Love You Forever

Robert Munsch

Description

·  This is a social studies lesson in which students will understand how people change over time.

Academic Objective

·  SSKH3 The student will correctly use words and phrases related to chronology and time to explain how things change

g. past, present, future

Brilliant Star Objective

·  Family: Students will understand family relationships.

Essential Question

·  How do people change over time?

Activating Strategy

·  Ask the students what is change? Ask them to tell you things that change over time.

·  Read the book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. Ask the students how does the boy look now, in the present. Ask the students how the boy looked in the past. Ask the students how the boy changed over time. Ask the students how the mother changed over time.

Present

  1. Tell the students that the past describes something that already happened. Tell them that the present describes what is happening now. Tell the students that people may have looked different in the past then they do in the present.
  2. Tell the students that future describes something that has not happened yet, but will happen. Tell the students that people will grow and be different in the future than they were in the past.
  3. Ask the students if they have seen photos of their mom or dad when they were in school like them. Tell them that in the past their parents looked different. Tell them that their parents will look different in the future.
  4. Ask the students if they have seen photos of themselves when they were babies. Tell them that they look different now, in the present, than they did in the past. Tell them that they will look different in the future than they do now.

Guided Practice

  1. Ask the students if their moms or dads have ever told them how they watch them sleep at night, or how they used to rock them to sleep when they were babies. Ask the students if they like for their parents to read to them or put them to sleep at night.
  2. Tell the students that you are going to read a story about a mother and her son. Tell them to notice how the boy and his mom change over time.
  3. Tell the students that as the boy grew older, his mother grew older. Tell them to draw a picture of the boy in the past, one of him in the present, and a picture of how they think that he will look in the future.

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