Making Friends: Listening and Learning Together!

Making Friends: Listening and Learning Together!

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will understand how to make friends and the importance of listening.

What do you already know about making friends?

Slide 1: What is a Friend?

A friend is someone you enjoy spending time with, someone who cares about you and wants to play and learn together.

Slide 2: Listening to Friends

Listening means paying attention to what your friend is saying and trying to understand their feelings and thoughts.

Interactive Activity: Listening Song

Sing the 'Listen and Learn' song together. Pay attention to the lyrics and practice listening skills.

Slide 3: Being Kind

Being kind means treating others with respect, being helpful, and using nice words.

Interactive Activity: Kindness Book

Read the book 'The Kindness Tree' together. Discuss the different acts of kindness shown in the story.

Slide 4: Sharing and Taking Turns

Sharing means letting others play with your toys or taking turns using them. It shows kindness and helps build friendships.

Interactive Activity: Sharing Game

Play a sharing game together. Take turns sharing objects and talking about how it feels to share.

Slide 5: Making New Friends

Making new friends can be exciting. Smile, introduce yourself, and find common interests to talk about.

Interactive Activity: Friendship Video

Watch a short video about making friends. Pay attention to the tips and advice shared in the video.

Slide 6: Review

Let's review what we learned today: friends are people we enjoy spending time with, listening is important, kindness helps build friendships, sharing and taking turns is important, and making new friends can be exciting!

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.