{"id":16248,"date":"2023-11-13T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teacherlists.com\/blog\/?post_type=learning_library&#038;p=16248"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:39:53","slug":"helping-hands","status":"publish","type":"learning_library","link":"https:\/\/www.teacherlists.com\/blog\/learning_library\/helping-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Learning area: <strong>Social-Emotional, Art, Language Arts<\/strong><br \/>\nTime commitment: <strong>One 45-minute session or two 30-minute sessions<\/strong><br \/>\nBest for: <strong><span>Prekindergarten<\/span>, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teacherlists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/crayola-logo-lockup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11419 alignnone\" width=\"268\" height=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Build children\u2019s awareness of the many ways they can help others in school, home, and community. Children can contribute to a diverse, collaborative community by building social and self-awareness, being accepting, and supporting the community through responsible decisions. Self-awareness and responsible decision-making develop when students identify and display helping habits.<\/p>\n<h2>Materials:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Crayola <em>Colors of the World<\/em> \u2122Crayons<\/li>\n<li>Crayola <em>Colors of the World\u2122 <\/em>Markers<\/li>\n<li>Drawing Paper<\/li>\n<li>Bulletin Board or Roll of Paper<\/li>\n<li>Tape or Glue<\/li>\n<li>Sticky Notes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Instructions:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>CREATE.<\/strong> Children will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss ways their hands help others at school, home, and in the community. Examples are playing with a baby, planting and tending a garden, writing supportive notes to someone, clapping and singing a \u201cpick me up\u201d song, picking up others\u2019 toys to foster collaboration, drawing a \u201ccommunity-spirit\u201d mural, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>Identify which of the <em>Colors of the World<\/em> crayons or markers match the skin tones they would like to use in their art, using language that celebrates diversity and honors the varied colors that make up the community. Help one another trace hands and then add color and details to their art. On a separate piece of paper, use the crayons to draw one way their hands help, and write a one-sentence description beginning with \u201cThese hands\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PRESENT.<\/strong> Ask children to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Share their art and writing with other classmates, noting the similarities in how they help others at school, home, and in the community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RESPOND.<\/strong> Children will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sort into sets and subsets the common themes seen in their art. Use the illustrations to prompt a discussion about responsible decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>Work together to organize the art on a bulletin board or large paper mural that depicts the patterns they saw. They might cluster the most frequently illustrated types of help and provide a place of honor for the examples that appear less frequently and celebrate uniqueness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONNECT.<\/strong> Children will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Display the art in a place where others can view it and leave positive feedback on sticky notes. There can be a heading over the display with questions such as: What surprises you about how we help others? How could we help you? Photograph the display and feedback to share on the school\u2019s website or newsletter.<\/li>\n<li>Make a plan to expand the way students\u2019 helping hands will contribute in the next few weeks. The ways people help each other can always be extended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Learn More:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If this activity is done remotely, give families tips for how to display the artwork at home.<\/li>\n<li>There are many frameworks for social-emotional learning. CASEL Social Emotional Competencies are at <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/sel-framework\/\">https:\/\/casel.org\/sel-framework\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Doug Fisher, John Hattie, and Nancy Frey: <em>The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting<\/em>, June 2020<\/li>\n<li>Crayola offers lessons, projects, webinars, and other support at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crayola.com\/education\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.crayola.com\/education<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more about the benefits of art integration at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crayola.com\/for-educators\/~\/media\/Crayola\/For%20Educators\/Free%20Resources\/downloads\/PrincipalCrayola_SeptOct17_smallsp.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">PrincipalCrayola_SeptOct17_smallsp.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build children\u2019s awareness of the many ways they can help others in school, home, and community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11444,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[4188,4202,4178,4177,4179,4195],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.3 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Helping Hands - TeacherLists Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Build children\u2019s awareness of the many ways they can help others in school, home, and community. 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