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Title: Count on me

Artist: Bruno Mars

Brief Teaser: Bruno Mars sings about how no matter where his friends are, he will always come to help them. He says if they are lost or stuck, friends are there to help. He also talks about how they can always count on him, just like he knows that he can count on them.

Teaching Ideas: Students will write a paper about a time when they needed a friend, or they helped a friend. In the paper they will discuss how it was helpful to be there, or have someone be there for them and how it effected their relationship.

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Bruno Mars - Count on me [Official Video]

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Title: Share a coke

Creator: Coca Cola

Brief Teaser: Coke's share a coke with a friend campaign was created to get customers thinking of others. Each coke bottle has a name on it and reads "share a coke with..." The idea is that customers will see a name they know and buy the coke and give it to them. This promotes friendship as well as kindness.

Teaching ideas: Students will be given a name of someone in the class. They will then be asked to do something nice for that person throughout the week, weather it be drawing them a picture, writing them a note, or having a thoughtful conversation. This will create a comfortable environment for students as well as allow students to get to know each other.

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Title: If You Give A Pig A Pancake

Author: Numeroff, Laura

Illustrator: Felicia Bond

Publication date: 1998

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: Ages 3-7

Approximate text level: Kindergarten

Brief Teaser: In this book you follow a little pig and her day after eating a pancake. Once she has a pancake, she wants syrup and syrup is sticky so she needs to take a bath. After that read as you see the silly and fun things the pig wants to do next.

Teaching Ideas: Have the
students pick their own animal and give them a food, such as "If you give a duck a cupcake" and have them make a fun story of what will happen to their animal throughout the day.

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Title: Enemy Pie

Author: Munson, Derek

Illustrated: Kind, Tara

Approximate interest level: 1st-3rd grade

Approximate text level: 1st grade

Brief Teaser: A little boy only has one person on his enemy list, his father creates him an "enemy pie" to give to his enemy. In hopes that the pie will get rid of his enemy, it does the opposite. It creates him a friend.

Teaching Ideas:  Students will create a "friendship pie" they will create a recipe of what ingredients will go into their friendship pie. After they will draw what a slice of their pie will look like.

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Title: Knuffle Bunny Too

Author: Willems, Mo

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: K-2

Approximate text level: K-2

Brief Teaser: Trixie has a one of a kind  Knuffle Bunny that no one else has- or so she thinks. What will happen when Trixie and her friend from school get their bunnies mixed up?

Teaching ideas: Have students bring in their favorite stuffed animal from home, and have them share the name of their special friend. Then allow students to draw a picture of them and their friend at school.

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Title: Kindness Boomerang

Author: Life vest

Brief Teaser: The video takes the viewer through how one act of kindness can be passed on from one person to the next throughout the day. It shows how one little act can change someones day and create a domino effect. It also shows how friendships can be created by helping others.

Teaching ideas: Student will be asked to complete one random act of kindness throughout the day and write a short paper about what the act was and the effect it had on the person you helped as well as the effect it had on themselves.

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Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day"

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Title: Little Quack

Author: Thompson, Lauren

Illustrated:  Anderson, Derek

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: Pre-K

Approximate text level: Kindergarten

Brief Teaser: Little Quack comes from a big family, who all love to swim. Little Quake is very scared to jump in the water. With the help of his brothers and sisters will little quack be able to jump in?

Teaching Ideas:  Create an interactive game of "duck duck goose" to get the children into the mind set of being a "little duck" then have a class discussion on why helping your friends is important.

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Title: Should I Share My Ice Cream

Author: Willems, Mo

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: Pre-K

Approximate text level: Pre- School

Brief Teaser: Elephant just got a super delicious ice cream treat. He is deciding if he should share his special treat with his friend or not. Piggy, Elephants friend would love to share with Elephant. What will Elephant do?

Teaching Ideas: Have a show and tell day where students bring in one of their favorite toys from home. Then have the student exchange the toys and allow students to play with these new toys before returning them to their owners.

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Title: My New Friend is So Fun

Author: Willems, Mo

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: Pre-K

Approximate text level:  Pre- School

Brief Teaser: Elephant and Piggy are best friends, but what will happen when Piggy becomes friends with someone else? In this book Elephant must realizes that it is okay to make new friends even if that means your best friend is someone else's friend.

Teaching Ideas: Have students think of their friends, students will draw a picture of them with their friend, as well as someone else. This will teach students about friendship as well as acceptance.

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Title: Norbert's Big Dream

Author: Degman, Lori

Illustrated: Bucci, Macro

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: K-2

Approximate text level: Kindergarten

Brief Teaser:  Norbert is not your typical pig who likes to play in mud and sleep all day. Norbert is a pig with a big dream, he wants to swim the English Channel. This book brings the reader through the journey of having a dream, and what needs to be done to accomplish that dream.

Teaching Ideas: Norbert's Big Dream focuses on reaching goals as well as friends who help along the way. In this lesson plan I will ask students to think of a dream that they have and create a drawing of their dream at the end and an obstacle course of things that may be in the way of reaching their goal, and how to get over it.

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Title:  You've Got a Friend In Me

Author: Newman, Randy

Brief Teaser: 'You've Got  a Friend In Me' is a song written about a friendship  in the movie Toy Story. The song talks about how no matter where the world might take you, or how tough the road ahead may look, you will always have a friend to help you on the journey.

Teaching Ideas: Watch a short scene from the movie "Toy Story", where friendship is a main focus. After the students watch the scene ask them to discuss why having a friend by your side is often a helpful thing when trying to get something done. Also discuss why maintaining friendships is important in and out of school.

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toy story - you've got a friend in me music

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Title: Gossie

Author/ Illustrator:  Dunrea, Olive

Publication Date: 2002

Approximate age level:  3-5

Approximate text level: Pre-k

Brief Teaser: Gossie loves her bright red boots and wears them almost everyday. One day however, Gossie cant find her red boots anywhere. She searches all throughout her house in hopes of finding them and almost gives up hope. Then, Gossie finally finds her red boots on someone elses feet. Follow as Gossie has to decide how to handle the situation.

Teaching Ideas: Create a maze,  the beginning is Gossie and the ending is her red boots, in between there is obstacles in the way. have students navigate Gossie back to her boots.

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Title: Beekle

Author/Illustrator: Santat, Dan

Publication Date: 2014

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: K-3

Approximate text level: Kindergarten

Brief Teaser: When an imaginary friend from imaginary Isalnd, has not yet been dreamed of by a child, he decided to go to the real people world and find a friend of his own. His journey has not been simple and Beekle will discover it is not always easy, but in the end it is worth it.

Teaching Ideas:  Have students imagine their perfect imaginary friend, what would they be like?what would you play? Where would they live? Then have the students draw out a picture of them and their imaginary friend.

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Title: Thomas and the Naughty Diesel

Author/Illustrator: Yee, Josie

Publication date: 1999

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: K-2

Approximate text level: Kindergarten

Brief teaser: Naughty Diesel the train gets in trouble and must redeem himself in order to solve a crisis and make friendships.

Teaching Ideas: Students will think of a time when they needed help from a peer. They will then write about how working together is the best way to get things done.

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Title: Sitting Ducks

Author : Bedard, Michael

Illustrator Puffin Books

Publication date: 2001

Genre: Fiction

Approximate interest level: 3-7

Approximate text level: 1st grade

Brief teaser: An  alligator working in a duck factory befriends a lonely duck and brings him home. At first, the alligator does not believe that they will be friends, but the duck has another idea.

Teaching Ideas: Student's create artwork demonstrating how two unlikely animals can become friends. Students draw the animals partaking in a game of some sort, and write a brief explanation about the friendship