Showcase your community’s leaders by creating colorful banners honoring their commitment and service.

• 1.

  With your classmates, think about caring people who are leaders in your community. What jobs or volunteer work do they do? What are some of their most admirable traits? Make a list with Crayola Twistables® Colored Pencils. Choose a trait and identify someone in your community to honor that lives up to that characteristic. Try to choose a variety of people with different roles and backgrounds.

• 2.

  Using Crayola Scissors, cut out two large, identical banners from construction paper. On one banner, write the leadership trait in large letters with the colored pencils and Crayola Twistables® Crayons. Check in a dictionary and write a short, crisp definition of the trait. Add borders and decorate the banner.

• 3.

  On the second banner, show your leader demonstrating the trait you chose. Underneath the illustration, write a sentence describing the person, job, and community contributions. Add design elements so your banner looks colorful and appealing.

• 4.

  Use hook and loop fastener tape to attach all of the class banner sets together. Display them in your classroom, school hallway, or other public place.

Standards

• LA: Read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band independently and proficiently.
• LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• LA: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• MATH: Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit.
• SS: Describe ways in which language, stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture.
• SS: Give examples of and explain group and institutional influences such as religious beliefs, laws, and peer pressure, on people, events, and elements of culture.
• SS: Give examples of the role of institutions in furthering both continuity and change.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.

Adaptations

• Possible classroom resource includes: Time For Kids: John F. Kennedy: The Making of a Leader by The Editor for TIME for Kids
• Encourage students to organize and carry out a Leadership Day. Invite honorees to visit the school and speak about their work and recognize their contributions to the community.
• Encourage students to investigate careers that they are interested in, the education needed to practice a career of choice, and identify the leadership qualities needed to be most successful. Organize research into an electronic format for presentation or prepare to orally deliver learning to classmates. If done orally, students may consider using recycled materials to create a costume for the performance.