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    Books That Teach Friendship and Social Skills

    Our class spends a LOT of time learning social skills, problem solving, friendship and conflict resolution. This helps to create a peaceful environment where learning can thrive, and we do not have to spend the majority of our time solving interpersonal conflicts. We use interactive lessons from The Kindness Classroom SEL curriculum, along with many of the books listed below to reinforce concepts.

    Friendship and Problem Solving Read alouds

    Click on any cover to see details of the story.

    Llama Llama Time To Share by Anna Dewdney
    llama share

    Franklin Plays the Game by Paulette Bourgeois

    franklin plays the game

    The Selfish Crocodile by Faustin Charles and Michael Terry

    Selfish Crocodile

    Rainbow Fish

    Rainbow Fish

    Share and Take Turns (very helpful for students who need more explicit and direct teaching of social skills and how to handle big emotions)Share

    The Monster Who Lost His MeanMonster Lost Mean

    Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by Julia Cook

    Wilma Jean

    Little Monkey Calms Down by Michael DahlLittle Monkey Calms Down

    Stuck

    stuck

    You Are Friendly
    You Are Friendly

    How To Be A Friend – A Book About Friendship

    How To Be a Friend

    Talk and Work It OutTalk and Work It Out

    How To Lost All Your Friends

    How To Lose Friends

    Cool Down and Work Through Anger (very helpful for students who need more explicit and direct teaching of social skills and how to handle big emotions)

    Cool Down Anger

    Friendship RESOURCES for a PEACEFUL CLASSROOM

    You can see the Kindness Classroom Full Year Curriculum below!

    This full year curriculum contains hundreds of hands-on and interactive class lessons for topics such as respect, anger management, self-regulation, making positive choices, conflict resolution and growth mindset. It also includes a complete set of books about social stories – these can be printed in color or simply projected to read as ebooks. The resources include games, journal writing, art activities and more. To save with planning, there are teacher scripts to read aloud to the class so you can be sure to guide the conversation through key topics!

    Click to view the extensive preview with free resources inside!

    Create a peaceful and productive classroom by teaching essential social skills to students in Kindergarten or Grade 1, including self management, conflict resolution, growth mindset and friendship lessons. #SEL #social skills #character education

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    Teaching social skills and character development is essential in kindergarten, grade one and grade two! Lessons on friendship and problem solving are supported with this book list to support social emotional learning ( SEL )

    Teach social skills and character development directly with engaging lessons and free activities. #conflictresolution #kindness #friendship #growthmindset #classroommanagement #charactereducation #socialemotionallearning #SEL #teacherfreebie

    Social Emotional Learning lessons for the entire year, covering topics like emotions, growth mindset, conflict resolution, kindness and friendships, personal responsibility and gratitude!

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