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MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Social Emotional/
Interpersonal Relationships 7.3: Describe the concept of friendship and contrast qualities that strengthen or weaken a friendship, including the importance of sound character in interacting with others.
Social Emotional/Mental Health 5.3: Define character traits such as honesty, trustworthiness, self-discipline, respectfulness, and kindness and describe their contribution to identity, self-concept, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Expressive Language: Engages in communication and conversation with others.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
English Language Arts 3: Communicate personal experiences or interests.
English Language Arts 5: Listen to and use formal and informal language.
Talk Together: Friend Stories
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Invite children to share something they did with a friend at school yesterday. Prompt children with questions such as, How was that person being a good friend to you? Was he or she sharing or caring, like the song says? Encourage children to turn to a buddy and talk about how they can be good friends to someone.
Then teach children a new song about being a good friend. Sing “What Makes Me a Good Friend.” Invite children to sing along with you.
What Makes Me a Good Friend
(sung to the tune of “Farmer in the Dell”)
I am a good friend,
I am a good friend,
I help and share and play and care,
That makes me a good friend.
English Language Learners: If children have trouble putting their ideas into words, let them pantomime, and then give them the words they need to use.