The+Lotus+Seed+Reinforcing+Activity

**The Lotus Seed Reinforcing Activity:**
After reading The Lotus Seed to the class, use the flower graphic organizer to identify reasons the lotus seed was important to the grandmother and why. The teacher will break students into groups of two or three and explain how to use the flower graphic organizer -- in the center students will write "lotus seed" and on each petal they will give one reason the grandmother cherished the lotus seed. After this, the students will have time to discuss the story and write the reasons and their explanations for why the lotus seed was important to the grandmother on their graphic organizers. The class will come back together after the students have completed the activity and discuss what they recorded on their flowers.

Optional Homework Activity: The teacher passes out another graphic organizer and instructs the students to do the same activity with an artifact that is important to them, their culture and their family. The class takes the last few minute of class to brainstorm possible artifacts the students could write about. As this is to be done at home students can ask their parents/guardians for help in brainstorming items important to their family. This gives students the opportunity to relate the artifact from the story to something that is meaningful in their own lives.



Additional Standards Geography