Prep Bulletin
Learning intention: We are learning to identify what makes a good friend.
Learning experience overview:
This wellbeing learning experience relates to our Big Idea:
When I experience emotions, I feel and react in ways that affect myself and others around me. In particular, it focusses on our last driving question: How do I manage the way I react?
We do:
As a class we read the story ‘My first friend’ (see below) and discussed the message in the story.
Prompts:
- Can you make a connection to this story?
- What are some ways we can make friends?
- What makes a good friend?
- Is it alright to feel lonely?
- What zone are you in if you feel lonely?
- What are some things you can do when you are feeling lonely?
- What can you do if your friend doesn’t want to play what you want to play?
You do:
- Comfort Creatures
- Students imagined they were alone on a desert island. This might feel scary and lonely. Then they imagined that they had a special comfort creature to keep them company. What would it look like?
- Students created their comfort creature using different materials. They gave their comfort creature a name.
We do:
Share and reflect - Students shared their comfort creature and explained what is special about it.
In this learning experience, students will work towards:
- Identifying feelings and emotions
- Linking feelings to the zone of regulation
- Discussing strategies for dealing with different feelings and emotions
- Identifying strategies to use when feeling lonely and not having anyone to play with
Examples of students work:
What you can do now to continue the learning at home from this experience:
- Encourage conversations at home about what makes a good friend, what did you do today to be a good friend etc.
- Discuss whether a good friend is someone that plays with you all the time
- Read social stories about friendships
- Encourage your child to play with a variety of children
Alyssa, Ruby and Julian
Prep Team
Alyssa.Thermos@education.vic.gov.au