We Are Friends
Objectives
- D02.S1.K.01 Take turns and share materials during play with a gentle reminder.
- D02.S2.K.01 Describe how a friend or story character might feel in a simple situation.
- D02.S3.K.01 Name a community they belong to and one thing people do together in it.
- D02.S4.K.01 Help a classmate or care for a shared space when shown how.
Essential questions
- How do we live well together — sharing, taking turns, and helping?
- What is a community, and how do we belong to one?
Big ideas
- Friendship is practiced through sharing, listening, and kindness.
- We each belong to communities — family, class, and neighborhood — and help make them caring places.
Lessons
- 1 Taking Turns 45 minutes
- 2 Sharing Our Things 45 minutes
- 3 Asking for a Turn with Kind Words 45 minutes
- 4 Waiting and Passing 45 minutes
- 5 How Is My Friend Feeling? 45 minutes
- 6 Feelings in Stories 45 minutes
- 7 What Makes a Friend Glad or Sad 45 minutes
- 8 Being a Good Listener 45 minutes
- 9 My Family Community 45 minutes
- 10 My Class Community 45 minutes
- 11 My Neighborhood 45 minutes
- 12 Helping Hands 45 minutes
- 13 Caring for Our Classroom 45 minutes
- 14 We Are Friends 45 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of sharing, turn-taking, and helping during play; a class "caring community" picture and retellings as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 4 — We Are Friends
Overview
This unit lives out what Who Am I? began: now that learners can notice their own feelings, they practice living well with others. Through turn-taking, sharing, reading a friend’s feelings, naming the communities they belong to, and helping care for shared spaces, children learn that relationship is a set of skills to practice, not rules to obey — in a spirit of mutual aid rather than competition.
Essential questions
- How do we live well together — sharing, taking turns, and helping?
- What is a community, and how do we belong to one?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking Turns | D02.S1.K.01 |
| 2 | Sharing Our Things | D02.S1.K.01 |
| 3 | Asking for a Turn with Kind Words | D02.S1.K.01 |
| 4 | Waiting and Passing | D02.S1.K.01 |
| 5 | How Is My Friend Feeling? | D02.S2.K.01 |
| 6 | Feelings in Stories | D02.S2.K.01 |
| 7 | What Makes a Friend Glad or Sad | D02.S2.K.01 |
| 8 | Being a Good Listener | D02.S2.K.01 |
| 9 | My Family Community | D02.S3.K.01 |
| 10 | My Class Community | D02.S3.K.01 |
| 11 | My Neighborhood | D02.S3.K.01 |
| 12 | Helping Hands | D02.S4.K.01 |
| 13 | Caring for Our Classroom | D02.S4.K.01 |
| 14 | We Are Friends | D02.S1.K.01, D02.S2.K.01, D02.S3.K.01, D02.S4.K.01 |