Our Family Values · KG1 Integrated Learning

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: K1.3.1.1.3 - Listen to a story on importance of exhibiting good manners in our everyday life and role-play how to use simple daily greetings with different people in the society.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Listen attentively to a story about greetings and retell one thing the main character did well.
Say at least four simple daily greetings in English or a local language and identify when to use each one.
Demonstrate appropriate non-verbal behaviours (smiling, bowing, eye contact, kneeling) when greeting different people.
Role-play greeting different people in the community, such as a teacher, an elder, a friend and a visitor.
Select a greeting card and act out the correct greeting with the right words and body language.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Values and Beliefs (Strand 3)
Sub-strand: Our Family Values (3.1)
Content standard: K1.3.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of the good manners that our families values and why they value them.
Indicator: K1.3.1.1.3 - Listen to a story on importance of exhibiting good manners in our everyday life and role-play how to use simple daily greetings with different people in the society.
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 1 (Week 13 of the year)
Term is the curriculum's own; the week within it is our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order. Follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Kindergarten Curriculum (KG1 and KG2), 2019, p. 38
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Greet and welcome learners to the community circle time. Introduce the theme for the week and invite learners to share some of the good manners that their parents insist on at home, e.g. when they are eating, when they wake up from bed, when they receive visitors, when they are in public etc.
Tell them a nice Ananse story about the importance and benefit of greetings. Write the daily greetings on strips of manila cards. Show conversational poster and have learners identify the non-verbal behaviours that that learners show when greeting at school and elderly people. Have learners role play the daily greetings, showing appropriate non-verbal behaviours when greeting
different people in the community. Using "Pick and act" have learners use the cut out manila strips to demonstrate the appropriate greeting they pick.