Me and My Friend Venn Diagram

Read each friendship problem aloud and talk about why one fix works better than the others. Let students practice the conversation starters with a partner. Share a few friendship recipes with the class, since hearing what others wrote is half the fun.

Six friendship pages for 1st and 2nd grade. Students cut out 8 cards and sort good friend traits, read friendship problems and pick the best way to fix each one, color the compliments and leave the put-downs, and finish sentence starters for talking to a new friend. Two writing pages have them write a recipe for friendship and compare themselves with a friend in a Venn diagram. Three pages have an answer key.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade social-emotional learning, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with Friendship. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

By talking through a few choices and picking the one that is fair to everyone. On the friendship problems page, students read each problem and pick the best way to fix it, which is a good moment to ask why the other choices would not work as well.

A writing page where students think about what makes a good friend and write it as a recipe, with ingredients like kindness and sharing. It is a fun way to put what they know about friendship into their own words.

At 6 to 8, children are ready for bigger feeling words like frustrated, nervous and proud, and for noticing what caused a feeling. They practice solving friendship problems, giving compliments, seeing a situation from someone else's point of view, telling a small problem from a big one, and choosing a calm down strategy that works for them. These worksheets add short reading and writing to each skill.

A growth mindset is the belief that you can get better at something with practice and effort. A child with a fixed mindset says I can't do it, while a child with a growth mindset says I can't do it yet. The growth mindset pages have children sort fixed and growth mindset sentences, add the word yet, and read a short story about a girl who learns from a mistake.

Size of the problem is a way to help children match their reaction to what happened. A small problem, like losing a pencil, needs a small reaction and can be fixed alone. A big problem, like someone getting hurt, needs a grown-up right away. Sorting problems into small, medium and big on paper makes it easier to remember in the moment.

No. Social-emotional learning is taught alongside the core subjects, and these pages are not tagged to a Common Core or C3 Framework standard. Many schools follow their own SEL program, and these worksheets fit next to any of them as practice and discussion starters.