Friendship

Making, maintaining, and even sometimes finding a healthy way to end friendships is all an important skill for our students! We discuss specific skills that go into friendships (such as communication, honesty, flexibility, kindness, compromise, and empathy) in Community Circle time as well as during monthly counseling lessons.

---> In 3rd grade, we use the Second Steps Bullying Prevention curriculum to discuss the specifics of what bullying is, as well as how to ask for help and ways to end the bullying; we also discuss cyber bullying.

Below are some resources that adults can use with children to better support children and their changing friendships.