Qualities
This quality in a friend helps us to feel safe sharing our worries, thoughts, and feelings.
What is trustworthy?
As a good friend we should tell our friends things about themselves that help them to feel ____.
What is confident?
When our teacher assigns these in school, we always want to be partnered with our close friends.
What are group projects?
In order to maintain our friendships over time it is really important that we are ____ so that our friends can trust that we will not betray them.
What is loyal?
During normal times, our friends ______ feel like they have to sit with us every single day at lunch.
What is shouldn't
We all need to feel like we have someone we can talk to. This type of friend makes people feel heard.
What is a good listener?
When we find out that a friend was not honest with us, this can make us feel _____.
What is hurt, betrayed, or angry.
When there is a new person at school and we want to be friends with them, we should ______.
What is approach them kindly?
*open to other responses*
To build a long- lasting friendship it is important that we do what we say we will do and we show up when we said we would. This is called being ______.
What is dependable?
When our best friend makes plans with someone else to hang out after school, we might feel a little left out. It ____ okay for us to have other friends and not always invite our best friend to everything.
What is is?
Our friends are meant to be safe people who we can truly be ourselves around. This quality helps people feel safe to be themselves.
What is non- judgemental?
When a friend shares a secret with us that they have never told anyone before this can make us feel ____ and we want to make them feel _____.
What is special and supported?
Sometimes best friends will make up this as a way they can greet each other. It is special, and only they know how to do it.
What is a secret handshake?
Sometimes it can be hard to tell people difficult things or have hard conversations. It is really important to try to always be ______ with our friends.
What is honest?
T or F : It is fair to tell a friend that they can only be friends with you
What is false?
This quality means you are someone who makes an effort to and is able to recognize and understand the feelings of others. Another word for this quality is compassionate.
When we are trying to make a new friend and we decide to ask them to do something with us, we might feel a little ____.
What is nervous?
When we are with our friends watching a funny movie, playing games or telling inside jokes, we will often all be doing this which makes us feel happy and connected to each other.
What is laughing?
Because we often cannot see people in person, this important part of friendship is something many people are missing during 2020.
What is quality time?
When you want something that someone else has , and you are mad about it, this is called being __________.
What is jealous?
This quality is important for our own self- esteem, but it is also important for our friends to feel this way so that they do not often act out of jealousy or insecurity.
What is confident?
When we feel bad for forgetting to invite one of our friend(s) to hangout and they find out the next day.
What is guilty?
T or F: Some things we can do to spend time with our friends is spread rumors, comment/write mean things on social media about a person we don't like, argue with each other, ignore others.
What is false!!!
We can keep in touch with our friends in 2020 by ____
a) seeing them in your zoom classroom
b) ignoring their texts/calls/Facetime
c) checking in on them virtually if we cannot see them in person right now
What is C?
What should you NOT do?
Your friend gets invited to hangout with some other kids after school.
Open response!
Ex. get jealous and say you aren't friends with them anymore, be mean because you weren't invited, make them feel guilty about not inviting you.
Bonus: What SHOULD you do instead?