The Crescent: Stories to Introduce the Concept of Moral Values for Children Aged 5 to 7

by Elizabeth Yeowart, Margaret Mather

Overview

The 24 stories in this resource provide a years work based around the people who live in The Crescent. The characters provide a continuity and the themes include:

} giving and taking

} bullying and friendship

} honesty and lies

} birth and new arrivals

} environmental issues.

With every story there is a warm up exercise, Circle Time discussion, supplementary ideas, National Curriculum links and photocopiable worksheets.

A comprehensive resource using a mini soap opera storyline, which will help children identify and emphathise with the characters so that they can experience and experiment to gain understanding of their own world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904315414
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/27/2004
Series:	Lucky Duck Books
Edition description:	Book and CD
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE
PART TWO: THEMES
PART THREE: HOW TO USE THE MATERIALS
PART FOUR: THE LESSONS
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Crescent
Lesson 2: New Beginnings
Lesson 3: Assumption and Prejudice
Lesson 4: Territory and Trespass
Lesson 5: Vandalism
Lesson 6: The Coutryside
Lesson 7: Giving and Taking
Lesson 8: The Unknown
Lesson 9: Play and Creativity
Lesson 10: Darkness and Light
Lesson 11: Loss, Rejection and Identification
Lesson 12: Thoughts and Promises
Lesson 13: Disaster and Recovery
Lesson 14: Laughter and Derision
Lesson 15: Weddings and Formalities
Lesson 16: Birth and New Arrivals
Lesson 17: Bullying and Friendship
Lesson 18: Strangers and Danger
Lesson 19: Excitement
Lesson 20: Honesty and Lies
Lesson 21: Stealing
Lesson 22: Guilt
Lesson 23: Restoration and Discovery
Lesson 24: Endings