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FRANKLINCOVEY LESSON PLAN Thunder Cake By: Pam Almond and Debbie Falkner, A.B. Combs Elementary School Habit 1: Be Proactive Kindergarten Common Core State Standards Connections K.E.1 Understand change and observable patterns of weather that occur from day to day and throughout the year. K.E.1.1 Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the environment based on observations made by using one or more of their senses. K.E.1.2 Summarize daily weather conditions noting changes that occur from day to day and throughout the year. K.E.1.3 Compare weather patterns that occur from season to season. Learning Outcomes At the end of this lesson, students will understand that being proactive when you are afraid is important in helping you overcome your fears. They will make connections to the main character in "Thunder Cake" by naming things they do when they are afraid. Synergizing with a partner, students will make additional connections to the characters in the story by creating a thunder cake made with their own secret ingredient. Using a Lotus Diagram, the partners will “pass the lotus,” filling in at least four of the spaces with written clues about their secret ingredient, then share the clues with their classmates at the end of the lesson for them to guess their secret ingredient. Working together (synergizing) and being proactive make overcoming fears easier. Materials "Thunder Cake" by Patricia Polacco Sound bite of a thunderstorm Cake shaped affinity diagram of "When I Am Afraid I Can" Markers for Affinity Diagram Sticky notes for Affinity Diagram Individual (partner) lotuses for secret ingredient Individual (partner) cake shapes that open like a card to decorate and put the secret ingredient in Crayons Pencils Cake to eat at the end (For us, it must be purchased in a store.)

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FRANKLINCOVEY LESSON PLAN

Thunder Cake By: Pam Almond and Debbie Falkner, A.B. Combs Elementary School Habit 1: Be Proactive Kindergarten

Common Core State Standards Connections

• K.E.1 Understand change and observable patterns of weather that occur from day to day and throughout the year.

• K.E.1.1 Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the environment based on observations made by using one or more of their senses.

• K.E.1.2 Summarize daily weather conditions noting changes that occur from day to day and throughout the year.

• K.E.1.3 Compare weather patterns that occur from season to season.

Learning Outcomes At the end of this lesson, students will understand that being proactive when you are afraid is important in helping you overcome your fears. They will make connections to the main character in "Thunder Cake" by naming things they do when they are afraid. Synergizing with a partner, students will make additional connections to the characters in the story by creating a thunder cake made with their own secret ingredient. Using a Lotus Diagram, the partners will “pass the lotus,” filling in at least four of the spaces with written clues about their secret ingredient, then share the clues with their classmates at the end of the lesson for them to guess their secret ingredient. Working together (synergizing) and being proactive make overcoming fears easier.

Materials

• "Thunder Cake" by Patricia Polacco • Sound bite of a thunderstorm • Cake shaped affinity diagram of "When I Am Afraid I Can" • Markers for Affinity Diagram • Sticky notes for Affinity Diagram • Individual (partner) lotuses for secret ingredient • Individual (partner) cake shapes that open like a card to

decorate and put the secret ingredient in • Crayons • Pencils • Cake to eat at the end (For us, it must be purchased in a

store.)

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Learning Activities FOCUS AND REVIEW (2 minutes) Discuss different types of weather we experience and how that weather affects things you do, what you wear, how you feel, etc. Ask, "Who can name a kind of weather? What can you do when we have that kind of weather? What do you wear? How do you feel?" Discuss what proactive means and ways we are proactive in different kinds of weather. END IN MIND/OBJECTIVE (1 minute) Say, "Today we will make connections to the characters in the story by identifying a specific type of weather, the feelings you have associated with that kind of weather, and ways you can Be Proactive in dealing with those emotions. We will also synergize and use writing with a partner to organize our thoughts and ideas to give detailed clues about something that might help us feel better if we are afraid." TEACHER INPUT/GUIDED PRACTICE (Development of Lesson) (15 minutes) Play a sound bite of a thunderstorm and ask questions like: “What kind of weather do you hear?” “How do you feel when you hear it?” Show the cover of the book "Thunder Cake" by Patricia Polacco, and ask for predictions of what this book will be about. Say, “What kind of weather will they experience? How do you think they will feel?” Let’s read and find out." Read the book. During the reading of the story, stop and ask for predictions about what the secret ingredient is. After reading and discussing the story, students will complete, as a class, an affinity diagram, writing words and/or drawing pictures on sticky notes about what they can do to Be Proactive when they are afraid. These ideas will be sorted and categorized on the affinity diagram. Reinforce that many times people cry or hide in the closet when they are scared. We can Be Proactive and stop and think of better ways to overcome our fears. Upon completion of the affinity diagram, students will be paired up. Each set of partners will be given a cake shape that looks like the thunder cake in the story. (This cake will be folded like a card so that there are really two cake shapes joined in a hinge-like manner.)

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INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (15 minutes) Each set of partners will decide on a secret ingredient for their thunder cake. They will Synergize to draw the secret ingredient “inside the cake,” keeping the cake away from the other class members so the secret ingredient is indeed a secret. After the secret ingredient is decided upon and drawn, each set of partners will receive a Lotus Diagram with the words “Secret Ingredient” in the middle space. Taking turns and working together, they will "pass the lotus" back and forth until they have at least four of the spaces filled with clues about their secret ingredient. Each space is to have only one clue that will be either drawn, written in single words or phrases, or written in complete sentences according to the abilities of the students. When the Lotus Diagrams are completed, the students will gather on the carpet again. The partners who synergized will “Teach to Learn” and share their secret-ingredient clues. The rest of the students in the class will try to guess the secret ingredient. When all of the secret ingredients have been revealed, review ways to Be Proactive when we are afraid and connect that to the thunder cake with the secret ingredient in the story. In celebration of our successful lesson, the class will enjoy a “Covey Cake” of their own with one secret ingredient that the teach will describe for the students. This secret ingredient is not a tangible item, but one of character that is inside all of us. It is one that helps us in being proactive as we try to overcome our fears. It is called perseverance. Then the class will eat cake! ASSESSMENT (Ongoing During Partners Working Into Groups) Monitor students’ answers to questions, both orally and in their Affinity Diagram pictures, for understanding of the story and concepts (Covey habits of Be Proactive and Synergize) as well as for their ability to sort ideas according to one attribute on the affinity diagram. The students' level of expressive literacy will determine whether they draw, write words, or write complete sentences on the sticky notes. CLOSURE (10 minutes)  Reinforce that many times people cry or hide in the closet when they are scared. We can Be Proactive and stop and think of better ways to overcome our fears. End the lesson by eating cake to celebrate how we can Be Proactive by stopping and thinking of ways to not be afraid.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY (Optional) At the end of the lesson, if there is access to a DVD player, the teacher can show a segment from “The Sound of Music.” The clip’s content should be the part where the thunderstorm just begins in the movie, and the children begin coming into the Nanny’s room because they are scared due to the thunderstorm. The children and the nanny stop and think what they can do to ease their fears of the thunderstorm. They are proactive and begin making up a song, “My Favorite Things.” This can be included in a second day’s lesson where the class makes up a song or a poem they can sing or recite when they are scared.