THAT’S NOT FAIR (ORANGE PROMISE)

That’s Not Fair

Orange Promise: Offer Fair and Kind Treatment to All

Adapted by Cynthia Fennelly
Materials

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  Orange Underlay
  
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  Becky, brother, mother, father
  
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  house, Chart, Cake on plate & pieces of cake with plates to put them on, Mail
  

Presentation
Words for you to say are in italics; actions are in plain type.
Lay the orange underlay out on the floor and smooth it out.
Place Becky figure in the center of the underlay.
"Nothing to do," said Becky."Nothing to do to do to do. Nothing to play with. No one to play with. Nowhere to go. And that’s not fair."
Bring out Becky’s brother, Bert, and place him beside Becky.
"You have to play with me, Bert," Becky said to her older brother Bert. "I don’t have anything else to do.
"I’m too busy," Bert. "As busy as a bee. B-U-S-Y busy."
"That’s not fair!" Becky said. "I can’t even spell."
Move Becky and Bert to the bottom of the underlay and bring out Becky’s house. Place house in the center of the underlay.
"Hey Mom. Hey Mom! Hey Mom Mom Mom?" Becky called. "I don’t have anything to do."
Place Becky’s Mom in the house .
"Come down and help dust the dining room or peel potatoes," Becky’s mother said.
"That’s not fair," Becky whispered. "Cleaning and cooking is sissy girl’s work."
"Better not let Mom or Dad hear you say a D_U_M_B dumb thing like that," Bert said.
"That’s not fair." Becky said. "you were listening."
"But you didn’t hear me," said Bert. "I was as quiet as a M-O-U-S-E mouse."
Bring out Becky’s Dad and place him beside Becky’s Mom.

"Want to take me somewhere anywhere, Dad?" asked Becky.
"I’m busy now, Becky." Becky’s father said. "How about cleaning your room?"
"That’s not fair." Becky said. "Everybody is busy but me. Everybody has things to do except me. I don’t have anything to do. And now I have to clean my room. It’s not fair," Becky said.
"You always say things aren’t fair," Bert said.
"Not fair. Not fair.”
“You say “that’s not fair?” when you can’t do what you want to do. You say “that’s not fair?” when you are sad and when you are mad. M-A-D. Mad as a wet hen."
Bring out chart and place it over house.
"Well elephants have four knees and other animals only have two knees. ONLY elephants have four legs that bend forward in the middle the way our two legs bend. Do you see S-E-E see that? Other four-legged animals can only bend their front legs that way - they have only two knees. T-W-O two. Do two-kneed animals complain? Do they say “That’s not fair?” N-O no. They don’t say that because fair doesn’t have anything to do with it. That’s just the way things are! And fair doesn’t have anything to do with people being busy or rooms being cleaned," said Bert. "Not at all. No way. What’s not fair
Bring out chocolate cake.
“If there’s a chocolate cake and we’re both allowed to have a piece and I cut the pieces and give you a very little piece …”
Place small piece beside Becky.
“… and give me a big B-I-G big piece …”
Place big piece beside Bert.
“ … that’s not fair! Think about that, Rebecca. T-H-I-N-K think about that."
"Don’t call me Rebecca," Becky said.
Becky went next door. "Can Ben come out and play? Becky asked Ben’s Dad.
"Sorry Becky," Ben’s father answered, "Ben’s visiting his grandmother."
"That’s not fa -- ... that’s not ... OH! I see. A grandmother isn’t like chocolate cake, is she?"
"Certainly not," said Ben’s father.
Becky went home. Just as she was about to go upstairs, the mail came through the mailslot.
Bring out mail and lay it down as it’s mentioned.
"A letter for Mom and one for your Dad and Bert’s wildlife magazine. Nope, no mail for me." said Becky to herself.
"Is no mail for me an elephant’s knees or chocolate cake?" Becky wondered.
"Here’s your magazine, Bert," said Becky. "Is it fair I didn’t get any mail and everyone else did?"
"Sure," said Bert. "It’s as fair as elephant’s knees."
"Come on, Bert," said Becky’s father. "I’m going down town and I’m taking you ..."
"I’ll be as fast as a fox," said Bert.
"That’s not fair," said Becky.
"A trip downtown isn’t elephant’s knees. It is chocolate cake. I haven’t been downtown for weeks and weeks and weeks and you went two days ago. No fair."
I’m older than you. O-L-D-E-R older," said Bert. "And wise as an owl."
"That’s not fair either," said Becky.
"Let’s go, Bert. Now," said Bert and Becky’s father. "I’ve got just enough time to get you to the barber for your back-to-school haircut."
"Rats!" said Bert. "That’s not fair."
"It is fair!" said Becky.
Bring Becky out of the house and place her in center of underlay in front of house.
"As fair as fair as an elephant’s knees. Fair. Perfectly fair."
Ask some of these Wondering Questions (as time and interest allow):
I wonder if you have ever seen or heard any of this before?
I wonder which part of this story is the most important?
I wonder which part you like the best?
I wonder where you might be in this story?
I wonder what how it feels to have an older brother or sister?
I wonder if they always treat you fairly?
I wonder how it feels when you are treated unfairly?
I wonder how it feels to treat someone else unfairly?
I wonder if you treat people fairly?
I wonder if having to clean your room is elephant’s knees or chocolate cake?
I wonder if this lesson reminds you of any of our other Unitarian Universalist Promises?
I wonder where the Spirit of Love and Mystery might be in this story?

Choices
Say something like:
In this classroom you are able to choose what you would like to do with your time here after the story and before class is over.
Today’s choices are:

• 
  Retelling the story to yourself
  

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  Elephants or Chocolate Cake? Discernment
  

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  Fair Is, Fair Isn’t posters
  

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  Relay Race: Fair vs. Equal
  

Or other activities you have chosen as the teacher. It is up to you whether to give totally free choice to each child individually (this will work best when you have enough adults to assist any child who needs help with a chosen activity without too much waiting) or whether to help the class as a whole decide on one or two activities to do together.

Whichever you decide, be sure to let the children know clearly what choices they have (and do not have).
Activity Directions
Retelling the story independently:
Coach children to take turns, and to treat the materials with respect so that they will be available for other children and teachers to use in the future. For older/reading children, provide a copy of the script (above). For younger/non-reading children, provide a photo of the finished storyboard.
Elephants or Chocolate Cake? Discernment
Before you tell the That’s Not Fair story, have each child brainstorm and write down (or write down for them) two or three times they have felt that something was really not fair. For example, “It wasn’t fair when my mom made me xyz yesterday.”
After telling the story, make a T-chart on butcher paper with one side labeled “Chocolate Cake” and the other side labeled “Elephants”. Like this:
Chocolate Cake | Elephants

| | | | | |

Read aloud each child’s brainstormed scenarios, and as a group decide whether each scenario belongs on the Chocolate Cake side or the Elephant side.
Fair Is, Fair Isn’t Posters
Give each child a printout (see the end of this session for a ‘word’ version and a ‘picture’ version) and markers, crayons, or colored pencils. Allow each child to decorate his or her page to take home.
Relay Race: Fair vs. Equal
There are lots of ways to do a relay race, but basically you need a start line, a finish line, and one object for each team to hand off at the start line to each member of the team. Set these things up.
Gather the kids around and have them line up by height. Then divide the group exactly in half. If there are an uneven number of kids, add an adult to the half with the taller kids in it. You will end up with a team that is shorter and younger, and a team that is taller and older, but they will be equal in terms of number of people.

Run a relay race: each team lines up at the start line. The first runner takes the object to the finish line, turns around, comes back to the start line, hands off the object, and then the second person on the team runs. Whichever team gets everyone on the team run through first, wins.

Now, ask in what ways that race felt fair to the kids, and in what ways it felt unfair.
Ask if the kids have an idea of how to make it more fair and/or more equal (in this case, fair and equal ARE synonyms!)
They will probably come up with some good ideas. One way is to line up again by height and then take pairs of people from each end of the line to make up the teams: person 1 and 8 on team A; person 2 and 7 on team B, etc.
Run the relay race again and explore how it feels different
!

THE ROOSTER WHO LEARNED TO CROW

Yellow Promise Story: Yearn to accept and learn about ourselves, others, and the Mystery

By Janeen K. Grohsmeyer

Adapted by Cyn Fennelly

Materials

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  Yellow underlay
  
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  Felt barn
  
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  Chicken coop
  
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  Manure pile
  
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  Fence
  
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  Pond and grass
  
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  Animals : cows, pig, dog, donkey, chicken, rooster, cat, duck, baby chick
  

Presentation
Words for you to say are in italics; actions are in plain type.
Spread out the underlay on the carpet, smoothing it gently Place chicken coop, fence, barn, pond and manure pile on underlay as you say:
There once was a farm in a valley that was practically perfect in every way, except that it had no rooster to crow at the crack of dawn, and so everyone was always late getting out of bed. The dog never woke up in time to fetch the newspaper for the farmer.
Bring out dog.
The farmer never woke up in time to milk the cows before the sun rose.
Bring out the cows.
The cows never woke up in time to eat the grass when it was still wet with the morning dew, which is when it is most tasty.
Bring out the grass.
Everyone was always late on that farm, and so everyone was always a bit cranky in the morning, and sometimes that crankiness lasted all day.
Until one day …
Bring out the chicken.
A chicken arrived at the farm. Everyone was excited because she had a little chick with her.
Bring out little chick - little yellow fluff ball.
"Uh, pardon me, Mrs. Chicken," snuffled the pig,
Bring out the pig.
who was always exceedingly polite. "But would your chick there happen to be, that is, might it be a he?"

"Why yes," answered Mrs. Chicken, This is my son."
Bring fluff ball forward and bring out all the other animals except the rooster.
"A rooster chicken!" brayed the donkey, and all the other animals squealed, or mowed, or quacked, or oinked too.
Invite children to make the noises.
"We won’t be late anymore! We have a rooster on the farm!"
But they didn’t. Not yet. They had to wait for the chick to grow up. And grow he did, until - finally - young Mr. Rooster Chicken began to grow long swooping feathers on his tail.
Replace fluff ball with rooster.
"A tail. A tail!" mooed a cow. "Soon you’ll be old enough to crow!"
"You look very handsome today, young Mr. Rooster," snorted the pig, who was always exceedingly polite. "A very fine looking fowl, if I may say so."
"Thank you," said young Mr. Rooster, with a bob of his head and a quiver of his cockscomb, but then he walked away, his long tail feathers drooping and his cockscomb down too.
"What’s wrong?" asked his friend, the sleek young dog who looked forward to fetching the paper.
"Oh, nothing."
"Something must be wrong." said his friend the duck who swam in the pond.
Bring forward the duck and the pig.
The pig came over to listen too.
"Well," said the young rooster, scratching in the dirt with his strong toes, "everybody’s waiting for me to grow up and crow. I’m doing the growing-up part all right, but ... "
"But what?" asked the dog.
"But I don’t know how to crow! I’ve never even heard a rooster. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do!"
"We shall help you," announced the pig, who was always exceedingly helpful as well as polite.
"We will?" asked the dog, with every single hair on his back raised. "How?"
"Yes, how?" quacked the duck.
"We shall teach him," said the pig. "You have heard a rooster crow before, have you not, Mrs. Duck?"
"Yes, I have!" said the duck. "I can show you!" She flew to the top of the chicken coop nearby. Then she folded her wings back, tilted her beak up, and crowed, "Quack-a -whack-a -whack- a-whack."
The dog lifted up his muzzle and howled.
"Hmmm," said the pig. "Thank you Mrs. Duck, though that’s not perhaps quite ... "
"I hope not!" said the rooster, looking very much alarmed.
"I shall demonstrate," said the pig. "First one must climb, though you will no doubt fly, to a high." The pig climbed to the top of the manure pile.
Move pig to the top of the pile.
"Then, tilt your head back - Mrs. Duck did this part quite well - clear your throat and ... crow. The pig tilted back his head and cleared his throat. "Oink a-snuffle, oink a-snort!"
Bring pig back down.
The dog closed his eyes and shook his head. "Humph!" said the duck, not at all impressed.
"Yes, well ... " The pig climbed down from the manure pile. "That is not quite, uh, that is ... it does sound a bit ... you understand ... with a real rooster... "
"Oh, dear," said the rooster, looking even more alarmed.
"Maybe another chicken," suggested the duck, and they went to fetch Mrs. Hen. But all she could manage was "Cluck a-cluck a-cluck a-cluck. The dog gave them "Woof a-woof a-woof a-woof!" The donkey offered "HEE haw a-haw a-haw a-haw!"
The rooster sadly shook his head. "I’ll never learn to crow. I won’t be any good at waking anyone up. Nobody will like me anymore."
"Sure we will," said the dog. "I like you right now, and you’ve never crowed a day in your life!" All the other animals agreed, with moos and brays and stomping of feet.
Invite the children to make animal noises again.
"I wonder, said the pig, "have you yourself ever tried to crow?"
"Me?" said the rooster. "But ... "
"You’re more a rooster than any one of us," said the duck.
"And we’ll like you no matter what you sound like," said the pig.
"Even if you don’t make any sound at all!" said the dog.
And so the rooster decided to try. He flew up on top of the fence.
Move rooster to fence.
He folded his wings back. He tilted his head back. And he tried to make the same noises all his friends had tried to make before. Softly at first, "Cock a-doodle-doo." and then again, a little louder, "Cock a-doodle-doo!" and then very loud indeed, "Cock a-doodle-doo!!!!"

After that, no one had any doubt that young Mr. Rooster knew how to crow, not even young Mr. Rooster himself!
There is a farm in a valley that is practically perfect in every way. It even has a fine young rooster who crows at the break of dawn, and so everyone always gets out of bed exactly on time. The dog always wakes up in time to fetch the newspaper for the farmer. The farmer always wakes up in time to milk the cows before the sun rises. The cows always wake up in time to eat the grass while it is still wet with morning dew, which is when it is most tasty. Everyone is always wide awake on the farm, and never cranky, because they have a rooster whose friends helped him learn how to crow, just like this:
Invite children to join in.
"Cock a-doodle-doo!"
Ask some of these Wondering Questions (as time and interest allow):
I wonder if you have ever seen or heard any of this before?
I wonder which part of this story is the most important?
I wonder which part you like the best?
I wonder where you might be in this story?
I wonder how a rooster knows how to be a rooster?
I wonder how a pig knows how to be a pig?
I wonder how you know how to be yourself?
I wonder if you have learned anything new this year?
I wonder if learning new things is hard for everyone?
I wonder if you have ever been afraid to try something new?
I wonder if Mrs. Chicken was proud of her son, young Mr. Rooster?
I wonder if this story reminds you of any of our other Unitarian Universalist Promises?
I wonder where the Spirit of Love and Mystery is in this story?

Choices
Say something like:
In this classroom you are able to choose what you would like to do with your time here after the story and before class is over.
Today’s choices are:

• 
  Retelling the story to yourself
  

• 
  Sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  

• 
  What I Like About You Game
  

• 
  Acting Out the Story Together
  

Or other activities you have chosen as the teacher. It is up to you whether to give totally free choice to each child individually (this will work best when you have enough adults to assist any child who needs help with a chosen activity without too much waiting) or whether to help the class as a whole decide on one or two activities to do together.

Whichever you decide, be sure to let the children know clearly what choices they have (and do not have).
Activity Directions
Retelling the story independently:
Coach children to take turns, and to treat the materials with respect so that they will be available for other children and teachers to use in the future. For older/reading children, provide a copy of the script (above). For younger/non-reading children, provide a photo of the finished storyboard.
Sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm:
You probably know this song, but just in case you need reminding, here are the words:
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O,
And on that farm he had a [animal name], E-I-E-I-O,
With a [animal noise twice] here and a [animal noise twice] there
Here a [animal noise], there a [animal noise], everywhere a [animal noise twice]
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
For example, a verse using a cow as an animal and “moo” as the cow's sound:

Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.

And on that farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O.
With a moo moo here and a moo moo there
Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
If you need to hear the tune, it’s easy to find through any on-line search engine. And just in case you want to get creative with which animals Old MacDonald is farming, check out this list of animal sounds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_sounds
What I Like About You Game:
Give each child a piece of paper and a magic marker. Have children help each other tape the pieces of paper onto each other’s backs.
Invite everyone to move around the room and write something they like about each person on his or her back. It is important to set this up so that it is clear that they must write on EVERYONE’S back, not just the backs of people they know well and like.
If some children are not fluent readers/writers, you can pair up older and younger children to work together, or have an adult help non-reading/writing children by writing for them.
Once everyone is done, help everyone read what was written on their backs.
Acting Out the Story Together:
Assign roles to each child and use the script for the story to narrate as the children act out the plot. This doesn’t have to ‘look’ good or be perfect – it’s just for fun!

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