Be a friend

Teacher notes

Explore different elements of friendship through creative activities

Student dance, drama and music resource developed by The Arts Unit

Kindergarten to Year 2 dance, drama and music

What will your students learn?

Your students will:

explore movements in dance
mime different everyday actions
respond with movement to stimuli, eg. rhythm, beat, music and words
sing along to a great song

Syllabus outcomes

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

MUES1.4: Listens to and responds to music.
DRAES1.1: Uses imagination and the elements of drama in imaginative play and dramatic situations.
DAES1.1: Participates in dance activities and demonstrates an awareness of body parts, control over movement and expressive qualities.
DAES1.3: Responds to and communicates about the dances they view and/or experience

PDHPE 7-10 Syllabus

PDe-3: Communicates ways to be caring, inclusive and respectful of others

Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students

These lessons are about friendship. How to recognise a friend, how to make a friend and how to interact with friends.

They can practise interpersonal skills to interact positively with others, for example:

recognise that being kind, fair and respectful to others can support class health, safety and wellbeing
practise interpersonal skills to be an effective group member, eg. express needs, wants and feelings appropriately, active listening, self-control, sharing and helping
respond to others when participating in physical activity to achieve agreed outcomes
recognise how it feels to be included in activities
identify people that can help in different situations, eg. when injured, hurt, upset, sad or worried about a family member or a friend.

This lesson could be for a Kindergarten student from a small school or for a whole class or can be extended for other stages.

This lesson can be further explored through drama, literacy (writing) and visual arts activities and can be linked to outcomes in the PDHPE syllabus K-10 for wellbeing.

Collection of student work

Google Form: create a Google Form with activities and/or questions, as well as, the ability for your students to upload of any files they create. Email this form to your students with the link to the Creative Class and all your student responses will be collated in a google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your classes Google Classroom with activities and/or questions, as well as, the ability for your students to upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or an assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: instruct your students to email you any responses and files they create.
Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used as a feedback board for you and your students to use.

For further support on how to create these resources

Offline access

Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.

Be a friend - @The Arts Unit Creative Classes.docx

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Third-party content attributions

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2006, copied under s113P, accessed 28 July 2020.
PDHPE K-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2018, copied under s113P, accessed 28 July 2020.

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