Sharing with others

In this guidance lesson plan for grades 2 and 3 students will focus on the concept sharing and using their manners. They will complete an activity and then discuss their thoughts.

A lesson plan for grades 2–3 Guidance

By Janelya M. Lewis

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• Learn more about manners and sharing.

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Learning outcomes

Students will:

• identify why sharing is positive
• demonstrate the understanding of sharing by completion of sentence stems and illustration

Classroom time required

35 minutes

Materials needed

• Little T Learns to Share by Terrell Owens ISBN 978-1-933771-20-5
• Paper, pencil, crayons, and markers
• A newspaper article that illustrates service to others

Activities

1. Gather students together to read Little T Learns to Share.
2. Take a book walk by examining the cover. Have students to anticipate what the story may entail.
3. Read the story.
4. When you finish the book, discuss what happened in the story.
5. Ask questions such as: Why wouldn’t Little T share? How did the other children feel when Little T wouldn’t share? What did Little T’s mother tell him about being selfish? What happened when Little T did share? (These questions can be modified as needed for your classroom).
6. Next, ask the students whether they have known anyone who did not share with them and how it made them feel.
7. Discuss using manners (e.g. please, thank you) when sharing. Discuss reasons it is important to use manners when sharing.
8. Distribute paper to students.
9. Each student will complete the following sentence stem. I can share with others by ________. Write this sentence stem on the board for students to copy down.
10. Students will also illustrate the sentence stem on the paper.

Assessment

Ask students to define sharing. Read the selected newspaper article(s) aloud to students. Ask students to identify sharing actions in article(s).