Standards:
K-4.1 Identify qualities of good citizenship, including honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism.
K-4.2 Demonstrate good citizenship in classroom behaviors, including taking personal responsibility, cooperating and respecting others, taking turns and sharing, and working with others to solve problems.
Summary:
A House for Hermit Crab is a story of a hermit crab that grows out of his shell and has to get a new one. The shell that he finds is great, but it is very plain. As Hermit Crab gets used to his new shell he comes across several different other animals in the sea and asks them if they will live on his shell to decorate it for him. After a while Hermit Crab has collected a sea anemone, a starfish, coral, snails, sea urchins, and a lantern fish. All of these animals decorated Hermit Crabs shell and he loved the way it looked. His shell was perfect and Hermit Crab loved it more than anything. But soon, his beloved shell was too small and Hermit Crab had to give it up. He gave his home that he loved to another smaller hermit crab.
Objective:
The student will demonstrate an understanding of what it means to be a good citizen through donating an article of clothing that is too small for him or her.
Materials:
Book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Procedure:
2. During the read the teacher will point out the different instances when the other animals help hermit crab to decorate his shell.
3. The teacher will have a discussion with the students about how it is important to help others and give to others as well when you can or you have something that you cannot use anymore and someone else could use.
4. The teacher will talk to the students how they too grow like Hermit Crab and how like Hermit Crabs shell did not fit him anymore, they grow out of their clothes as well.
5. The teacher will talk to the children about what they do with their clothes that they have frown out of or that are too small for them.
6. The teacher will point out to the students that once Hermit Crabs shell was too small for him, he gave it to another Hermit Crab that was smaller than him that could fit into the shell.
7. The teacher will ask the students if they ever donate, or give their clothes that are too small to an organization or a person.
8. The teacher will talk to the students about why it is important to give those things away that they no longer have a use for because it can be a use to someone else.
9. The teacher will talk to the students about how giving away these things can help others and make you feel good as well because you are helping someone else and being a good citizen of the community.
10. The teacher will ask the students to please bring into the class one item of clothing that no longer fits them anymore that they will donate all together to the Goodwill organization.
11. The teacher will summarize the lesson by explaining to the children that those items that they bring into the class will be donated so that someone else who is smaller than them will be able to use them and that by doing this they are being good citizens of the community.
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