Year 2-3 No Outsiders lesson plan
Text: Can I join your club? by John Kelly and Steph Laberis
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Learning intention: To welcome different people
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Success criteria: I know we are all different / I can name ways
we are different / I have friends who are different / I don’t leave people
out
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Starter: What is a club, what is a club for? Is anyone in the class a member
of a club? Why might someone join a club? Look at the front cover of the book
and the body language of the animals- what do you think this story is about?
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Main: Read “Can I join your club?” after the story discuss with the
children the following questions
- Why did Duck want
to join a club?
- Why did the
different animals turn him away?
- How did this make
Duck feel?
- When tortoise
asked to join Duck’s club, why didn’t Duck check if tortoise could make a
good quack noise?
- Tortoise is very
different to duck, why did Duck approve tortoise?
- Why did Duck choose
to call the club “Our Club” instead of “Duck Club”?
- What did the
animals learn at the end of the story?
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Role play: Ask for a volunteer to set up a club. Start by giving them a
sign that says their name eg “Ismail’s Club” and ask them to stand at the front
of the class and invite people to join. Hopefully children will point out
that the club shouldn’t be called “Ismail’s Club”, it should be called “Our
Club”; if no one does, stop the role play and ask the children whether you
have the name correct; what did the animals learn in the story? Cross out the
child’s name and replace it with “our”.Now ask children one at a time to
approach Ismail and ask to join the club. Ismail should use the line from
Duck in the book; “I have to ask you a question.. do you want to be in a club
with me? Application APPROVED!” Ismail repeat with lots of different children
(Ismail should change “with me” to “with us”). Once you have about ten
children if you don’t want to go through the whole class you could stop the
role okay and ask Ismail, “Who is approved for your club?” and get the class
to shout “Everyone!”
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Activity: Say to the
children what you like about the club we have invented today is that it is
full of people who are different; no one is the same but no one is left out!
Ask children to create a “Our club” poster and around the lettering draw
children and label differences – identify and celebrate differences in the
class first (say the best ting about our class is that we have differences –
different skin, eye colour, hair, genders, some wear glasses, some have
inhalers etc) Children shouldn’t name individual children from the class with
their differences on the poster, rather create a poster showing generic
children with differences.
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Plenary: When Lion says
Duck hasn’t got the right roar, why doesn’t Duck try harder and learn to roar
properly so that Lion lets Duck in the club? Why doesn’t Duck learn to make different
noises to fit in? What can we learn from Duck?
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Afl questions: Why is this story about No Outsiders? Who was
made to feel like an outsider in the story? What can we do in our school to
make sure no one feels like an outsider?
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