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Friends

Social-Emotional Skills are such a large part of the Preschool curriculum. Most of our activities are group based and we spend a lot of time and instruction learning about how to be a good friend and how to treat the people around us. In February, I send home a handful of cutout hearts with each child. I ask parents to document each time they catch their child doing something kind and send it back to school. We then read them aloud to the class and hang them on our wall. The goal is to cover the entire wall with hearts. We also focus on one character trait each week. We discuss the trait and give examples of that trait and then watch for students exhibiting that character trait throughout the week.
Some books that I use to reinforce our lessons are:
*"Stick and Stone"
*"A Sick Day for Amos McGee"
*"How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?"
*"Llama Llama and the Bully Goat"
*"Rainbow Fish"
*"Should I Share my Ice Cream?"
*"My Friend is Sad?"
*"What Should Danny Do?"
*"The Crayon Box that Talked"
*"The Recess Queen"
*"Enemy Pie"

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