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Wear your favorite pajamas or comfy clothes!

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Wear something silly or mismatched to show it’s OK to be different !

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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Mrs. Diggs Reads: Our Class is a Family!

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Mrs. Diggs Reads: Our Class is a Family!

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Mrs. Diggs Reads: Our Class is a Family!

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What does is mean to be kind?

How can you show kindness at school?

What are some kind words that you can say to others?

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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Sesame Street: Try a Little Kindness (with Tori Kelly)

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How do you treat someone that looks or sounds different from you? (when ask describe ways that people differ)

What is something special or unique about you?

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Videos - TK-2nd: The World's Family (An Embracing Culture Story)!

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Videos - TK-2nd: The World's Family (An Embracing Culture Story)!

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The World's Family (An Embracing Culture Story) kid's /children's podcast

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Sesame Street: We're Different, We're the Same | Read Along Series Video!

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Sesame Street: We're Different, We're the Same | Read Along Series Video!

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Sesame Street: We're Different, We're the Same | Read Along Series

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Just like there is diversity in skin color and language, there is also diversity in ability. Meet Julia who has Autism.

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Sesame Street and Autism: We’re Amazing, 1, 2, 3!

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How is your child the same or different from Julia, Elmo, or Abby? Tell us at #seeamazing. Sesame Street in Communities brings free video content of everyone's favorite, furry Muppet friends as they help children and the adults in their lives reach their highest potential.

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The Pieces of Me Activities and Worksheets!

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The Pieces of Me Activities and Worksheets!

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Directions, Poster, Puzzle Pieces, Worksheets, Mini Book

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Wonders Activity! I have the short version of the book if you would like to use it!

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Wonders Activity! I have the short version of the book if you would like to use it!

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Use the template for kids to create their own Wonder self portrait. Have them write: (Name) is a wonder because ______________ (what makes them unique and special).

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Wonders Activity! I have the short version book if you would like to use it!

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Wonders Activity! I have the short version book if you would like to use it!

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Wonder activity sheets. Complete Page 2 (or any other page you want) "What makes you WONDERful?" Proudly display in the hallway or you classroom.

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One Activity! I have the book if you would like to use it!

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One Activity! I have the book if you would like to use it!

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Have students write/draw something kind they are going to do for someone else. Attach in the shape of 1 on the banner that says "How Many Does it Take to Make a Difference?"

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Learners take action for the common good to promote kindness in their school. They give smiley stickers to others or create posters to display around school with messages that promote kindness or teach people how to respond to bullying behavior.

Print One 40-Minute or Two 20-Minute Sessions, plus time to carry out a service plan of action

The learner will:

recognize that citizens have a responsibility for the common good.

list ways to help both the bully and the victim.

brainstorm ideas to prevent bullying behavior.

(K-1) spead kindness and recognize words and acts of kindness with smiley stickers.

(second grade) create posters that teach others to stop bullying behaviors in the classrooms, school, and playground.

Read aloud copy of "Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud

a small bucket, such as a sand pail OR make a poster with Bucket Filler vs Bucket Dipper

lots of small paper hearts to put in the pail

(optional) poster paper and art supplies for decorating (markers, crayons, colored paper)

(optional) circle stickers (one page per student)

(optional) Handout One: Bucket of Kindness

bullying: repeated teasing, hurting, or scaring of someone who seems different

bully: a person who likes to tease, hurt, or scare people. A bully often picks on people who seem different.

philanthropy: giving time, talent, or treasure and taking action for the common good

victim: a person cheated, fooled, or harmed by another

bystander: a person who is present at the action but isn't involved or isn't one of the main participants

Communicate with the students' families so the families can support the anti-bullying campaign from home. Share information with families about bullying behavior and how to respond to bullying. Send a few of the paper hearts home with each student. Ask them to explain practicing kind behavior to their family members and to fill a container when acts of kindness occur.

Guide students in reflection before, during, and after they take action to prevent bullying and promote kindness.

Before they take action, reflect with students on what they might need to be sensitive about as they carry out their plan.

Reflect with the students as they carry out their plans. Discuss how it is going, how students are responding, whether they see any new acts of kindness, and what they should do next.

Discuss whether their action has made a difference. Do they feel more safety and trust at school.

Instructions

Students determine the needs at their school. They make a plan that will teach others about bullying and how to stop it. The service project may include making posters with positive messages or anti-bullying tips. Or the students may perform role-plays for other classrooms. Or they may start a campaign of kindness that includes filling buckets with kind deeds. See this YouTube video about one boy's action against bullying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ctb1ehw3W0

Read about the service-learning project called Swing Into Kindness by Indiana students who were taught using this Spreading the Kind Word lesson to guide student learning and action.

Ms. Koch is an Indiana teacher who says, "teaching service and philanthropy to students builds leadership skills, confidence, empathy, and a culture centered on kindness and helping others."

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Learners take action for the common good to promote kindness in their school. They give smiley stickers to others or create posters to display around school with messages that promote kindness or teach people how to respond to bullying behavior.

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Wear your favorite hat and lets put a CAP on bullying!

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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What does bullying look and sound like?

How does a bully make others feel?

What are ways to keep yourself safe if you are being bullied at school or at home?

What can you do if you see someone being bullied?

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Videos - Sesame Street: Don't be a Bully!

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Videos - Sesame Street: Don't be a Bully!

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Be an Upstander - Prevent Bullying: A NED Short

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Make a copy -  Dealing with Bullying Slides

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Make a Copy - For Google Classroom Bullying!

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Tattling vs. Reporting

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3rd-6th Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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3rd-6th Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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What does bullying look and sound like?

How does a bully make others feel?

What are ways to keep yourself safe if you are being bullied at school or at home?

What can you do if you see someone being bullied?

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They say "queer" once in the beginning. Just to let you know but otherwise the message is great!

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When You See a Grizzly... | Jose Sabedra | TEDxKids@ElCajon

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Make a copy -  Dealing with Bullying Slides

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Make a Copy - For Google Classroom Bullying!

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Bullying Conversation or Writing Prompts!

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Bullying Conversation or Writing Prompts!

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Bullying Prevention Discussion Prompts - Counselor Keri

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This sheet could be used to give students a better understanding of bullying vs conflict. Scenarios of each one could be given and you can have students identify what is teasing, conflict, bullying, or a mean moment.

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This booklet will help students identify what bullying looks like. It includes a pledge.

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Dress to impress and give a friend a compliment!

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We all BELONG here at Naranca! Wear your Naranca or blue shirts!

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A lesson the power of words.

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Teaching our students to be a good friend and be kind to one another is often something that gets lost in the fast paced world of education. We often tell our students to "be a good friend" or "be kind", but how often do we TEACH them how to do this? A group of 9 TpT sellers have collaborated to bring you 9 engaging and fun resources to help teach your students HOW to be kind to one another.

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Kindness is such an abstract concept for many of our concrete, visual learners. This kindness sort provides visual representations of behaviors that are both kind and unkind. Students sort the behaviors. In this download you will receive 3 sorts for whole group and individual use:

❤️Whole class pocket chart sort
❤️Individual picture sort
❤️Individual word sort

As an added bonus, you'll also receive a page for students to write about what kindness means to them!

Check out other FREE kindness activities for special education by searching#KindnessRules!

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Related Product: Raise Your Hand: A Social Narrative for Special Needs Students.

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Teaching our students to be a good friend and be kind to one another is often something that gets lost in the fast paced world of education. We often tell our students to "be a good friend" or "be kind", but how often do we TEACH them how to do this?

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3rd-6th Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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3rd-6th Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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What does it mean to "be kind"?

Tell about a time that someone was kind to you? How did you feel?

What is something that you did to show kindness?

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PLANTING THE SEEDS OF PEACE:  EXPLORING AND CELEBRATING OUR DIFFERENCES (Accessible Preview)

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A lesson the power of words.

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Hear the stories of real kids who have recently immigrated to the United States.

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Hear the immigration stories of real immigrant kids who have recently immigrated to the United States from Asia, Africa, and Europe. See videos, maps, and photos.

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3rd-6th Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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3rd-6th Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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How do you treat someone that is different from you? (when ask describe ways that people differ)

Since everyone is special in their own way, what is something special or unique about you?

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Please enjoy excerpts from Just Like You - Down Syndrome. Watch the full version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M--xOyGUX4.

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The Pieces of Me Activities and Worksheets!

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The Pieces of Me Activities and Worksheets!

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Directions, Poster, Puzzle Pieces, Worksheets, Mini Book

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The Name Jar Game Show! Comes with additional worksheets, please let m know if you would like them and I will email them to you!

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The Name Jar Game Show! Comes with additional worksheets, please let m know if you would like them and I will email them to you!

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The Name Jar_Diversity Lesson_ Game Show

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INSTRUCTIONS_The Name Jar_Cultural Diversity School Counseling Lesson

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GOOGLE SLIDES The Name Jar Book Stody Game Show 

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Hear the stories of real kids who have recently immigrated to the United States.

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Hear the immigration stories of real immigrant kids who have recently immigrated to the United States from Asia, Africa, and Europe. See videos, maps, and photos.

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Children explore an online resource and learn to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic.

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Estimated time

Why?

Identity self-portraits give students an opportunity for self-understanding by encouraging them to reflect on different facets of their identities. By identifying symbols to include, students think more deeply about their values, interests and beliefs. By displaying them, they give others insight into students' multi-layered identities.

Get Ready

1. Introduce the concept of identity portraits. Model the creation of an identity portrait for students, perhaps with another teacher known to the class.

2. Facilitate a discussion about a character or figure from the central text and how their identity and actions represent social justice themes. As a class, brainstorm symbols that represent the identity and themes under discussion (e.g., scales of justice, Star of David, etc.).

3. If possible, provide students with access to mirrors so they can see themselves as they sketch.

4. Adapt the sample rubric into a visual checklist for students. Refer to the rubric to define expectations and components of an identity self-portrait before students begin working.

Get Set

1. Verbally introduce students to the preparatory steps included in the Do Something Planning Guide. Instruct them in the process of mapping the steps necessary to prepare for their identity self-portrait.

2. Allow students time to create identity self-portraits in the medium of their choice (collage, watercolor, colored pencil, etc.). Each portrait should include symbols in the background representing their identity, diversity, anti-bias, social justice, values or beliefs. For example, a student whose family is from Puerto Rico might include a Puerto Rican flag in her portrait, or a student who values peace and nonviolence could add a peace sign in his portrait background.

Go!

1. Organize a gallery walk for students to admire the portraits and leave feedback, comments or connections on sticky notes.

2. If students feel comfortable, consider displaying the portraits outside of the classroom so other members of the school community can observe student's work. For younger students who write mainly in invented spelling, post correctly spelled versions of the writing so others can read student's ideas.

Facilitate a conversation or assign a journal assignment about how students' identity self-portraits reflected central text themes. Some suggested reflection questions include:

What did you learn about yourself through the process?

How is your self-portrait similar to and different from your classmates' self-portraits?

How do the themes in the central text connect to how you represent your identity?

English language learners

Identity self-portraits provide students with a creative way to demonstrate understanding through a task that is not purely language-based. This task focuses on spatial/artistic and intra-personal learning modalities.

Connection to anti-bias education

The process of creating self-portraits teaches students to think deeply about identities, values, interests and beliefs, all central to the goals of anti-bias education. Students gain a better understanding of the diversity within their class and reflect on their own identities.

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Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos.

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TK-2nd Grade meet up questions, lessons, activities, and videos. 

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Here are optional lessons that we hope you will use this week! Please remind students of the dress up days and pass out the flyers. I will also be sharing on Parentsquare. Below you can find the video to play at the end of this week and/or the beginning of next week! If something doesn't give you access, please just email us. HAPPY YOU BELONG WEEK!

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What does it mean to be safe?

How did you show kindness this week?

How were you a good friend this week?

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Sesame Street: Elmo And Rosita Teach Friendship!

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Sesame Street: Elmo And Rosita Teach Friendship!

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Sesame Street: Elmo and Rosita Teach Friendship

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The Power of Union is Strength - Crabs VS Ants VS Penguins Advertisement

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Learning Friends: Fox And Penguin Take Turns!

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Learning Friends: Fox And Penguin Take Turns!

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Learning Friends: Fox And Penguin Take Turns

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Create classroom posters or lists of what friends do and don't do.

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Can you imagine how difficult it is to run centers or do paired work when you constantly hear "but I don't want to work with him/her." Or when the day to day running of your classroom is filled with, "he's/she's looking at me, copying my work, breathes too heavily, keeps sniffing..."

It's exhausting!

And not just for the teacher but also for the students.

When children don't like each other, school isn't a nice place to be. There's less student engagement which then affects outcomes and even emotional health.

As we know, it's crucial for teachers to create a positive classroom community. Without that, classrooms can become disharmonious places and you can believe me when I say the year my kids didn't get along, my classroom certainly was!

That year we had to do some serious work on building friendships and learning about friendly behaviors.

What is a friendly behavior?

There's a difference between being friends and being friendly. Not everyone is going to be your friend but everyone needs to be friendly to each other if a positive classroom community is going to exist.

A classroom should be a place where children want to come to.

A place where they feel safe and comfortable.

Where they feel free to express themselves in a positive way.

Where they can ask and answer questions without worrying about what their peers are going to say.

If you know anytime you give the wrong answer or don't know how to do something, someone in the class is going to say something negative to you, you are definitely less likely to want to participate.

When children are friendly to each other, they tolerate mistakes and are even encouraging and supportive. Learning is allowed to take place!

Creating a positive classroom community with posters

A continuous focus on social skills is important but for quick results, I used posters.

Like any good poster, it's important not to put them up on the wall never to refer to them again.

Yes, mine were on the wall, but, each morning for a couple of weeks in our morning meeting we would talk about what friendly behavior is and what is not.

For example: What does sharing look like, sound like, feel like? What can I share, what shouldn't I share? And then we would role play.

I would choose a new friendship attribute to discuss each day.

If I saw a behavior that wasn't friendly, I always asked, "Is that friendly?" Eyes would instantly go to the posters.

It's also important to differentiate that we don't all have to be friends but we have to be friendly.

Reward friendly behavior

The year I had the group of kids that couldn't get along, I put in place a reward system that was based on them being friendly.

I made popcorn shapes out of card. Each time I heard kids using friendly words or showing friendly deeds I would place a piece of popcorn on a cut out of a popcorn box. When the box/jar was 'full' we had a class reward - generally a popcorn party!

Of course, there were the kids who would wait until I was in earshot and say, "Wow that's really neat writing Liam." Or "You're really good at that Simone. I like the way you solved that problem."

That didn't matter because if I heard that friendly language being modeled you can bet that others did too.

My kids also got really good at reporting what others had done for them. Because the idea was to encourage friendly behavior it really didn't worry me how often they reported it.

Friendship was our focus after all.

It didn't take long before everyone was onboard with showing their friendly side which ultimately meant that they could work together more effectively.

Read stories based on friendship

There are many storybooks based on friendship that you'll find in any school library.

Everyone knows The Rainbow Fish and I've seen great friends themed units of work based on The Little Red Hen.

You'll find that many children's books have something about friendship in them which makes it easy to ask during the reading of the story, "Was ___ showing good friendship skills? What could he have done instead?"

I've found many great picture books in the $2 bin at the bookstore.

Encouraging friendly behaviors will be a year-long process for some classrooms. You may not have to continue to use a reward system but referring to friendly behaviors in stories or referring back to the posters will help maintain a caring positive classroom community.

You can grab a set of posters for your classroom here.

If you decide to try the posters in your room, I'd love to know how they go.

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How to create a positive classroom community - Teaching Trove

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Can you imagine how difficult it is to run centers or do paired work when you constantly hear "but I don't want to work with him/her." Or when the day to day running of your classroom is filled with, 'he's/she's looking at me, copying my work, breathes too heavily, keeps sniffing...'

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The Little White Owl - Friendship Lesson!

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The Little White Owl - Friendship Lesson!

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Guess what? I am just like you! If you are a busy teacher looking for a way to make your life easier, search no further! Believe me, I understand your struggle. I've spent the last 25 years teaching and acquiring my best practices and strategies to help young learners grow. I firmly believe my ... [read more]

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The Little White Owl is all about friendship and accepting the differences in people (owls, too!) We created a chart by describing what good friends do... Great Book Found Here The owls below are by some teacher friends of mine...cute, right? I love that they used scrapbook paper and newspaper to create the artwork.