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Wednesday 10 July 2019
Elementary Positive relationships Intermediate The ‘Kindness Revolution’ Earn Your Band 6 Speaking confidently: A matter of preparation Tel: 03 7967 1388 Fax: 03 7955 4039 thestar.com.my/education facebook.com/niebrats
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Note to the teacher
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learning skills Our children are riding the great wave of technology today. They now have facts and procedures at their fingertips. Teachers have to equip their students with new skills that allow them to thrive in today’s global economy. The activities in The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education pullout combine literacy skills with current content to build this set of skills. The key below indicates the skills integrated into the activities in this pullout.
Critical thinking
� Identify � Reason � Measure � Organise
ELEMENTARY Kindness
Positive relationships SOMETIMES, a smile can turn your day around; so can a hug or a “thank you”. Think of something that happened to you in the last week that made you feel all warm, fuzzy and cared for. Write it down here. Share a few experiences as a class.
Activity
Everyone in your class should be friends with each other. Work in groups of five for the following activity. Complete the chart with as many things as you can think of within 10 minutes.
What a friend can do
What a friend will do
What friends like to do together
Creative thinking
� Imagine � Brainstorm � Connect � Invent
Problem solving
� � Research � Recreate � Present
These actions or “deeds” that we do for each other in a kindly way encourage and grow friendships. It’s not easy being kind. But repetitive behaviour (which means doing something that keeps repeating) is one way to pick up this value. No one likes to be around people who are cruel, intolerant or prejudiced.
NiE Activity
Question
Communicating
� Oral � Non-verbal � Written � Aural
Now, let’s play a game called “The Compliment Game”. Do you know what a compliment means? A compliment is a polite expression of praise or appreciation that one person offers another. Giving and receiving compliments involves graciousness. It is a good way of showing respect. Learning how to give and receive compliments helps others feel appreciated. It helps you to feel valued, too. Compliments have the power to lift, heal and inspire great
things in people. But remember, they must be done sincerely. When you are given a compliment, an appropriate response to that would be to say “thank you”. In this activity, each person scans The Star for a noun that starts with the same letter as his name. For example, if your name is Razali, look for a noun in The Star that spells “robot” or “rainbow”. Cut out the word and place it into a little bag or box that your
teacher is passing around. (If your name is Mohd Razali, look for two nouns: one that starts with the letter “m” and another with the letter “r”.) Once everyone has contributed a noun to the box, your teacher will begin passing the box around the class once again. Each student will pick one word. Take a few minutes to look for a person whose name begins with that letter. Write a sincere compliment
Collaborating
� listen � Contribute
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about this person. Once everyone has completed this activity, take turns standing up and offering the compliment to the person concerned. When your name is called out, do stand and offer a sincere “thank you” to the person who has offered you a compliment. Now, how did the compliment make you feel? Volunteer to share a few answers. (Note to teacher: make sure that everyone in class has been given a compliment.)
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ELEMENTARY Kindness
Kindness rules the world! YOU have the power to be kind. You may not be the best basketball player in your school or the richest tycoon in the world but you can be kind. The decision to be kind is in your hands. You can choose to treat people well, and to speak kindly to them. How so? Kindness isn’t about how you feel but about what you do.
Activity
What are some kind things that you have noticed lately – in your home, school or community? Let’s divide them into two categories: big acts and small acts. Share your answers as a class.
Big kind deeds
Small kind deeds
NiE Activity
While it is easier to recognise kind acts, we may not realise that some things that we say or do can cause other people to feel hurt. Garfield is a lovable tabby. He lives with his owner, Jon. Jon owns a pet dog called Odie, who isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer (meaning not very bright). Study the comic strips below. Then, answer the questions. Discuss your answers as a class once you are done. a. What is the kind act that Garfield is trying to do in this strip?
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b. How would you have felt if you were Odie in Frame Three?
c. Had you been in Garfield’s place, how would you have handled the situation?
(March 27, 2019) a. Were you impressed with Garfield’s declaration to give back to the world in Frame One?
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b. How did you think Garfield was going to do this after reading Frame One?
c. Garfield has a sense of entitlement. Do you know of someone who shares the same characteristics as Garfield? Explain your example to a partner. (April 9, 2019) a. What was your first impression of Garfield as you read the first two frames?
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b. Do you think Garfield knew he was walking on Jon?
c. Why do you think Garfield walked all over Jon on purpose?
(May 27, 2019)
Based on the three comic strips shown, is Garfield a pet you would like to adopt? Explain your reasons.
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