Assemble children's books and dance videos that focus upon the theme of friendship.
Assemble information about the Olympic value of friendship. This may be a story about a
friendship between athletes or friendships that may have occurred because of competition at
the Olympics or other competitive event.
Assemble stories of the good that comes into people's lives through friendship.
Video resources of dances that demonstrate friendship.
Children's literature that focus upon the theme of friendship.
Explain the following:
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The best prize won during the Olympics is a new friend. People from all over the world
meet as perfect strangers and go home with as friends! Friendship is one of the Olympic
Values that will be celebrated at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Friendship results from people cooperating together. Examples of cooperation creating
friendships might include: athletes on a team, news reporters and camera operators, people
making food, and score keepers.
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Students will have worked with others to make a team. Many of their friends are made while
they work and play together.
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At the elementary level the Olympic Value of Friendship has great meaning for the student.
It is an integral part of their daily lives and development.
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Discuss with students:
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Who are our friends? How do we meet or create new friendships? How can I become a better
friend to someone? The arts touch all aspects of a child's being; the physical, emotional,
intellectual, and social to name a few.
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As children interact within a structured, creative problem-solving activity, they develop the
social skills necessary to help form friendships. Learning activities build upon friendship:
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As an act of participating fully with others in creating or performing pieces of art
that celebrate activities friends do together.
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By sharing songs, dances, art, and stories with others as gifts and products of friendship.
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Explore the movements of meeting, circling, and parting using loco motor movement.
Discuss spatial words in terms of friendship. Expand this vision to include the concept of countries
coming together to compete in the Olympic Games.
Explore activities performed with a friend during recess. (Swinging, jumping, and throwing). Create a
short sequence with a partner that demonstrates this activity.
Create and perform a sequence with a partner (friend) of meeting, circling, performing the
friendship activity, and parting.
Discuss how friendships are created when joining together in a common project or activity.
Explain how using dance has helped you to make friends or reward people for acts of friendship.
Explain how working together on a dance helped you to learn about someone else and use their
talents to achieve a goal.
Now that students have learned to express ideas about friendship through dance, try to find
famous dances that depict friendship in folk dances, ballet, scenes in musical theatre, movies,
and other dance forms. You and your class might create an exhibition of dance that shows how
friends are made.
Via the internet you can give the gift of dance to the children in a school from another
country you may have adopted which is sending athletes to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in
Salt Lake City.
Educators will want to preview these web sites carefully.
Songs
Here are ideas for songs from the Silver Burdett Ginn Music Connection Series. Most of the
songs are appropriate for numerous grade levels.
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Kindergarten
Hello, Ev'rybody p. 40 (movement suggested in lesson)
Hurray! I Like It Here p. 4
We Give Thanks p. 96
Second Grade
Best Friends p. 116
Donne-moi la main (Give Me Your Hand) p. 118
Ev'rybody's Welcome p. 149
How Good and Joyous p. 32
Little Bit More of Love p. 209
That's What Friends Are For p. 117
Working Together p. 160
You're a Friend of Mine p. 205
Third Grade
American Children p. 130
It's a Small World p. 16
Make a Rainbow p. 128
The Jasmine Flower p. 58
The Surprise p. 32
We Come to Greet You in Peace (Hevenu Shalom Aleichem) p. 124
Fourth Grade
Candle on the Water p. 98
Common Ground p. 192
Happy Days p. 62
Make New Friends p. 275
Music, Music, Music p. 77
Side by Side p. 85
Song for the Children p. 4
That's How I'd Be Without You p. 42
The Answer Lies in... p. 96
Cantare, Cantaras (I Will Sing, You Will Sing) p. 226
Give a Little Love p. 18
Hineh Mah Tov p. 279
Lean on Me p. 128
Love in Any Language p. 216
We Are the World p. 4
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