Making New Friends-Cooperation

Grade 1

Objectives:

  • Students will learn that it is OK and important to meet new friends.
  • Students will learn that helping others in need is a valuable thing.
  • Students will learn that when they cooperate with one another they can make big things happen.

VA Standards:

  • EA5: Demonstrate individual initiative and positive interest in learning.
  • EP1: Exhibit the principles of character, including honesty, trustworthiness, respect for the rights and properties of others, respect for rules and laws, taking responsibility for one’s own actions, fairness, caring, & citizenship.
  • EP2: Understand how to make and keep friends and work cooperatively with others.
  • EP4: Demonstrate good manners and respectful behavior towards others.

Materials:

  • United Streaming: Brave Little Witch
  • Room on the Broom by, Julia Donaldson
  • Black line master of witch, broom
  • Orange paper
  • Glue sticks/crayons

Activity:

  • Introduce lesson: Sometimes you think you have all the friends that you need and do not want any others. You can be missing out on a lot by not meeting or getting know other people.
  • Ask children to think of ways that good friends treat each other. List answers on the board.
  • Good friends listen to each other.
  • Good friends don't put each other down or hurt each other's feelings.
  • Good friends try to understand each other's feelings and moods.
  • Good friends help each other solve problems.
  • Good friends give each other compliments.
  • Good friends can disagree without hurting each other.
  • Good friends are dependable.
  • Good friends respect each other.
  • Good friends are trustworthy.
  • Good friends care about each other.
  • We are going to watch a movie about a witch that gives a human girl a chance.
  • Did the Brave Little Witch really know all about humans from looking in the book? Do all humans think the same way? Like the same things? The only way she was going to get a chance to have new friends was to give the human girl a chance. Sounded like the witch and the human girl had lots of fun didn’t it? They would have missed out on something great if they had not given each other a chance!
  • Read the book, Room on the Broom and they are to listen for examples of friendship.
  • Process:
  • As the witch met new friends what did she do?
  • What did the witch lose? (Hat, her bow, her wand)
  • Then what happened to her broom?
  • How did her friends help her?
  • Could the witch fight off the dragon on her own?
  • Pass out witch handout and orange paper. Students color the witch on the hand out, cut it out and glue it on the orange sheet. Draw a broom. Draw some of your friends on the broom too! (Show an example of the product).

Conclusion:

It is important that students understand that they can include new friends. When friends all work together they can make something that is stronger and oftentimes better than if they try to do something alone.