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Expressing Joy

Lesson 11

JOY Making local tambourines

Learning Goals

1. I can name ways to express joy.
Preparation:
  1. Collect old clean wrapping paper, scraps of fabric or wrappers, magazines or printed materials such as calendars or invitation cards, and anything else that is colourful that can be used to decorate the tambourines (Step 7)
  2. Create a tambourine that is well decorated as an example (Step 7)
  3. Think of any example of a dream you have had that you can share with pupils, or ask someone you know who has had a dream, or make up a dream to illustrate what a dream is (Step 2)
  4. Think of an example of when you or someone you know has dreamt of something impossible happening that you can share with pupils. (Step 2)
  5. Collect the sand, small stones, and/or grain that will be used for pupils’ homemade tambourines. It is better to have these materials in the classroom before the lesson begins.
Materials:
  • Magazine: The Boy who could not Dream [Dowload]
  • Small empty bottle
  • Enough water to overflow the bottle
  • Tray to put below the bottle to collect the overflowing water
  • Tambourine
  • 1 plastic bottle or tin per child (to make a tambourine in Step 5). Each container needs a lid
  • Sand, small stones, and/or grain (e.g., beans or rice) to fill each plastic bottle or tin about half full
  • Clean old wrapping paper, wrapper or other fabric scraps, magazines or printed materials, and others to decorate the tambourines
  • Glue (Top Bond is ideal)
  • Brush sticks for the glue
  • Child-safe scissors
  • Markers
  • Tambourine example
Procedures
Step 1 (5 min): Review and Introduction
Ask
  1. What character strength have we been learning about?
    2. Joy
  2. What does Joy mean?
    3. Choose to respond to situations with happiness.
  3. What did you learn about joy last week?
    4. Let 2 to 3 pupils share
  4. What are some things that bring you joy?
    5. Let some pupils share
Write Write the Learning Goals on the board. Read the I-Can statements.
Step 2 (10 min). Read The Boy Who Could Not Dream
Ask
  1. What does it mean to dream?
    2. Acknowledge children’s answers even if wrong.
Explain A dream is like a story that happens in your mind while you are sleeping.

Share a dream you or someone else you have had. Emphasize that it was while you were sleeping, and end the example with, “and then I woke up.”
Ask
  1. Do you have dreams? Raise your hand if you have had a dream.
  2. What is a dream you have had recently?
    3. Let 1 or 2 pupils share
  3. Are dreams always true? Is it possible to dream something that is impossible?
    4. Yes
Explain Share a dream of something that is impossible.

We are going to read a story about a boy who wanted to dream. He wanted to be able to tell stories of wonderful and impossible things. He tried many different ways to get a dream. Do you want to hear about the boy who could not dream?
Share Share the magazine.
Read Read aloud The Boy who could not Dream.
Step 3 (7 min). Comprehension Questions
Ask
  1. What did Grandfather Joseph want to do when he was a little boy?
    2. Dream
  2. Was Joseph able to dream?
    3. No
  3. What did Joseph’s cousin tell him to do to dream?
    4. Eat a meal of eba, egusi and pomo.
  4. Did the little boy dream after eating that meal?
    5. No
  5. What did Joseph’s father say would give him dreams?
    6. A bedtime story.
  6. Did Joseph dream after the bedtime story?
    7. No
  7. What did the Joseph’s grandmother tell him to do to dream?
    8. Sleep backwards.
  8. Did Joseph dream after doing what his grandmother told him to do?
    9. No
  9. What did his mother tell him to do?
    10. Ask God for a dream
  10. After he asked God for a dream, did Joseph dream?
    11. Yes
  11. How did Joseph feel after finally getting the dream that he worked so hard for?
    12. Joyful/Happy
  12. When Joseph woke up, how did his face show that he was feeling joy?
    13. Smiling
  13. What can we learn about joy from the story?
    14. Let a few pupils respond
Explain Joseph wanted to dream, but it was difficult for him. He tried many different ways to get his dream. He had to work hard for his dream. Joseph persevered to achieve his hope of a dream. Finally, Joseph dreamt, and that brought him joy. He felt so much joy inside that he expressed it with a smile on his face.

When we want something, like Joseph wanted his dream, it is good to keep working hard until we get it. When we get something we have worked hard for, we feel joy. We can feel so much joy that it overflows out of us and we have to show our joy – like Joseph showed his joy by the smile on his face.
Step 4 (5 min). Sing Egwak chang yi ki lan Song
Guide Guide pupils in singing Egwak chang yi ki lan.

We are happy, that is why we are laughing.
We are happy, that is why we are dancing.
We are happy, that is why we are jumping.
Ask
  1. 1. In this song, there are three things that we do to show that we are joyful. What are they?
    2. Laugh, Dance, Jump
Explain This song tells us ways to show our joy: by laughing, dancing, and jumping. This is called expressing our joy.
Step 5 (20 min). Direct Instruction
Guide Present the bottle.
Ask
  1. What is this?
    2. Bottle
  2. What can we put in this bottle?
    3. Water, Juice, etc.
  3. Let’s imagine we are filling up this bottle with water. But if we put too much water into the bottle, what will happen?
    4. The bottle will overflow.
Demonstrate Demonstrate pouring water into the bottle.

When the bottle starts to overflow, dramatically exclaim: Oh no! The bottle is overflowing. There is too much water, and the bottle cannot contain it all.
Explain When there is too much water for a bottle, the bottle overflows. In the same way, when we are filled with joy, our hearts cannot contain all of the joy and it overflows. This is called expressing our joy. Jinan Joy wants to teach us more about how to express our joy.
Guide Instruct pupils to point to Jinan Joy.
Read Read what Jinan Joy says.
Ask
  1. What does it mean to express joy?
    2. Show our joy
  2. There are 3 ways we can express our joy. What are they?
    3. Words. Looks. Actions
ExplainLet’s learn how we can express our joy with our words, looks, and actions.
Guide and Ask Under Joyful Looks, have pupils point to each picture separately. When they are pointing to the picture, ask:
  1. Who is this?
    2. (e.g., baby, girl, etc.)
  2. Is this person joyful?
    3. Yes
  3. How can you tell that he/she is joyful?
    4. Smile, etc
Explain Each person here is joyful. They are expressing their joy by their faces. They are smiling. We are all going to express joy by our faces. Turn to a partner. Show your partner your best joyful expression.

Give pupils time to show their joyful expression to a partner.

Now turn to a different partner. Show them your best joyful expression. Let pupils share their joyful expression to a different partner. Continue to repeat with different partners if pupil attention and time allows.
Guide and Ask Under Joyful Actions, have pupils point to each picture separately. Ask
  1. What is this person doing?
Then read the action. Guide pupils in doing the action (e.g., laughing, jumping for joy, etc.)
Guide Read the Joyful Words section
Ask
  1. What are words we can use to express joy?
    2. Happy. Glad. Thankful. Joyful. Delight.
  2. Who can use one of these words to express their joy?
    3. Let a few pupils share a sentence with these words about anything they are joyful for.
ExplainWe have just learned many ways to express our joy. Let’s make the Jinan Joy signal as another way to express our joy!
Step 6 (5 min). Read Tambourines
Guide Present the tambourine.
Ask
  1. What is this?
    2. Tambourine, kacha-kacha, etc.
  2. What is this used for?
    3. Music, Dancing, etc.
  3. Where do people use the instrument?
    4. Weddings, Celebrations, Parties, Festivals, etc.
  4. How do people feel when it is played?
    5. Joyful, Happy, etc.
Explain We are going to read about tambourines and joy.
Guide Read Tambourines on page 3 of the magazine.
Ask
  1. One way to express our joy is by making music. How many of you make music when you are joyful? Raise your hands if you make music when you are joyful.
  2. What instruments do you use to make music when you are joyful?
    3. Let a few pupils share.
  3. Sometimes we use instruments like drums and flutes. Other times we can make local instruments, like the Goemai ethnic group that makes local instruments out of gourds. What are some ways you make local instruments or instruments out of any materials that you find around?
    4. Let a few pupils share.
Explain We are going to make our own tambourines, though with different materials. Instead of using local materials, we are going to reuse materials, just like we re-used materials to make our Hopeful Heads.
Step 7 (30 min). Joy Tambourine Craft
Present Present the example tambourine.

Demonstrate how it can be used as a tambourine.
Guide Share one bottle/container to each pupil.

Guide pupils in filling the containers less than half full with the sand/stone/grains, and sealing the lid on top.

Let children decorate their tambourines with the old materials by cutting, gluing, and colouring.
Step 8 (5 min). Play with Tambourines.
Guide Lead children in one or two games with their tambourines.

One game is Repeat Me where you make a simple rhythm with a tambourine and have the children repeat it back to you.

Another game is Fast, Slow, Loud, and Soft. In this game, you say one of these four words, children shake in that way. When you say Loud, they shake their tambourine loud. When you say Fast, they shake it fast. And so on.
Step 9 (5 min). Conclusion
Read Read the I-can statement from the board.
Ask
  1. Can you name ways to express joy?
    2. Let pupils respond with thumbs-up or thumbs-down
  2. How can you express joy with your actions?
    3. Dance, Laugh, Shout, Jump, Tell someone
  3. How can you express joy with your face? Show me how you express joy with your face.
  4. What are some words you can use to express your joy?
    5. Glad, Joyful, Happy, Delight, Thankful
  5. What did you learn about joy today?
    6. Let a few pupils respond
Step 10 (30 min). Preparing for Joy Party
Note: Again, make an effort to get everyone involved in the party. Try to give children different roles than what they had in the previous two celebrations.
Explain We have learned a lot about joy. We have learned and grown in our character. Just as we celebrated what we learned about perseverance and hope, we are also going to celebrate what we have learned about joy! For our joy celebration, we are going do something like a birthday party.
Ask
  1. Who should we invite as special guests to our Joy Party?
    2. What is Joy?
    Let pupils consider who to invite.
Explain We are now going to assign roles. Everybody will participate in the joy party.
Assign pupils to the following.
  • Introduction. Select one pupil to read the brief introduction to the Joy Party.
  • Dramma. Select five pupils to create a birthday cake drama. Identify something that can be used as a prop for the birthday cake, such as a carton. One person will be the celebrant, one person will bring out the cake, and the other three will be people attending the birthday party. The person should bring out the cake. The other three will sing happy birthday, and then the celebrant will pretend to blow out the candles.
  • Choir Master. Select one pupil to lead the singing of Egwak chang yi ki lan
  • Speech. DWho can explain what a calabash is?
  • Vote of Thanks. Select one pupil to give the vote of thanks. Encourage them to write out what they will say.
  • Create Invitations. Have some pupils write/colour invitations to give to the invited guests with the date, time, and venue of the celebration.
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