Personal Narrative:
Have students write a paragraph that tells about a time they helped a friend or family member.
Activities
Grades K–2: Art/Language Arts
Personal Outline
With the aid of older students or adults, trace the students’ bodies on long lengths of paper. Then have the students decorate the shapes by adding facial details and clothing. Students can use markers that are colored, if available, real pieces of fabric. Have the learning students dictate or write stories about themselves to accompany their silhouettes. Students may also label parts of the body.
Grades K–1: Social Studies
On the Block Where I Live
Students will love identifying specific characteristics of these own neighborhoods and sharing the information and knowledge with their classmates.
Grades K–2: Language Arts
Have each student come up with a “me” bag including favorite toys and other personal objects (sports item, trophy, doll, book, and so forth) which have special importance. Then have a presentation that is“me by which students show and discuss the need for the things with classmates.
Grades K–2: Language Arts
Self-Portrait
Show students a variety of famous self-portraits. Then have students study themselves in a mirror and create their own self-portraits. Each student can dictate or write facts that are important his or her picture.
Grades K–2: Language Arts/Art
A Story of your Own
As students grow about themselves and the people around them up they learn more. Have them create their very own books that are personal. You might want to keep consitently the books in a classroom library for students to learn.
Grades K–2: Science
Fingerprints
Have a class discussion on individual physical differences, such as for instance hair and eye color, height, and right- and left-handedness. Explain that although some people may have certain characteristics in common, everyone has a set that is unique of. Make fingerprints of some or all your students, using a stamp pad (the type that is washable and paper. Have the students examine the fingerprints closely to see how these are typically different. Provide magnifying glasses if at all possible.
Grades K–2: Social Studies
Role Drawings
Students will develop a better appreciation of this roles they fill in their families and community by showing a few of the different facets of their lives. Have the learning students draw pictures to share with you with classmates.
Grades K–2: Art
Me to a Tee
Have the students use their skills that are artistic create Me-shirts that express something important about themselves.
Grades K–2: Social Studies/Mathematics
Capsule Bio
Have the students record and graph details about themselves in addition to class to be a part of an occasion capsule. At the end of the year, have the students open the capsule to observe how they will have changed.
Grades K–2: Art
Me in Pictures
Students may have fun making collages that are personal things they consider important.
Grades K–2: Art/Social Studies
Classroom “Squares”
Have students share special events from their classmates to their lives by making a classroom quilt.
Grades K–2: Language Arts
The “stars” and role models in your students’ lives tend to be their friends that are personal household members, teachers, and classmates. Have the students compliment these special people by collecting their autographs.
Grades 1–2: Science
Measuring Up
Provide the students an amount of string, yarn, or rope to assess the length, width, and circumference of various parts of the body. Challenge the students to locate similarities and differences in the measurements they make.
Grades 1–2: Art/Social Studies
Personal Dates
With the help of an adult student, friend, or member of the family, have the students create personal calendars of special dates associated with people that are special their lives.
Grades 1–2: Social Studies/Art
Collect Them All!
All the players that are big-league them. Your students can, too. Have the learning students create personalized trading cards to keep or share along with their friends.
Grades 1–2: Social Studies
Birthday Pages
Have your students create pictures to celebrate themselves and their birthdays.
Grades 1–2: Social Studies
A of Virtues year
Have your students create a calendar illustrating character that is positive.
Grades 1–4: Language Arts
Happy to Meet You!
Have students become familiar with their brand new classmates and then write acrostic poems about their new friends.
Grade 2: Language Arts
“Me” Word Finds
Have students find “All About Me” words hidden in a puzzle.
- All About Me (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/september/pdf/allaboutme_wf.pdf
- All About Me Answer Key (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/september/pdf/allaboutme_wf_key.pdf
Grade 2: Language Arts
Words Within a Word
Have students see how many words they are able to find in the is edubirdies.org legit word “myself” (“my,” “self,” “me,” “fly,” “yes,” “elf,” “elm,” “elms”).
Grade 2: Social Studies
An Individual Welcome!
Place your students to the office as a team. Have them create a “welcome book” to assist new students feel at ease and to express personal views of the school and themselves.
Grade 2: Social Studies/Math
Different and similar
Have students explore the ways in which they are similar and various from one another.
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