Who We Are:
Ms. Erika's
Kindergarten PYP Unit
Central Idea:
Friends help us to learn new things everyday.
Lines of Inquiry:
Discovering and sharing different things about myself
My friends have different qualities
What can I learn from
my friends?
Overall Expectations:
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Students will be able to talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of their family members.
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Students will be aware that other children may not like the same things as they do. They will be sensitive to this.
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They will recognize similarities and differences between themselves and their friends.
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They will understand that having differences is not bad.
Transdiciplinary Skills:
Social Skills:
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Accepting responsibility
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Respecting others
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Cooperating
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Resolving Conflict
Research Skills:
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Observation
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Collecting information
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presenting information
Communication Skills:
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Listening
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Speaking
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Non-Verbal
Self-Management Skills:
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Spatial awareness
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codes of behavior
Throughout the unit, students will work to improve:
Key Concepts:
Form:
The concept Form was used at the beginning of our Unit to encourage the students to talk about themselves and the things they like doing. We spoke about the characteristics of friendship and what it implies to be a friend (Social norms).
It helped us to focus on the students similarities and differences between them and point them out to the students; in other words: "Who am I and how am I similar or different to you".
Function:
Once the children had shared information about themselves, they had the opportunity to find things in common and differences between themselves. We spoke about being respectful and tolerant towards differences.
Students learned to responsibilities of taking part of a relationship, with the main idea being that we need to have an active role in a relationship, such as being polite, be a good listener, share, etc.
PYP Attitudes:
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Respect
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Tolerance
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Empathy
PYP Learner Profile:
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Caring
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Open-Minded
Assessment:
"Friendship Wall"
Pictures display- about children helping their classmates, e.g. A picture of Joe showing Peter how to make a paper airplane.
Children will invite their parents to view the Friendship Wall. Children need to choose at least two pictures to talk about. One picture needs to be about them helping or teaching something to their classmate. The second picture needs to be about a classmate helping the or another classmate.
Photo Gallery:
