Title: Friendship/Fairness K,1,2,3
Standards:
Standard A: Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal
skills to help them understand and respect self and others.
PS:A1 Acquire Self-knowledge
PS:A1.9 Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups
PS:A1.10 Identify personal strengths and assets
PS:A2 Acquire Interpersonal Skills
PS:A2.1 Recognize that everyone has rights and responsibilities
PS:A2.2 Respect alternative points of view
PS:A2.3 Recognize, accept, respect and appreciate individual
differences
PS:A2.4 Recognize, accept and appreciate ethnic and cultural
diversity
PS:A2.6 Use effective communications skills
PS:A2.7 Know that communication involves speaking, listening and
nonverbal behavior
PS:A2.8 Learn how to make and keep friends
Standard B: Students will make decisions, set goals and take necessary
action to achieve goals.
PS:B1 Self-knowledge Application
PS:B1.6 Know how to apply conflict resolution skills
PS:B1.7 Demonstrate a respect and appreciation for individual and
cultural differences
Standard C: Students will understand safety and survival skills.
PS:C1 Acquire Personal Safety Skills
PS:C1.3 Learn about the differences between appropriate and inappropriate
physical contact
PS:C1.4 Demonstrate the ability to set boundaries, rights and personal
privacy
PS:C1.5 Differentiate between situations requiring peer support and
situations requiring adult professional help
PS:C1.6 Identify resource people in the school and community, and
know how to seek their help
PS:C1.7 Apply effective problem-solving and decision-making skills
to make safe and healthy choices
Objective:
Students will acquire attitude, knowledge, interpersonal skills to help them
understand and respect self and others. Students will identify what a good friend
is.
Activity:
What does it mean to be fair?
Play by rules, take turns, share, tell the truth, listen to people with an open mind,
treat people the way you want to be treated, think about how your actions will
affect others, don’t blame others for your mistakes, don’t take advantage of other
people, don’t play favorites.
What are some behaviors that aren’t fair?
Cutting in line, tattling, interrupting.
How does fairness or unfairness affect their relationships with others?
1.Have a conversation with two puppets and have pig interrupt.
2. Have two puppets playing a game, and one cheats.
3. Have two puppets taking a test, and one cheats off the other.
4.Have two puppets playing tag and the one gets out but the other didn’t tag
them, what should the puppet do?
5. Have puppets line up and Maddie has to go to the bathroom, when she comes
back, Alex lets her cut .
6.Listening, they have to agree on a gift for their Grandma, but each one won’t
listen to the other’s ideas (show ignoring)
7.Have two puppets work on a project and a third one is goofing around.
8. Have puppets pass out 2 pencils to all the students, but Maddie only wants to
give 1 to someone who was mean to her.
9. When the puppets are passing out pencils Maddie wants to pass them out
(takes turns) Alex won’t let her—he wants to do it.
Discussion questions
What’s the problem?
What are their choices?
Have you ever had the same problem—how did you solve it?
What should Alex/Maddie say?
K: Being nice, p.120 jelly bean book, share p. 119.Can do share activity, pass an
object around, give them few seconds to touch and pass.
1: Don’t squeal unless it is a big deal. Do pickle page. Do Honest worksheet.
2: Don’t squeal unless it is a big deal: Do tell v. tattle page. Do Good behavior
sheet, p.143. jelly bean book.
3. Read My mouth is a volcano. Do interrupting lesson p.155.and worksheet
p.158. If time, do cooperation maze activity.
Additional:
Go to tolerance.com—a new friend book and do it with the class.
Do a puppet show where the kids have to guess what is friendly vs. what is not.
Go over what are good qualities of a friend.
Do: be a friend book, cut it out, staple it and read it while the kids color it.
Puppet show:
Good behaviors
Bad behaviors
Helping
bossiness
Sharing
Tattling
Caring
Teasing
Complimenting
Lying
Being fair
Being selfish
Using manners
Interrupting
Qualities of a good friend:
Good listener
Trusting
Honest encourages you
Respects you
Shares
Sticks up for you
Doesn’t try to get you in trouble
Nice