Friday Freebies (Recipes for Friendship)

Friendship Pizza Lesson

How to Make a Friendship Salad: Lesson Plan for Elementary School

Friendship Soup Recipe (YouTube lesson) Lesson Plan HERE.

Friendship Recipe: A writing activity for Valentine's Day by Angelica Alves

Back to School Friendship Salad by Explore Create Discover

Friendship Salad by Learning is something to treasure

Friendship Recipe by V-Squared

Valentine's Day Ingredients for Friendship by Lovely Literacy and More

Friendship Pie Recipe Cards (Free) by Jessica Millar

How to Make a Friendship Snack (Free) by My Pink Clipboard

Friendship Pizza by Laura Lawson

Friendship Treats by Especially Education

Counseling with Penguins

I am planning next weeks lessons and decided that it would be a good week to incorporate penguins in our lessons (it is freezing here in Illinois).  I've planned lessons covering the topics of self-esteem, empathy, problem solving, diversity and anger management.  These are three books that I will be using:

Pierre the Penguin 

 Purchase Pierre the Penguin HERE.

Pink!  

Purchase Pink! HERE.

Tacky the Penguin    

Purchase Tacky the Penguin HERE.

Connections:

Tacky The Penguin Connections:

I Like Tacky Because... (Free)

Create your own Tacky Shirt (Free) by Kinder Myles

Tacky the Penguin (Free) by Kinder Kids Kafe

Tacky the Penguin (Free) by Miz Riz Elementary Resources

Tacky the Penguin (Free)

Purchase Tacky the Penguin HERE.

Pink! Connections:

My Pink Penguin (Free) by Sarah Cooley

It's O.K. To Be Different ($4.50)

Purchase Pink! HERE

Helping Pierre the Penguin Connections:

Pierre the Penguin questions (Free) by Brooke Romp

Helping Pierre the Penguin (Free) by Creative Counselor

Purchase Pierre the Penguin HERE.

More Penguin Connections:

Penguin Problems - TAKING OWNERSHIP OF MINOR ISSUES in School for Everyone ($3.99) by portable gifted and talented.

Tear Penguin (Free) by Traci Clausen  (I used this as a coping skill (tearing paper).

If I were a penguin craftivity and writing (Free) by Tools to Grow

Book for dealing with Divorce:  The Pink Penguin

Penelope the Pink Penguin (confidence, self-esteem)

I Can Handle it! (emotions/problem solving)

I Can Handle It! by laurie Wright is a book that I plan to use for elementary students (pre-k-2nd grade).  I am going to use this book with my first grade students as a supplement to our second step lessons.  The book lists strong emotions, the problem that caused the emotion, and a list of ways to solve the problem.  Some of the solutions are "nonsense" solutions but there are many good solutions as well.  For example, one of the feelings is frustrated.  The situation that causes frustration is adults not listening.  Solutions listed include; I can say, "excuse me", I can write a letter, I can tell someone else.  I think this is a great introduction to problem solving and this book will encourage students to think of ways that they can handle situations that may cause strong emotions.  Also, this book uses a mantra (automatic thought) that can be used to think clearly about the situation and come up with strategies to solve it.  I have not introduced mantras to students in the past but after reading more about how they can be used to help students I plan to try it out.  The mantra used in this story is "I can handle it!".

You can purchase I Can Handle It! HERE.

Connections:

If you don't use Second Step this would be a good lesson to use with this book: https://classroom.kidshealth.org/prekto2/personal/growing/feelings.pdf

I Can Handle It by Laurie Wright (FREE)

I Can Handle it! Song! ($0.95)

How I Handled My Emotions Chart

Mindset Monday-Bubble Gum Brain

I recently ordered Bubble Gum Brain, by Julia Cook, and absolutely love this book!  My students are loving it as well (it may help that I let them chew gum while we read it).  You can also purchase an activity guide to go along with this book.  I did not purchase the activity guide so I can't say much about it.  Unfortunately, I don't think it was available when I purchased the book and I am out of funds for the school year (major bummer).  

Book Description:  Meet Bubble Gum Brain and Brick Brain:  two kids with two VERY different mindsets.  Bubble Gum Brain likes to have fun adventures, learn new things, and doesn't worry about making great mistakes.  Brick Brain is convinced that things are just fine the way they are and there's not much he can do to change them, so why try?  When Bubble Gum Brain shows Brick Brain how to peel off his wrapper, Brick Brain begins to realize just how much more fun school...and life..can be!  

You can purchase Bubble Gum Brain HERE.

You can purchase the activity guide HERE.

Connections:

This is a newer book so there are not a ton of resources to link to.  I imagine that as more people purchase this book we will see more lesson ideas out there.  For now I am going to post connections I have found on TPT:

Book Buddy for Bubble Gum Brain by Technology Tidbits (FREE)

Growth Mindset Bubble Gum Brain Lesson Plans and Activities by KG Firsties ($4.50)

***I purchased this one and would highly recommend

Growth Mindset Flipbook/Craft for the book Bubble Gum Brain by Julia Cook by Sports and Second

***I purchased this one and love it! ($3.00)

Julia Cook's BUBBLE GUM BRAIN: School Counseling Growth Mindset Lesson by Whole Hearted Counseling $3.00.  (I have not purchased YET...I plan to get this one though).

Bubble Gum Brain Literature Activities by Kristen's Kaboodle ($4.00)

Bubble Gum Brain Resources- Growth Mindset by Structured Play ($3.00)

Growth Mindset Writing Activity by Primary Scouts ($3.00)

Stick and Stone

I recently added Stick And Stone to my collection of books and am really liking it for my kindergarten-2nd grade students. It is a very simple story with few words on each page but the message is still there.  From the author's website:  Stick and Stone are all alone.  But when Pinecone makes fun of Stone and hurts his feelings, Stick steps in and defends Stone.  "That's just what sticks do.  Friends do it too," says Stick.  Now Stick and Stone are inseparable best friends.  When Stick gets stuck, it's Stone to the rescue.  That's just what stones do.  Best friendship rocks too," says Stone.  I also love that an activity kit is easily downloadable!  Purchase the book HERE.

Connections:

Stick and Stone Activity Kit from the Author's website:  Download HERE

Stick and Stone - Friendship Freebie by Khrys Greco (Free on TPT)

Stick and Stone Reader Response Freebie by Nicole Oconnor (Free on TPT)

Stick and Stone: Interactive Read-Aloud Lesson Plans and Activities ($3.50 on TPT)

Bullying Unit ($2.00 on TPT)

Empathy (Hey, Little Ant)

Hey, Little Ant is a great book that challenges readers to look at life from an insect's point of view.  It is the perfect book for teaching empathy.   It can be really difficult for young students to understand the concept of "standing in someone's shoes" and this book does a really good job of showing just what this means.  

Hey, Little Ant can be used to teach so many different topics.  The teacher's guide lists the following:

Respecting differences

Fostering respect for all living things

Considering stereotypes

Recognizing alternatives to resolving tension through violence

Exploring concepts of big and small, powerful and powerless

Standing up to peer pressure

Connections:
I absolutely love the lesson that lunchbuddiesplus shared on her blog.  She uses Hey, Little Ant to show the difference between  a "thinking of you" person vs. a "just me" person.

You can also get some ideas from the Hey, Little Ant Teacher's Guide.

Some good resources on TPT:
Social Skills, Perspective Taking, Thinking about others  ($3.50)


Bullying- Hey Little Ant! ($3.50)


These are all FREE on TPT:
Hey Little Ant Point of View by Lockwood's Little Learners


Ant Writing Response Pages {Freebie} by Jen Ross - Teacher by the Beach


Hey, Little Ant Opinion/Persuasive Writing by Creativity-To-The-Core



Ant Craftivity by Kelly-Morgan


Hey Little Ant Bulletin Board Writing  by Working-4-The-Classroom

Hey, Little Ant! Reader's Theater by Hanssen-House

Rudolph (Bullying, Diversity)

I found a lesson from WWW.PACER.ORG using Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and decided to use the lesson with one of my 3rd grade classes today.  I started out showing the students the YouTube clip of Rudolph being teased for being different from his peers.  We then used the discussion questions from the teaching guide and talked about differences and shining bright.  I also showed students the YouTube clip of the misfit toys and we talked about their feelings as well.  If you don't remember the misfit toys, they are the toys who were banished to a cold island because they were unique and didn't look like the other toys.  We then used the star template included in the Activity Guide and completed the sentence, My star shines bright because________________________.

Connections:

YouTube Link: Rudolph Gets Teased by the other reindeer

YouTube Link: The Island of the Misfit Toys

Discussion and Activity Guide