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Manners Prior to the start of the unit prepare booklet covers for each student. This will keep all their materials for manners in one place. As the poems are presented they can be placed in the booklet. Worksheets and coloring pages can also be placed in the booklet.
Theme Ideas Discussion
Ideas - Please, Thank You, Table Manners ~When we ask for something we say "Please", when someone gives us something, we say "Thank You". ~Always use a tissue or your hand to cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough. Then throw the tissue away and wash your hands with soup and water. ~At lunch time, we know we wash our hands and sit up straight at the table. And we know that it is not polite to talk with our mouths full. ~Remember to use a napkin to wipe your face while you are eating. Chew your food quietly and with your mouth closed. You don't want to sound like your friend the cow when you eat! ~Ask for food to be passed to you, do not reach over someone to get something on the table. ~If you burp, say "excuse me" right away. It is not funny when someone burps. ~When we play together, everyone has a good time when we share, and are polite to each other. ~When we are playing with our friends, it is not polite to whisper about someone who is near by, because it might hurt their feelings. ~It is not polite to interrupt someone who is trying to talk. ~Everyone likes a person who has good manners. Good manners make you a person who is nice to know. ~When you need
to borrow something from a friend, politely ask your friend for the item,
don't just take the item from them. Polite Puppets - Students make paper bag puppets. Children like puppets because they can safely pretend to be someone else without fear of criticism. Students will use the puppets to put on brief skits that demonstrate good manners. You can use many of the theme ideas listed above. The puppets could also be used during snack time to demonstrate good manners. Phone
Manners - Have the children practice using the telephone, dialing
properly, and how to ask for their friend: "Hello, may I please speak
to _________," Also practice how to answer the phone,
"Hello" and "I'll get my mother". Older students
can pretend practice calling various places to ask for information: movie
theater for show times; store for the price of an item; office for the
hours of operation; etc. Art Projects Cover Your Nose
When You Sneeze Manners Poster
Cooking Happy Face Cookies - Provide unfrosted round sugar cookies for students. Students will each frost their own cookie. Supply face making items such as M&Ms, raisins, licorice whips, rice krispies, etc. Allow students to use the items to decorate their face cookie. The only requirement is to make the face a happy face! While working on the cookies discuss some things that make you feel happy or what others do for you that make you feel happy. Share Cooking - Every cooking project can be a manners and sharing experience. Each child had a "job" when we made cupcakes... I explained about how the cupcakes would not turn out if each of us did not share in the work. Pizza Face -
Prepare a pizza crust, spread on pizza sauce, add pepperoni eyes, cheese
hair, sausage nose and a tomato smile! (Or use whatever toppings you
like!) Bake according directions on the package and enjoy!
Great activity for the share cooking idea, everyone has a job to do. Games Manners Game - You
will need a collection of pictures cut from magazines, each showing
children or adults experiencing one of the emotions. Glue to identical
sizes of heavy construction paper or card stock. Some children have
no words to express how they feel. They need to hear such words as
"happy," "sad," "angry" and
"afraid" if they are to understand their emotional experiences.
Books The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners Manners by Aliki It's a Spoon, Not a Shovel by Carolyn Buehner Say Please by Virginia Austin Perfect Pigs: An Intro to Manners by Marc Brown & Stephen Krensky What Do You Say, Dear? and What Do You Do, Dear? by Sesyle Joslin Monster Manners by Bethany Roberts The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Links Manners Game - a game to make http://www.bry-backmanor.org/mannersgame.html Magic Words - a book to print and color http://www.leslietryon.com/3dcolorcutout/magicwords/rabbit.html
Wisconsin State Standards English/Language Arts A. READING/LITERATURE
C. ORAL LANGUAGE
Math D. MEASUREMENT
Social Studies C.
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND CITIZENSHIP:
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