Friendship Character Education | Morning Meeting | SEL Social Emotional Learning
Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Friendship Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of friendship activities, printables, lesson plans, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, anchor charts, and so much more to give your students intentional practice with making friends in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop relationship skills and positive character traits.
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Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Friendship Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of friendship activities, printables, lesson plans, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, anchor charts, and so much more to give your students intentional practice with making friends in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop relationship skills and positive character traits.
You’ll Love:
- A variety of resources to explicitly model and practice friendship skills with students
- Giving your students an opportunity to build their classroom community
- Bolstering your SEL curriculum and making character education a priority
What You Get in this Friendship Character Education Unit:
A Full Month of SEL/Character Education Curriculum
Friendship Pacing Guide
- Organize your entire month of friendship.
- Plan to set aside the necessary time to complete the curriculum with your students
Friendship Parent Letter
- Get family members involved so they can reinforce the character education trait at home.
- Provide parents with tools to help them explain, model, and praise friendship skills at home.
- Includes a list of books and movies that families can enjoy together.
Friendship Read Alouds
- Choose friendship read aloud texts that teach different aspects of friendship.
- Each book makes for a great discussion!
Friendship Bulletin Boards
- Introduce friendship to your students with a beautiful bulletin board display.
- Keep this display in your classroom for the entire month that you are teaching friendship.
- Everything you need to create the display is here—including completed examples!
Friendship Anchor Chart
- Create a visual reference for your students—keep learning accessible!
- Students can refer back to this anchor chart as they respond to questions, work independently, and contribute to discussions during your SEL or Character Education lessons.
- A printable version of the anchor chart is also included.
Friendship Posters
- Provide students with a visual definition of friendship in your room with multiple poster options.
Editable Acts of Friendship Calendar
- Use this calendar to challenge your students to do something friendly each day.
- It is editable so you can change the month or the acts of friendship.
- TIP: Edit this resource to make multiple versions of the calendar – students perform different friendly acts from their classmates each day!
Doodle Reflection Page
- Give students the chance to get creative with ideas about what friendship is.
- Includes reflection questions, examples of friendship, fun friendship quotes, and doodles.
Friendship Interview and Glyph Activity
- Students interview a classmate asking both open-ended and true/false questions.
- Then, students will use their partner’s answers to decorate a glyph.
- Finally, students can use the glyphs to point out similarities and differences they notice.
Find a Friend Activity
- Students go around the classroom and find a student that agrees with the statement in each box. When they find a student who agrees, that student will sign their name in the box.
- There are three different versions of this game so students can personalize their game board.
Friend Wanted Activity
- Students work together to create a list of qualities and characteristics of a good friend.
- They use their ideas to create an advertisement and draw a picture of what friendship looks like.
A Recipe for Friendship Activity
- In this printable activity, students will brainstorm a list of things that are required for friendship.
- Then, they’ll use their list to create a recipe for friendship.
Quote of the Week
- Each week, discuss a new quote about friendship with your students.
- Quote of the week includes five different quotes about friendship.
- Activity page with three reflection questions is included for each quote.
- Each quote is available in a speech bubble that you can print and hang.
Friendship Scenarios/Social Stories
- Let students place themselves in new situations and think about ways to be a friend.
- Use these scenarios to inspire meaningful conversations in your classroom.
- Display the scenarios on your bulletin board for a class discussion or print the scenarios for students to work in groups or independently.
Friendship Reader’s Theater
- Readers theater will help with fluency, comprehension, and speaking and while studying character education.
- There are three scripts for students to read and perform:
Writing Prompts + Publishing Pages
- Includes five writing prompts for students to reflect and write about friendship.
- Bulletin board, writing paper, and clipart to turn this into a display is included.
Digital Option for Use With Google
- Option to go 100% paperless with this resource
These activities are perfect for:
- Morning Meetings
- Counselor Lessons
- Whole-Class Discussions
- Service Learning Projects
- Conflict Resolution Discussions
- Small Groups
- Independent Work
- Early Finishers
- Morning Work
- Sub Plans, and so much more!
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⭐️ Why Teachers Like You LOVE This Resource: ⭐️
“I teach Character Education and the first trait I always teach is Friendship. This resource was great to add to my lesson plans. I love all the activities and the doodle sheet! ”, – Ashley H.
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