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Book 5 Family and Friends
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Family & Friends
Student Textbook 5
Teacher's Manual 5
Ages 10 to 11
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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.
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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.
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