Feelings and kindness
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Thinking sheet · Feelings and kindness
Recipe for a Good Friend
What goes into a great friend? Write the recipe with amounts, then draw you and a friend.
- Grades
- K–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Kids practice
- friendship skills, self-reflection, procedural writing
What kids do
“Mix up the perfect friend. What ingredients do you need?”
- Ingredients (a cup of kindness…)
- Me and a friend
- How to mix it
- One ingredient I bring to my friendships:
How to run it
- Brainstorm friend qualities as a class first.
- Amounts are fun: a spoonful of jokes, a whole bowl of sharing.
- Display the recipes as a class “cookbook”.
Talk about it
- Which ingredient matters most?
- Can a friend have too much of one ingredient?
- Which ingredient do you want more of?
Take it further
Write a recipe for a good classroom or a good team.
Pairs well with
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