Making+a+Resolution

Submitted by Courtney Forbes, First Grade, Baxter Elementary

Standards: 2D

Materials: · Calendar · Resolution paper (see below) Time: 45-60 minutes When to teach: January Goals: To help the children select a resolution (goal) and identify ways of reaching said resolution.

Lesson: Read and discuss the standard. Display calendar and explain with the new year it is traditional to make a resolution. Discuss what a resolution is and create background knowledge by soliciting students ideas of resolutions that they have heard or think would be good ones. Students pick one resolution to try and accomplish within the quarter. They then need to brainstorm ways of actually accomplishing this resolution.

Students hang their resolutions above their cubbies or laminate them and hang them from the front of their desks so that they can see them daily.

Assessment: Score papers to show understanding of the standard. Include their steps to accomplishing their resolution in the score. As a follow up, have the students revisit their resolutions in one month and discuss successes or ways to still reach resolutions. Finally, at the end of the quarter, discuss the resolutions that students were able to keep or not and discuss why.

Name:

__My Resolution for 2009 is__ _

__I choose this resolution because___

I can do these 5 things to help me keep my resolution: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.