Friendship
Curriculum Area Link:
Personal Development and Mutual Understanding
Knowing how to be a good friend.
1. What is a friend?
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Literacy: Talking
Discuss the idea of friendship. What is a friend? Who are our friends? You could create a shared list together.
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Literacy: Writing
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Use the What is a Friend Writing Frame to write sentences on what is a friend? (ie. a friend is someone to play with, a friend is someone you sit with)
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Use the My Friend Writing Frame to allow children to extend this to recognise their own friends. (This can be a good way to find out who in your class might be struggling with friendships).
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The Arts: Art
Draw a picture of our friends.
You can use the My Friend Art Frame for this or any paper/ arts methods that will work for your class.
Literacy: Talking
Remind the children of what Wilbur did to be a good friend.
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He noticed Heathcliffe wasn’t happy.
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He suggested ways to help Heathcliffe feel better.
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He stayed with Heathcliffe until he was better. ​
Talk to the children about what he didn’t do:​
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He didn’t tell Heathcliffe to ‘cheer up’.
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He didn’t tell Heathcliffe it was silly to feel that way.
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He didn’t make Heathcliffe do anything he didn’t want to do.
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He didn’t leave Heathcliffe to sort it out himself.​​​​​​​
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Literacy: Reading/ Writing
Use the How Was Wilbur a Good Friend Worksheet. (differentiated two ways)
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Ask the children to match the sentence to the pictures or write their own sentences about each picture.
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Could make a good group task.
3. How can we be good friends?​​​​
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Literacy: Talking
Discuss the idea of what makes a good friend?
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What does a good friend do?
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How does a good friend make us feel?
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​What can we do to be good friends?
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Literacy: Writing
Make a class list of things a good friend does. (ie. shares, listens, plays with us)
Use the Good Friends Writing Frame (differentiated 3 ways) to make sentences or draw pictures about being a good friend.
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The Arts: Drama
Use Emotion Word Cards to explore what an emotion feels like in the body. You can pick a card and ask the children to show you that emotion. Ask them to move or walk with that emotion. Ask them to say hello to each other with that emotion. Ask them to do a frozen picture of that emotion. Make sure you include or end with the feeling of being ‘Tizzy’.
Put the children into pairs and ask them to act out little scenes in which one is feeling tizzy – the other suggests a way for them to feel better.
You can then repeat/ extend with other feelings taken from the Emotion Word Cards.
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