This resource includes the tools you need to teach your students how to strengthen friendships, build new relationships, and learn what it means to be a great friend at the beginning of the school year. This is a great way to model the importance of kindness in friendships to assist in building classroom culture. Your students will have the understanding that positive conversation, kindness, and empathy are all important characteristics of a friend and classmate. This resource focuses on the story "Peanut Butter and Cupcake" by Terry Border.

What's included:

• 14 printable activities available in full-page activity worksheets
• 5 different writing activities to focus on building strong friendships.
• Peer to Peer collaborative games
• Multiple getting to know you activities
• Engaging whole group movement activities
• ELA focused materials to go along with the story "Peanut Butter & Cupcake"
• Friendship activities for both whole group and individual learning.
• Sentence starter guide to assist students in a prompt to introduce themselves to a new friend or peer.

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Related Resources:

Another SEL resource that we have in our shop is our "Remarkably You" activities which focus on building students' self-confidence in who they are. Click on the link below to see more.

Remarkably You Resource

We also have our "Kindness Boot Camp" resource which focuses on building classroom culture, kindness, and empathy at the beginning of the school year. Click on the link below to see more.

Kindness Boot Camp

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