The Friendship Project Second Grade Tricia Garton Standard: 21.K–2.HL.2 Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand and use interactive literacy and social skills to enhance personal, family, and community health. Demonstrate social and communication skills to enhance health and increase safety. • Demonstrate verbal and nonverbal ways to express wants, needs, and feelings appropriately. • Choose effective conflict management strategies. Objective: Second grade students will investigate strategies for enhancing social and communication skills concerning friendship. Students will read the book How To Be A Friend as a small group and then by using cooperation and tactics from the book, synthesize their learning by presenting their group’s information in a creative format. Materials: How To Be A Friend by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown (nine copies), art supplies for creative project, postQit notes Overview: This book will be incorporated into each day’s mini lesson for two weeks. Each day, for 15 minutes, the teacher will read a section of the book, encourage brief discussion and then have students act out or read the scenarios within each section. Sections include: o Me, Myself & I/Who Can Be Your Friend o Ways to Be a Friend o Joining in the Fun o Feeling Shy o Ways NOT to Be a Friend o Bosses and Bullies o Making Up with a Friend o Talking Out an Argument o Being Friendly After each section has been read aloud and discussed, students will work in groups to review their assigned section and then present the information to their classmates in a jigsaw format.
Dear Parents, Friendship is a really important component to everyday life for your second grader! Learning how to navigate friendship, and everything that comes with it can be daunting. Arguments, bossing and bullying are some of the tougher parts of friendship and it’s important that your child know the skills for handling these situations.
We are going to investigate friendship through the book How To Be A Good Friend by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown. Through exploring this book, your child will find out about making friends, how to keep them and the not so easy parts of friendship.
This book will give your child the opportunity to reflect on their own friendships and practice some new techniques that will be valuable in building their interpersonal skills!
You can use the flyer on the following page as a home guide to reinforce your child’s friendship-building skills. Ask them what they are learning everyday! You’ll be amazed at what a great friend your child knows how to be!
Thank you for being involved with
your child’s education!
Mrs. Garton
Students will find out:
! Who can be a friend
! How to show someone you would like to be friends
! How to handle bosses and bullies
! The best ways to be a friend and the ways NOT to be a friend
! Ways to settle an
argument with a friend
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Talking Out an Argument
1. Stop arguing
2. Calm down. Take deep breaths, count backwards, relax your muscles, or leave the group for a minute.
3. Agree to talk it out
Here are some steps to help you talk out an argument:
4. Everyone gets a turn to tell, not yell, their story and be listened to without interruption.
5. Think up lots of ideas for solving the problem
6. Try to choose the best solution, the one that everyone agrees on and thinks will work.
7. Decide how to go about carrying out the plan.
8. Do it!
! Remember, arguments are allowed,
but meanness is not!
! In order to please everyone at least a little, you may not get exactly what you want.
