Ruhi Book 3 Lesson: Unity

Here are some suggestions for additional ideas and activities for teaching about UNITY.
I am not going to repeat in my posts what you already have in your Ruhi Books (I do the lessons from the book and the following ideas are supplemental activities to add to your lessons or replace parts of the lessons). The key is to keep it still simple enough that another teacher could also take over if necessary. As always, I would like to hear from you. What ideas and activities have you used? Click on the comment link at the bottom of this post to share your ideas.

Song:
The Ruhi Book 3 lesson on Unity includes a beautiful song that starts with:

"We are drops of one ocean,

           We are pearls of one sea,

           Come and join us in our quest for unity,

           It's a way of life for you and me..."

Teach them the hand gestures to go with the song or if you cannot remember the gestures, have the children help you make up hand gestures that fit the words of the song.

To get the pdf of lyrics for the songs and coloring pages for each lesson, click here. This link will take you to the section within ruhiresources.org that has the lyrics and coloring pages.

You can also find CDs with the songs and sheet music by clicking here. This link will take you to the section in ruhiresources.org that has this information.

Story:
One of my all time favorite books that can be used to teach multicultural education or character education is called "The Crayon Box That Talked" by Shane DeRolf (it was based on an anti-racism campaign). Kids love it and the illustrations are adorable. It is about a box of crayons where the crayons don't get along. Eventually a girl comes and buys them and uses all the different colors to draw a picture. They then start to realize how special they each are. I love the ending part:

"We are a box of crayons,
                Each one of us unique,
                But when we get together...
                The picture is complete."

You can get more info about this book on Amazon by clicking on the book here:

Art Activity:
You can also have children make a collage with pictures they cut out that show people working together in unity.

Or you can have them draw a picture, such as flowers of a garden or do the coloring page provided in the Ruhi Book 3 lesson (reminding them to use lots of crayon colors like in the story).

Anyways, those are just some extra ideas you might want to use to supplement your lessons on unity.

Now it's your turn...I would like to hear from you :).

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