Healthy Friendships
Learning Targets:
You will learn how to...
be a good friend
express needs and wants appropriately
describe how you will be a good friend to your classmates
Student Success Criteria:
I can describe what traits make a good friend.
I can identify my needs and wants to being a good friend.
I can share with my friends what qualities I have as a good friend.
Priority Standards
1.10.M - Describe how to work and play cooperatively.
6.1.M - Describe how to make a commitment to be a good friend.
Supporting Standards
1.8.M - List healthy ways to express affection, love, friendship, and concern.
1.11.M - Identify the positive ways that peers and family members show support, care, and appreciation for one another.
Unit Vocabulary
Cooperate
Needs
Wants
Commitment
Friend
Respect
Loyalty
Kind
Fun
Sharing
Teamwork
Encouraging
Generous
Trust
Honesty
Truth
Support
Friendship
Together
Listen
Essential Questions
Why is it important to express myself appropriately at school?
How and why can expressing myself appropriately create a safe and calm environment at school?
What can expressing my needs and wants appropriately help me feel? Why will it make me feel that way?
What can expressing my emotions appropriately help me feel? Why will it make me feel that way?
Learning Progressions and Quick Checks
LP: DESCRIBE examples of what good friends look like.
LP:DEMONSTRATE and LABEL on paper how you show you are a good friend
QC: Students will draw and label a picture and write one to two sentences describing how they show they are a good friend to others.
LP: GIVE EXAMPLES and NON EXAMPLES of cooperation in work
QC: Students will sort examples and nonexamples of being cooperative.
LP: ILLUSTRATE your commitment to being a good friend
LP: DESCRIBE your purpose for being a good friend
QC: Students will use a blank piece of paper to draw a picture of them committing to be a good friend and write at least 2 sentences about why it is important to be a good friend.