Gather grade level appropriate books and folk-tale collections about friendship.
Gather information about storytelling techniques.
Gather audio/video tapes of good storytellers.
McCaslin, Nellie.
Creative Drama in the Classroom and Beyond. (Longman, 2000) ISBN:
0-8013-3073-4 (Literature based drama methods text for the K-6 grades with a chapter 13
on storytelling.)
Cooper, Pamela & Rives Collins. The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling.
(Gorsuch and Scarisbrick, 1997) Contains strategies and good audio/visual storytelling
bibliographies.
Explain the following:
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One of best awards gained during the Olympics is the gift of a new friend. People from
all over the world meet as perfect strangers and go home as friends! Friendship is one
of the Olympic Values that will be celebrated at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Friendships are formed when people cooperate together in groups for work or play. Examples
of such groups include: athletes on a team, news reporters and camera operators, people
making food and or score keepers at athletic events. Everyone has had the experience of
working with others to make a team. Many friends are made while working together.
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 these songs, dances, art, and stories with others as gifts and products of
friendship
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Explore friendship and the Olympic Games.
Build a list of stories and folk-tales about friendship.
Share reading aloud parts or all of the collected stories and folk-tales.
Create a fictional story describing two participants in the Olympics forming new friendships.
Create solo storytelling pieces from short folk-tales.
Create short storytelling pieces from longer works, e.g. "One day, while at the County Fair,
Wilbur and Charlotte saw this enormous pig next door!"
Give the gift of friendship through performing a story for a friend or several friends, and
especially new friends from around the world.
Explain how using storytelling has helped you to make friends or reward people for acts of
friendship.
Explain how working together on a story helped you to learn about someone else and use their
talents to achieve a goal.
As students have learned to express ideas about friendship through stories, find famous stories
that depict friendship. The class can create an exhibition of stories that shows how friends
are made during the winter.
Via the internet give the gift of storytelling to the children in a school from another country.
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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