Helping a Friend Picture Match

Talk about each picture as a little story: what happened, and what would a good friend do? Act out the swing turns or the snack share with real toys or crackers. Afterward, notice and name it when your child uses a friendly word or takes turns.

Six friendship pages for Pre-K and Kindergarten. Children give a thumbs up or down to friend choices, share 6 crackers fairly between Ava and Leo, cut out three pictures and put turns on the swing in order, and match each problem to a friend who helps. They also trace please, thank you and sorry, and draw themselves playing with a friend. Four pages have an answer key.

Yes, both. We made it for Kindergarten 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.

Practice it in short games where the wait is only a few seconds, and say whose turn it is out loud. The swing page shows turn-taking as a story in three pictures that children cut out and put in order.

Children use the words they hear and say often. Tracing please, thank you and sorry while talking about when to use each one gives them ready words for real moments with friends.

Social-emotional learning, often called SEL, is how children learn to understand their feelings, get along with others and make good choices. For 4 to 6 year olds that means naming feelings like happy, sad and mad, sharing and taking turns, using kind words, calming down with a few deep breaths, and trying again when something is hard. These worksheets practice each of those with pictures, not reading.

Name feelings out loud in everyday moments, yours and theirs: you look frustrated, the tower fell down. Then use a picture page to practice, like circling the feeling face or matching a picture to how it would feel. Children who have words for a feeling can tell you about it instead of only showing it, which makes the feeling easier to handle together.

Slow breathing is the easiest to teach. Belly breathing and five-finger breathing give a child something to trace or touch while they breathe in and out, and stop, breathe, think gives them three steps to remember. Practice when your child is already calm, so the strategy is familiar before a big feeling arrives, and set up a calm down corner with a few comfort items.

Yes. The pages are written for Pre-K and Kindergarten. Each one uses pictures and a short direction that a grown-up reads aloud, and children answer by circling, matching, coloring, tracing, drawing or cutting and gluing. The only writing is tracing a few friendly or feeling words.