Book 5: Family and Friends PDF Print

Book 5 Family and Friends

Sample PDF

Purchase Student Textbooks and Teacher's Manuals.

Family and Friends Teacher's Manual

The world of a ten-to-eleven-year-old is an exciting place. They have a newfound ability in perspective-taking, a strong personal sense of right and wrong, a capacity for self-doubt, a growing awareness of the importance of peers, new insights into family relationships, and burgeoning physical abilities.

The realistic stories contained in Family and Friends enter that exciting world and help the young person cope with challenges like competition in sports, choosing between right and wrong in front of one’s friends, developing new skills, accepting defeat and victory, learning from mistakes, maintaining relationships in the family, and the difference between courage and foolhardiness. Each story contains a subtle lesson in character and is accompanied by thought-provoking Questions for Reflection and Exercises that bring the lesson to fruition in the young mind.

Family and Friends / Student Textbook 5 / Teacher's Manual 5 / Ages 10 to 11

Chapter 1: I Am Valuable

Even though I stand taller than all of the girls and boys in my class and some call me “lanky” or think that I must play basketball because I am so tall, I still love me. Even though I am skinny and not a straight A student, and I don’t wear fancy name brand clothes, I still love me. Even though I may not bring “special” lunches to school with syrupy, sweet contents because my parents care about my health, and other students say I eat rabbit food, I still love me. I think I’m worth a lot.

Lesson Plan

Ask students to take out a piece of paper and draw a large oval on it. Explain that this is to be how they see themselves—their inner mirror or self-image. (Or you could ask them to close their eyes and imagine a mirror image in it.)

Ask students to write or mentally write the following affirmations inside the outline of the mirror:

Ask students to write or mentally write the following affirmations inside the outline of the mirror:

I am good.

I believe in myself.

I know I have good qualities.

I am loved.

I am strong inside.

 
Joomla Templates by Joomlashack