# Lesson 195: My global friends booklet

🟡 SOCIAL STUDIES (40 Lessons) • 🟠 E. Projects

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## Objective

I can make a simple "My global friends" booklet that shows children in different places around the world and talk kindly about one way they are the same as me and one way they are different.

## Materials

- Two sheets of plain paper (to fold into a small booklet)
- Crayons or colored pencils
- Notebook page for planning and sentence ideas
- Optional: world map or globe to point to different places

## Mini-lesson — Children around the world

Children live in many countries around the world. We can call them our global friends.

Different and the same

- Children may wear different clothes.
- They may eat different foods or speak different languages.
- They also like many of the same things, such as playing, learning, and being with family and friends.

Talking kindly about others

- We use kind words when we talk about people from other places.
- We can say, "This is different from me, and that is okay."
- We remember that every child is important and deserves respect.

My global friends booklet

- A booklet is a small book with a few pages.
- Your booklet will show children in different places.
- On each page, you can show one way that child is the same as you and one way they are different.

An adult can help choose which places to show. We do not share private information about real people; we make safe, simple pictures and kind sentences.

Picture strip: Three global friends

## Guided Practice — Plan your global friends pages

You will plan three pages for your booklet. Each page will show one global friend.

1. On a notebook page, draw three boxes down the page. Number them 1, 2, and 3.
2. In box 1, draw a child in another part of your country or a nearby country. In box 2 and 3, draw children in other places in the world. An adult can help you choose.
3. Under each box, make a line that says "Same:" and a line that says "Different:".
4. Tell an adult one way that child is the same as you (for example, "likes football") and one way they are different (for example, "wears different clothes"). The adult can help write or trace these words.
5. At the top of your page, write or trace the title: "My global friends plan".
6. Read your "Same" and "Different" lines aloud to an adult.

Tracing Pad
Lines
Trace
Pen

## Practice — Make your global friends booklet

Use your plan to make a small booklet that celebrates global friends in a kind way.

1. Fold one sheet of paper in half to make a small booklet. This will be your "My global friends" book.
2. On the front cover, write or trace the title: "My global friends". Draw a simple picture of children around a globe or standing together.
3. Inside the booklet, use one page for each global friend from your plan (at least three pages). Draw the child and their place.
4. On each page, write or trace a short sentence for "Same:" and a short sentence for "Different:". An adult can help with the words.
5. Color your pictures neatly. Make sure faces and bodies look kind and respectful, never silly or unkind.
6. Share your booklet with an adult. Read each page aloud, saying both the "Same" and "Different" sentences.

## Quick Check — My global friends

Answer each question about children around the world, being different and the same, and talking kindly. These questions check simple ideas only.

1) What is a global friend?

A toy that you keep in a box. A child who lives in another place somewhere in the world. Only someone who lives next door.
Global friends are children in other places around the world.

2) Which sentence is true?

Children live in many different countries around the world. All children live in one tiny town. Only adults can live in other countries.
Children live in many different places and countries.

3) Which example shows children being different?

They all breathe air. They all like to play. They wear different clothes and eat different foods.
Clothes and foods can be different around the world.

4) Which example shows children being the same?

One child is made of plastic. Children in many places like to play and learn. Only one child in the world likes stories.
Many children enjoy playing and learning, even in different places.

5) What is the "Same:" line for?

To tell one way you and your global friend are alike. To write a random word. To colour outside the page.
The "Same" line tells a way you are alike.

6) What is the "Different:" line for?

To say someone is bad. To write only numbers. To tell one way your global friend is not the same as you.
The "Different" line tells a difference in a kind way.

7) Which words are kind when talking about global friends?

"You look strange, that is bad." "You do some things differently, and that is okay." "My way is the only good way."
Kind words respect other people's differences.

8) Which sentence fits this lesson best?

"Children around the world are important and deserve respect." "Only children in my street matter." "I never want to learn about other places."
We show respect and care for children everywhere.

9) What helps your global friends booklet be clear?

Scribbling over all the words. Drawing pictures with no labels or meaning. Neat pictures and "Same" and "Different" sentences on each page.
Neat pictures and clear sentences make your booklet easy to understand.

10) What is one goal for this lesson?

To say mean things about people who are different. To show children around the world and talk kindly about how we are different and the same. To learn every language in one day.
The goal is to show global friends and speak kindly about them.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can say in simple words that children live in many places around the world. Student can name at least one way children can be different (clothes, foods, language, homes). Student can name at least one way children can be the same (playing, learning, family). Student created a booklet page (or pages) with both "Same" and "Different" ideas. Student talks about global friends in a kind and respectful way.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can talk kindly about children around the world. 🙂 I know some ideas about global friends, but I want more practice. 😅 Global friends still feel a bit tricky to me.

#### Next time I will practise…

Finding one way I am the same as a global friend Finding one way I am different from a global friend Using kind words when I talk about other places
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