In this social skills lesson plan, students will get to practice identifying how to be a friend. Friendship is an important social skill for kindergarten students to master as they begin to form a new community of peers at school.
The first step to helping students develop empathy is teaching them about feelings. In this lesson, students learn what feelings look like by crafting their own emotional faces.
We all want to be good friends. But what does this look like? Help students to understand what it means to be a good friend by reading a story, acting out a skit, and creating a friendship picture.
Everyone has feelings! In this lesson, students explore different feelings by recognizing them on faces. As they look through books, students will find pictures that show a variety of expressions.
Social skills are an essential part of children’s emotional health and well-being. They also play an important role in creating a safe and inviting classroom community. Use this collection of lesson plans to teach children important social skills, such as how to be a good friend, how to recognize how others are feeling, strategies for regulating emotions, the importance of empathy, and more.