People Who Have Made a Difference in Our Lives!
Look at and read extracts from our class book and see who has made a difference in our lives....
Reflection:
- Resources: 'Someone I Admire' page from the 'Walk Talk Programme' for SPHE and a class booklet of 'The People Who Have Made a Difference in Our Lives' created by myself and the children.
- Teaching Activities and Ideas: This topic for SPHE may be introduced through the teacher using the first resource to share an experience and/or story of a person they admire to let the children know this is a safe environment where they can feel comfortable to share stories. This would also explain the word admire for the children. The first resource: the page 'Someone I Admire' may be place on the (interactive) white board as a form of scaffolding. Answers may be modeled and demonstrated through use of this resource. Care must be taken here to make sure that only appropriate adjectives are used when describing a person we admire. 'Class Rules' may be reminded here e.g. 'Treat others the way you would like to be treated'. The teacher may model filling in the resource page 'Someone I Admire' on the board to scaffold. The teacher may then invite the children to write/draw/talk about a person who has made a difference in their lives - someone they admire (options or combinations for outcome). The children may then present their outcome to the class and each piece of work could be put in to a display in or outside the classroom, digitally recorded or uploaded on to the class website as above and used as a resource. Parental permission is needed for these. Care and sensitivity must be taken during this lesson to respect any child sharing stories of someone they admire that might have passed away. A safe environment must be created and sustained at all times. These are again suggestions of teaching activities and ideas. There are many other ways of using these resources.
- Curricular Linkage: English (Reading, Writing and Oral Language), Visual Arts (Rod Puppets), History (story telling and skills), Geography (skills, sense of place) and Gaeilge ('Mo Laoch')