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Searching for Joy

Lesson 10

Learning Goals

1. I can state the need to search for joy.
Preparation:
  1. Hide sweets around the classroom or school compound (Step 2).
  2. Consider the best location to play the Whose Armpit game and any additional rules you need for your context (Step 6).
Materials:
  • Magazine: The Magic Flute [Dowload]
  • Together we win (Song) [ ▷ Play ]
  • 1 to 2 Sweets per child
  • Egusi seed, or other small local object that can be used for the Whose Armpit game. The object should be able to hide in a child’s fist without being obvious (e.g., bean, atile seed, pen cap, etc.)
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Procedures
Step 1 (5 min): Introduction
Ask
  1. What character strength did we learn about last week?
    2. Joy
  2. What does Joy mean?
    3. Choosing to respond to situations with happiness.
  3. What did you learn about joy last week?
    4. Let 2 to 3 pupils share
Write Write the Learning Goal on the board. Read the I-Can statement.
Step 2 (10 min). Read Searching for Joy
Ask Does eating sweets bring you joy? Raise your hands if eating sweets brings you joy.
Explain Since eating sweets brings you joy, let’s go on a search for sweets. I have hidden (1 or 2) sweets per person. Once you have found and collected (1 or 2) sweets, then you cannot find any more. However, if you have found where some sweets are still hidden, you can help give joy to your mates by giving them tips on where they can find sweets. You cannot find the sweets for them, but you might say, “Check underneath teacher’s desk for a sweet.” Do not tell them exactly where the sweet is, but give them a hint.

When you find a sweet, do NOT eat it yet. We are going to eat them once we are all back at our desks.

Explain the boundaries for where you have hidden the sweets, e.g., within the classroom, outdoors within a specific area, etc.
Guide Give children time to search for the sweets.

Then have pupils return to their desks with their sweets.
Ask
  1. Sweets bring us joy, right? Give me a rolling clap if you are feeling joy right now.
  2. To get the sweet, did I just give it to you? Did I just put it in your hand?
    3. No
  3. What did you have to do to get the sweet?
    4. Search for it
  4. When you found your sweet, how did you feel?
    5. Joyful, Happy, Excited, etc.
Explain ust like you had to search for the sweet, oftentimes you also have to search for joy. Search means that you have to look carefully for something, just like we had to look carefully for the sweets.

Because we searched for and found joy, let’s make the Jinan Joy signal!
Guide Let pupils eat their sweets.
Step 3 (5 min). Read The Magic Flute
Ask
  1. When you hear music, does it make you feel joyful? Give me a thumbs-up if music makes you joyful.
  2. What kinds of instruments do you know that make music?
    3. Let pupils answer
  3. We are going to read a story about a flute. Who can describe what a flute is?
    4. Let one or two pupils describe a flute.
Explain A flute is a musical instrument that you blow through a hole, and it makes a beautiful noise. We are going to read a story about a magic flute that filled everyone with joy. But one day, the flute disappeared, and everyone in the village became sad. A little girl, Rejoice, decided to try to find the magic flute. Do you want to find out what happens?
Share Share the magazine.
Read Read aloud The Magic Flute. (Download above)
Step 4 (5 min). Comprehension Questions
Ask
  1. What did the magic flute do?
    2. Filled everyone with joy
  2. What happened when the magic flute disappeared?
    3. Everyone became sad.
  3. What did Rejoice decide to do about the missing flute?
    4. Search for it
  4. What did the wise old man give Rejoice to help her?
    5. A drum
  5. Where did the wise old man tell Rejoice to look for the magic flute?
    6. Well of Sauti – or Well of Music
  6. When Rejoice found the Well of Sauti, what kind of music were the musicians playing?
    7. Sad Music
  7. What did Rejoice decide to do when she heard the sad music?
    8. Play happy music
  8. What happened when Rejoice began playing happy music?
    9. Other musicians joined her
  9. When the magic flute heard the happy music, what did it do?
    10. Came out of the well
  10. When Rejoice took the magic flute back to the village, what happened?
    11. Everyone became happy again
  11. What can we learn about joy from the story?
    12. Let a few pupils respond
Explain Rejoice had to search for the magic flute to bring joy back to her village. Just like Rejoice had to search for the magic flute, and just like we had to search for the sweets, sometimes we have to also search for joy.

Repeat after me: You have to search for joy. Let pupils repeat.
Step 5 (5 min). Sing Egwak chang yi ki lan
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.
Step 6 (20 min). Whose Armpit Game Guide
Read Instruct pupils to turn to the second page in their magazine.

Read aloud Whose Armpit? (Magazine: The Magic Flute)
Explain We are going to play the Whose Armpit game.

Give any special rules for playing the game.
Arrange pupils into two groups. Give the egusi seed or other small object to Team B. Then select a member of Team A to guess who has the egusi seed. If the person from Team A guesses correctly, then the person with the seed goes to Team A. If they guess incorrectly, then the person who guessed goes to Team B.

Repeat, this time giving the egusi seed to Team A. Select a member of Team B to guess who has the seed. Then the appropriate person switches teams.

Continue, but every time pick a different person to guess who has the seed so everyone can participate.

Once time is up, then have pupils return to their seats.
Step 7 (5 min). Sing Together We Win
Ask
  1. Who is feeling joyful now? Show me sparkle fingers if you are feeling
    2. Joyful
Explain We are now going to sing another song to express our joy in winning together.
Guide Instruct pupils to point to the song on page 2 of the magazine.
Sing Teach Together We Win with the actions.
Step 8 (10 min). Direct Instruction on Joy
Explain When we were playing the Whose Armpit game, we had to search for the egusi seed. Just like we had to search for the egusi seed, we sometimes also have to search for joy – we have to choose to be joyful. Jinan Joy is going to teach us more about choosing to be joyful.
Guide
and Ask		 Have pupils turn to page 3. Before reading each section, have pupils point to the next picture. Then ask:
  1. What do you see in the picture?
After one or two pupils have described the picture, read the text.
Ask After reading the page, ask:
  1. What have you learned about joy?
Let a few pupils respond.
Explain Today we are learning that we have to search for joy – we have to look carefully for joy.

Repeat after me: You have to search for joy. Let pupils repeat.
Step 9 (10 min). I Spy Something that Brings Me Joy Game
Ask
  1. Who remembers how to play the I Spy game? Raise your hand if you remember.
  2. Who can explain the I Spy rules?
    3. Let one or two pupils respond
Guide Add any other rules of the I Spy game that the pupils did not mention.
Guide Play one or two rounds with you as the leader.

Play a few more rounds with pupils as the leader.
Step 10 (5 min). Conclusion
Explain We have searched for many things today. We searched for sweets. We searched for the egusi seed. We searched for things that brought us joy with the I Spy game.
Ask
  1. What did we learn today that we need to do to get joy?
    2. Search for it
  2. The I-Can statement for today is I can state the need to search for joy. Let’s state that together.
    3. You have to search for joy.
  3. What did you learn about joy today?
    4. Let a few pupils respond
  4. Who can make Jinan Joy’s signal?
    5. Have all of the pupils make the joy signal together.
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