Friendship

• Read Frog and Toad are Friends

         Activities from Literature Notes and Reading Beyond the Basal

• Read The Rainbow Fish

• The Rainbow Fish project - Fold a 9x12 piece of paper in half.  In the top half, draw a fish. Color the fish in a very colorful way.   Cut out small pieces of shiny mylar paper and glue onto the fish.  In the bottom half of the paper, attach a writing paper in which the students will write 5 things that a good friend will do.

A Good Friend

A good friend will read with me.

A good friend will help me.

A good friend will share toys.

A good friend will take turns.

A good friend will respect me.

My good friend is Elisabeth.

• Friendship Bread

Cut canned biscuits in 4 sections, or get the small biscuits.  Dip biscuits in 1/4 cup butter.  Then dip them in 1/4 cup sugar and 3 T. cinnamon.  Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

• Friendship Frames

Cut a 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 piece of orange tagboard.  Take a digital photo of two friends.  On four popsicle sticks, color them with yellow permanent marker.  Draw a red eraser on one end and a black triangle on the other end to represent pencils.  Glue down picture in center of tagboard.  Glue popsicle sticks end to end to make a frame around the picture.  Attach a magnet strip on the back.  Also glue a copy of the following poem.

We've joined together as classmates

As the new year begins.

A year full of learning

While we become friends.

We'll share and be kind

As we work and we play.

And our friendship will grow

With each passing day.

• Friends Can Be Different activity - found on P 42-43 in Literature and Critical Thinking

• Videos in  library

Respect

Loyalty

Are you my Neighbor?

Fibber-o-loo

Horatio

 

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