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Do You Want to Be My Friend?

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners participate in a variety of emergent and early-literacy activities based on a "friendship" theme. Learners listen to the book Do You Want to Be My Friend by Eric Carle, then echo read, choral read, and independently read...
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Helping My Friends Stay on Track

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Good friends help each other stay on track to meet their personal goals. HIgh schoolers discuss how they can be or use co-pilots (friends) to reach their career and education goals. Activities and several worksheets are included.
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Helping Hand

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover ways to help others. They share ways they help their family and friends. Afterward, students trace hand prints on paper and then draw pictures and words to explain how the hands can be used to help other people. They...
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Your Friends in School: Part 2

For Teachers K - 3rd
Making friends is an important social skill. Talk about the importance of friendship, what makes a friend, and friends found in the classroom. This presentation includes an activity where kids pair-up to make a picture for the class...
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Our Friendship Chain Links Us Together

For Teachers K
Students explore what makes a good friend. They listen to songs, list qualities of a good friend, draw a picture of their friends on a paper link, and create a class paper chain.
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Life's Greatest Pleasures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the meaning of what makes life pleasurable.  In this social awareness lesson, students read an article that states things that people might enjoy doing for pleasure, then complete numerous activities to reinforce what...
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Developing Friendships

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to the book Friends and discuss how to make friends and the characteristics of good friends. In this friends lesson, students listen to the story and practice role playing on how to make friendships.
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A Quilt of Many Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn the "Quilt Song." They brainstorm items they could draw that would remind them of the person in the song. Students work in groups to complete a "Person Outline" page (included with the activity). They draw one part of...
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Making 'Friends'

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read "Fans Gear Up to Say Goodbye to 'Friends'" from The New York Times and discuss the elements of the sitcom 'Friends' that made it such a success. After brainstorming reasons for 'Friends' popularity, students work in groups...
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Bar Codes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify five good qualities of a friend, four helping activities and carry out an activity to help a friend.
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Family And Friends

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore and practice how to answer question forms and to use key vocabulary about family and friends. They assess how to find out more about each other's friends and families by completing a worksheet full of questions to ask...
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Flavorful Friends

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read a book about friends, talk about good friends, and make "flavorful friends" out of food. In this friends lesson plan, students make their "friends" out of cookies, raisins, m&m's, and more.
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New Friends Bingo

For Students 1st - 4th
In this friends worksheet, students find someone who does the thing asked of in each box and writes their name down. Students complete this for 24 boxes.
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Facebook Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this friends activity, students read a text, fill out a profile, fill in the blanks to short sentences, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Friends are Quiet Angels

For Students 4th - 6th
In this friends worksheet, learners fill in the blanks, complete a word search, complete past forms of verbs, and more having to do with friends. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Friends

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this friends worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences about friends. Students complete 7 multiple choice questions.
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Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete vocabulary activities about friends. In this vocabulary lesson, students introduce themselves in a ball game format and discuss the topic of friends. Students complete a worksheet with related vocabulary and read a...
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Wanted:Friend

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this friendship worksheet, students list the qualities they want in a friend. Students fill up a 1 page sheet about the qualities they find in good friendship.
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Circle of Friends

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate the meaning of friendship and how to make friends. In this friendship lesson, students make Venn Diagrams showing the similarities and differences of characters in two stories. They discuss their own circle of friends.
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #7

For Teachers K
Pupils determine characteristics that make each of them special. In this personal characteristics lesson, students complete activities that help them determine that each person has special characteristics and that everyone experiences...
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Me and My World

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this me and my world instructional activity, students draw a picture and write sentences about themselves, their family, their friends, and activities they like to do. Students write 1 or 2 sentences for each.
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Trustworthiness

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders evaluate trustworthiness in others. In this character education lesson, 6th graders brainstorm items that are trustworthy, and then list attributes of trustworthy friends. Then students read a story to evaluate the...
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Join the Self Esteem Team!

For Students 3rd
For this character worksheet, 3rd graders complete two dot to dot puzzles. They help someone feel good about themselves and write about it in the star bursts on the page.
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Phil's First Day 1

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this Phil's first day of school worksheet, students describe what a friend is by listing adjectives, adverbs or phrases that begin with each of the letters in friends.