Friendship Passport Booklet
- Grades
- Grades 2–5
- Pages
- 3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Resources, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Social Skills, Special Education Needs (SEN)
- Topic
- Friendship Skills, Sel
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
In this resource, students will create their own Friendship Passport Activity. This is a great activity as students take a journey to understanding how to make and keep friends. There are 2 full pages that you can copy as a 2-sided document. You can then either cut out each page (it will be double-sided with activities) or fold the 2-sided paper like a book. (There are directions on this resource.) There are 8 different pages for students to engage with. Here are the 8 pages of activities:
Front cover with coloring picture and title.
A "Fun Page" for kids to partner with someone and play tic, tac, toe, hangman, create an image from a doodle and the game of boxes.
Friendship Strengths Snapshots-A page with 9 images of polaroid like pictures where members of a small group can all compliment each other on a treasured friendship quality each student possesses.
Friendship Bingo Game-students will need to ask some questions about who also likes their favorite board game, candy, food, drink, animal, recess game, book, show, and color.
Pick 3 or more Acts of Friendship. Students are encouraged to do an act of friendship. Some of the examples are; play with someone new at recess, write a kind note to a friend, offer to help a friend in need, partner with someone new, say kind words to a new friend, and sit by someone new at lunch.
Cactus VS Flower Friendships-students will read a list of healthy versus unhealthy friendship qualities and can write in their own ideas as well.
What do I do now? Fork in the road. Students will learn about how to solve friendship conflicts and small problems. They can even add their own strategies.
Back page is for their name and listing their own friendship qualities on the back.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Identify shared interests with peers through a structured icebreaker activity
- Distinguish between healthy ('flower') and unhealthy ('cactus') friendship behaviours
- Apply a sequence of conflict-resolution strategies, including an 'I' statement, apologizing and compromising, to a peer disagreement
- Reflect on personal friendship strengths using written peer feedback
Teaching tips
- Print pages double-sided and either fold into a booklet or cut them apart, stapling the folded edge for durability, as the directions describe.
- Use as an anchor activity for a small friendship-skills counseling group rather than a whole-class worksheet, since several pages are personal and reflective.
- Discuss the Cactus vs. Flower chart as a class before assigning the conflict-resolution guide so students share vocabulary for the steps.
- Have students pass their booklet to classmates to complete the Friendship Strengths Snapshot rather than filling it out alone.
Skills covered
- Social-emotional learning
- Friendship skills
- Conflict resolution
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Is the passport meant for individual use, or does it need input from other students?
Both — the cover and conflict-resolution pages are completed individually, but the Friendship Bingo card and Strengths Snapshot page ask classmates to write in initials or comments about the student.
Does assembling the booklet require cutting the pages apart, or can it stay as loose sheets?
Either — the directions say to print double-sided, then either cut out and staple the four pages into a booklet or fold them into one.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Social-emotional learning
- Conflict resolution
Topics