Resources:
Video: Episode One of Johnson
& Friends: Beginnings. One
day Johnson decided to find a friend and so began the best times ever.
The video of Johnson & Friends comprises
the first six episodes of the series.
See Education Catalogue
for video purchasing details and order form.
Other:
Worksheet One: Johnson
Jigsaw (pdf 171k)
Paints and/or crayons, large sheets of plain paper, different styles
of music for children to move to.
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Lesson Plan:
Key Questions
• How do you find a friend?
• Why are friends important?
• What do you do to cheer yourself up?
• What things sometimes make you feel sad?
Activities - Exploring feelings
Painting feelings
• Discuss sad or lonely colours and happy colours. Show children
a colour wheel or paints and ask them how each colour makes them feel.
On a large sheet of paper children paint or use crayons to represent feelings.
• Discuss the colours of the toys. Why is Johnson - Pink, Diesel
- Red and McDuff -Yellow and Blue? What colours are your toys? What colours
are you wearing today? What is your favourite colour?
Sad Shapes and Happy Shapes
• Play some different styles of music. Children can move and make
shapes to the music. Discuss which music makes us sad and which happy.
Children can also make shapes from clay or Playdo.
How we show our feelings
• Johnson tries to look stern and important when first meeting
McDuff. How does he make himself look stern? Discuss emotions and expressions.
• Ask children to create different expressions using their faces
and bodies. Play “feelings charades”. Children guess the emotion
that others’ show with their bodies and faces.
Activities - Who are our friends?
• Friends have different games they like to play (e.g. Johnson
and Diesel). Draw what you like to do and draw what your friend likes
to do.
• Diesel says, “No law says you can’t have more than
one friend”. Discuss the idea that we all have friends and why we
like them.
• Can a pet be a friend?
• Encourage children to bring a photograph of a friend to display
in the room or take photographs of children with their friends.
• Although McDuff seems very unusual to Johnson they become friends.
Have you had a friend who is very different from you? e.g. looks, interests,
their family, etc…
• Diesel wants to make friends with Johnson. “A friend would
get me unstuck that’s what a friend would do” What do friends
do for each other?
• Print out the Johnson
Jigsaw worksheet (pdf 171k) and draw lines
to divide it into a jigsaw.
Difficulty of the jigsaw can vary with the age of the children. Photocopy
enough activity sheets for the group of children. Cut the jigsaws into
pieces and give each child or small group of children a set. Distribute
colouring pens or crayons, glue and a sheet of stiff paper for children
to stick their completed Johnson on.
Extension Activities
View Video: Real
Friends, Lift Off 1, ACTF.
This episode is also in the Curriculum Package Lift
Off to Wondering and Thinking. “Excerpts
from Munch Kids: Real Friends”.
See Education Catalogue for video purchasing details and order form.
Activities to accompany this episode of Lift Off
are available online in the Lesson Idea Friends
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