Building Community Through Circle Time
Community Building Lesson Plans
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Class Bracelets
Age Group: Preschool
Objectives:
  • Children will work collaboratively to achieve a goal
  • Children will identify that their differences can work together
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Class Bracelets
CDA Competency Standard
III.9.1a
The classroom environment provides opportunities for children to practice cooperation.
a)      Materials, equipment and activities provided help children experience working and playing in harmony
Materials: 
  • Cut pieces of colorful straws
  • One pipe cleaner per child
Procedure: 
  1. Give each child a handful of straw pieces. Teacher should have the pile of pipe cleaners.
  2. The teacher will take one pipe cleaner and put a straw piece on it, then pass it to the next person. That person will put a straw piece on the pipe cleaner and so on and so forth until the pipe cleaner is filled with straw pieces. This should be done with all of the pipe cleaners.
  3. Students should understand that each bracelet is different because each person added something unique to it. This makes each bracelet different, but similar.
Assessment: 
  • Assess children based upon their willingness to participate and string the straw pieces on the pipe cleaners.
Extension:
  • Use this in smaller groups and have children give a compliment for each straw piece.
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    Classroom Bracelets Worksheet (5/8)

For Future Reference
When this training is over, it's going to be hard to remember all these lesson plans! We want you to get the most from this training, and continue to use this information in your classroom.  We have put the lesson plans in this course, that are produced by Successful Solutions, on our resource website, www.Lessons4Learners.com, where you can continue to access them after your training expires. 

Be sure to bookmark the direct link to the page where the community building lesson plans can be found for easy access in the future at:   
http://www.lessons4learners.com/community-building.html