupil’s interests and ability levels. Beyond the Book…provides ideas for educators to incorporate character development into the daily classroom curriculum. Activity and learning ideas are given for Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies/History and Art. Science
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Beyond the Book…provides educators with a range of open-ended questions aimed at helping pupils share and listen to create meaningful connections to character traits and enhance critical thinking, speaking and listening skills through facilitated guided discussion. Speaking & Listening
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Beyond the Book…provides educators with a range of specific reading skill activities aligned with literacy standards, to create meaningful connections to character traits and enhance critical thinking, reading, writing and research skills through various learning activities. Reading
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Beyond the Book…provides educators with a menu of engaging activities for primary school pupils with different preferences for learning and communicating information. These activities can be easily modified or adapted for children of many ages, maturity levels and academic ability levels. Differentiation Beyond the Book…provides teachers with learning activities and discussion prompts for pupils to share with their parents and guardians at home to reinforce character traits, promote positive family interactions, and to provide ways to keep parents and guardians connected to the classroom. Home Connection Activity
The intent of this story is to show children the following truths: Respect is treating yourself and others with dignity and honour. Honouring the rules of our families, schools and communities is showing respect. Recycling, reducing and reusing are all ways we can respect the Earth. Basic Story Vocabulary respect turtle reduce different politely
recycle hurt honey earth fairly
animals rally exclaims reuse
General Comprehension Activities Compare and contrast the points of view of the characters in the story related to caring for the earth and your own point of view of caring for the earth. Take a vote in the class to see which students agree with which character most. Create a class graph of your results. Retell and/or illustrate 3–5 events of the story in the order in which they occurred. Decide which events came at the beginning, middle and end of the story. Include the moral of the story. As a class, list and illustrate five different things that can be recycled.
Writing Prompts Explain to a new student why it is important to respect your school in a drawing with 1-3 sentences. Act out three different ways you can respect your classmates at school.
Facilitated Discussion Prompts Tetsuo the Turtle explains to Cayee that even though people may look different and have different beliefs, it is important to treat them with respect. Why? We all share the planet. Tell one way you can show respect for it today. How did Cayee show two kinds of respect when she asked another student to help her get kids to recycle? We show respect when we honour the rules of our family, school and community. Why are rules created? Behaving politely is a way to show respect. Tell about how someone behaved politely towards you today. How did it feel? Curriculum Connections Make Respect one of the school's behavioural expectations and promote its meaning around the school. Create a set of specific respectful behaviours for each setting within the school and place them on posters to help other students understand the meaning of respect. Before Tetsuo the Turtle taught Cayee about respect, she actually showed respect for him. How? Discuss. Discuss ways to show respect for each other in school and in the community. Make a list. How are lemonade cans and bottles recycled? Research how cans are recycled, watch a YouTube video about it and have students draw and label a timeline of the process. Create a 4R bulletin board. Under the headings Respect, Recycle, Reduce and Reuse, ask students to write examples or draw pictures to place under each word.
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Home Connection Activities
Work with your family to create a home recycling plan. Map out the plan with your family and share it with other teachers and students in your classroom. Talk with your parents and guardians about ways to reuse and rework resources at home. Decide on a plan and then share that with another family member or neighbour. Discuss with your parents or guardians how respect should be shown at home. Decide on a list of respectful behaviours for use while in school. Share with your parents the reasons why differences in people may or may not be accepted by some. Explain to them how it feels to be treated with respect and dignity. Draw your favourite part of the Respect Rally and tell your parents or guardians about it.
WE CONNECTED! We _____________________________________________________________ and talked about____________________________________________________________ together. Our favourite part of the story was when ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________. I circled the house above of the activity we completed. Pupil Name:_______________________________________________ Date: __________ Parent/Guardian:_________________________________________ Date: ___________ Copyright © 2019 Cloud9World™ Corp. www.cloud9worlduk.com Cloud9World™ and all related titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Cloud9World™ Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by Cloud9World UK Ltd., United Kingdom