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A buddy programme for primary aged students.

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Written by Toni McRae and Karen McDonald. Illustrated by Melinda Brezmen. © Ready-Ed Publications - 2000 Published by Ready-Ed Publications (2000) P.O. Box 276 Greenwood WA 6024 Email: info@readyed.com.au Website: www.readyed.com.au COPYRIGHT NO TICE NOTICE Permission is granted for the purchaser to photocopy sufficient copies for non-commercial educational purposes. However, this permission is not transferable and applies only to the purchasing individual or institution. ISBN 1 86397 287 0

Be My Buddy: Book 2

Be My Buddy - Book 2 RATIONALE: Our initial reason for organising the Be My Buddy programme was to develop a peer support reading programme that could be enjoyed by both groups of children. However, once the programme was up and running many other benefits became obvious.

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Younger students developed a strong bond with an older student or buddy. They could go to their buddy in the playground if in need of help. It also helped them to feel part of the school community as they knew “a big kid” and they also enjoyed visiting their buddy’s classroom on special occasions. For the older students, the Buddy Programme provided an opportunity for them to accept responsibility for a younger student. They also became aware of their own behaviour and realised they were a role model for their buddy. Working with the younger students also made the older students more aware of the need for patience and tolerance. It helped them remember how they once were themselves and the need to be gentle and understanding. They became more aware of others on the playground, and realised the need for clear instructions as the “little people” often needed instructions repeated. This, we felt, helped to develop the oral skills of the older students.

© ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons There have also been great benefits for those children who ares an o onlyn child, or• in the • f o r r e v i e w p u r p o s e l y case of the older students, the youngest in their family. By spending time with a younger student it has helped them to see things from a different perspective.

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As teachers, we have also found many positives in the programme. On special occasions such as birthdays, Easter and Christmas we have witnessed the exchanging of gifts and lasting friendships develop. We have also used the Buddy System for excursions to local events. It’s amazing how much easier it is to take young children down the street with two teachers and twenty-five helpers each holding the hand of their buddy! We have also performed combined acts at assemblies including music, poetry, dance and drama.

o c . c e he r We would strongly recommend you take the leap and tryt ao Buddy Programme. r s s r Remember there’s more to education than u justp the e three Rs. When you see the smiles on the little ones’ faces as “the big kids” arrive each week and you answer the older students who ask “are we doing an extra buddy lesson this week?” because you had to miss the one the previous week, you too will know the benefits of this type of programme. If, for some reason, you have to justify the programme to your principal, then take some photos regularly, put them in an album and let them see learning in progress!

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S Alphabet Food Search Food Labels Where Do Foods Come From? Around the World Healthy Meals Food Shopping Foods I Like Party Food Special Food

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Teachers’ Notes Under the Sea Sea Animals Favourite Sea Animals and Activities Name the Creatures Sea Sums A Little Fish Story What Am I? Fun at the Sea Colouring-in Competition How Many Sea Creatures?

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Teachers’ Notes

LEARNING OUTCOMES CHILDREN WILL: learn from each other in a caring and friendly environment; develop academic, social and personal skills; develop an awareness and a need to care for others; develop the skills of responsibility, understanding and tolerance; assist the younger students with their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills; display a greater awareness of the world around them; display an awareness of the concept and value of friendship.

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1. The programme is quite structured in nature. Two classes are involved in the programme - an older and younger class (e.g. Year 6 with a Year 1 class). Each child is given a partner or a buddy by the class teachers. These pairings are decided upon by both teachers after considering the special needs and capabilities of each child. The same partners are kept for the whole year so that a strong bond develops between the two students.

2. The classes meet once a week at a specific time and place, for 20 to 30 minutes a session. The children complete units of work together, with each unit being outlined to the older students prior to it commencing. This enables the older students to have a clear understanding of what is expected in each unit, as well as allowing time to discuss strategies and issues that may arise. A basic time frame to complete the unit is also established at this point.

3. Each unit of work is photocopied into a booklet form. When complete it is marked by the class teachers and sent home with the younger student.

4. Each unit culminates with a special activity such as an assembly performance, a small production, a visit to a park, a 3D classroom display, class celebration, a dress-up day, etc. This culminating activity specifically relates to the unit of work previously completed.

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The following strategies are used throughout the programme: Discussions Shared Reading Modelled Reading Shared Writing Modelled Writing Tracing and Copying Drawing and Colouring Peer Tutoring Constructing Group Work Whole Group Learning Parent Helpers “Hands On” Activities

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PARENTAL SUPPORT Parental involvement is encouraged throughout the programme by: attending performances, assisting with the setting up and cleaning up of activities, providing food for celebrations and culminating activities (such as picnics etc.), reading completed units of work. All parents are to be informed about the programme at the beginning of the school year or prior to commencing the programme by the class teacher. Page 4

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Sea Animals

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Circle the correct name for each sea animal, then colour the pictures.

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Favourite Sea Animals and Activities

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1. Draw your favourite sea animals.

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2. Draw your favourite sea activity.

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Name the Creatures

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List all the things you can see in the fish bowl. Colour the picture.

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Sea Sums

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1. Work out the sums below. 2. Colour the fish using the key. 2+1= 2+2= 5+2= 4+4= r o e t s B3+3= r 6+3= e oo p u k 4+1= 5+5= S

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A Little Fish Story

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What Am I?

1. A..........................is a fierce and dangerous sea animal.

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Fun at the Sea

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Write a sentence for each sea activity. Indicate whether you like doing the activity with a or a .

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Colouring-in Competition

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Colour the sea picture with your buddy. Make it life-like.

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How Many Sea Creatures?

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With your buddy, count how many of the different sea creatures there are.

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How many fish? .......................................... Colour them pink. How many starfish? ................................ Colour them purple. How many crabs? ....................................... Colour them blue. How many turtles?.................................... Colour them green. How many shells? ............................ Colour them all colours. Page 14

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Alphabet Food Search

Draw a picture or write the name of a food starting with each letter of the alphabet, e.g. Aa apple

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(Find a food with this in it.)

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Food Labels

Name the foods with your buddy. Write the name of each food on the line. Colour the food using correct colours.

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Where Do Foods Come From?

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List foods we get from the animals drawn below. Colour using correct colours. 2. sheep r o e t s Bo.................... r e p ok .................... u 1. S .................... fish .................... ....................

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People from different places eat different foods. Draw a line to match the traditional food to the correct country and person. Colour the pictures.

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Healthy Meals

With your buddy discuss food you could eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Draw a healthy meal and drink for each. List the foods shown in your drawings.

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Write some shopping lists of food that can be bought at the following places.

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Foods I Like

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Name and discuss each food you see below. Colour in all the foods you like to eat. Cross out all the foods you do not like to eat.

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Party Food

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You are having a birthday party. Draw 10 things you would like to eat at your party.

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We have special food for barbecues, parties, at Christmas and at Easter time. Discuss with your buddy when you would eat these foods.

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Jack and the Beanstalk

Draw the bean seed.

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Teacher Preparation 1. Read the story to your buddy. Organise bean seeds, 2. Collect 4 bean seeds, soil and a styrofoam cups and soil. styrofoam cup from the teacher. 3. Draw the bean seed in the first box below. r o e t 4. Plant the seeds. Asr they grow draw s Bothem in the e ok1 week”. boxes. Show the time taken, e.g. “After up

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Numbers and Colours

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1. How many pigs are there? ....................................... 2. Colour the 1st pig pink. Colour the last pig blue. Colour the middle pig yellow.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1

1. Read the story of Snow White to your buddy. 2. Write the sentences below in the correct order under each box. 3. Illustrate the sentences in the boxes.

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1. Read the story to your buddy. 2. Count and then colour.

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Use this key to colour the picture below. 1 = blue 3 = green 5 = brown 2 = red 4 = yellow 6 = pink

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Hickory Dickory Dock

With your buddy write r o e t some “ock” words. The s Bo r e help up pictures may o k you.

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Put the numbers on the clock.

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Fill in the gaps with ‘ock’ words.

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There Was an Old Woman

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1. Help your buddy to join the dots in order. 2. Read the colours. Colour these parts the correct colour.

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The Three Bears

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1. Count the bowls of porridge. ...........................

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Art Activity: The Three Bears

You will need • crepe paper - brown, red, green. • picture of bear - enlarge to suitable size. • glue

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Christmas

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Christmas Picture-Word Matching

Look at each Christmas picture, then write the correct word next to the picture.

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Christmas Counting

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Count the decorations on the tree, then colour the picture.

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Santa’s Helpers

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Colour and cut out the elves. Paste them onto a piece of paper from shortest to tallest. What is the secret message? .... .... .... .... ....

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Christmas “Find a Word”

Read the words you are looking for. Find these words in the puzzle. Colour each word a different colour as you find it.

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Read the names of Santa’s reindeer. Put the names into alphabetical order, then colour the reindeer.

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Be My Buddy: Book 2

Culminating Activities and Ideas

Under the Sea

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Cooking: make pizza, sandwiches, fruit salad etc. Visit a supermarket. Food tasting: put on a blindfold and guess the food. Visit a local fast food outlet. Have a picnic lunch in the park. Grow some vegetables. Make creatures using fruit and vegetables. Watch the video, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Collect pictures of food from magazines and make a book: “My Hungry Book” or “The Yum Yum Book”. • Make a class recipe book full of each student’s recipes.

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• Paint a sea mural. • Construct a 3D aquarium. • Go on an excursion to the beach. • Go fishing. • Make paper plate fish mobiles. • Sing sea songs: “Octopus’s Garden”, “One, Two, Three, Four, Five”, “Down in the Meadow”, “A Sailor Went to Sea” etc. • Have some guest speakers: Lifesavers, Sun Safe Cancer Council. • Make the classroom into an aquarium or ship.

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• Do some role-plays. • Recite nursery rhymes at assembly. • Have a dress-up day - come as a favourite character. • Draw/paint a favourite nursery rhyme or fairytale. • Have a quiz. • Paint life-sized characters. • Rewrite fairytales and nursery rhymes.

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Make bon-bons. Do some Christmas cooking. Read Christmas stories. Make wrapping paper: use vegetable prints, marbling, stencils. Make decorations. Make Christmas cards. Decorate a Christmas tree. Sing Christmas carols.

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