Friendship Social Emotional Learning Unit with Morning Meeting Slides

Do your students struggle with making friends or understanding how to be a good friend? This Friendship SEL Unit gives you everything you need to build a classroom where students develop essential friendship skills, form healthy relationships, and gain confidence in social interactions.

NOTE: This character education unit is also included in the SEL Morning Meeting Bundle 3 with four additional themes.

Through analyzing social scenarios in suggested read alouds, reflecting and journaling with friendship-focused prompts, and participating in friendship activities, students will learn to recognize the qualities of a good friend, identify healthy vs. unhealthy friendships, and develop the social problem-solving skills needed to build meaningful, positive relationships.

WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS UNIT

• 20 Days of Ready-to-Use Lessons – Print-and-go lesson plans with suggested read-alouds, discussion questions, 19 friendship and healthy relationship activities, extension ideas, and linked online resources.
• Flexible for Any Setting – Works for morning meetings, character education programs, counselor lessons, or sub plans.
• Standards-Aligned SEL – Integrates friendship and healthy relationships directly into ELA skills and common themes in literature, maximizing every minute of your SEL or morning meeting time.
• Printable & Digital – Google Slides for teachers and students included.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR FRIENDSHIP SEL UNIT (Scroll through the preview to see more!)

✨ 20 Days of Printable & Editable Lesson Plans — includes suggested read alouds, discussion questions, friendship activities, extension ideas, and linked online resources

✨ Social Emotional Learning Journals — friendship-related discussion prompts, self-reflection and goal setting exercises, and social emotional learning worksheets to deepen students' understanding of making friends and how to be a good friend, with activities like Healthy vs. Unhealthy Scenario Friendship Sort, Identifying Friendship Red Flags & Green Flags, Social Problem Solving Scenario Cards, Seasons of Friendship, and more!

✨ SEL Bulletin Board Materials that include important vocabulary like friendship, acquaintance, forgiveness, inclusion, and loyalty and inspirational quotations for a visual reminder of your friendship and healthy relationships lessons

✨ SEL Morning Meeting Google Slides — Teacher and student versions to implement this unit digitally or use as visual prompts and discussion starters on your interactive whiteboard

Watch your students grow into kind, supportive friends who build positive, meaningful relationships both in and out of the classroom!

WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "During these teaching moments any time you can address the emotional learning of students in a meaningful way is so important to their academic and intrinsic growth. My students appreciate the variety and look forward to the important ways the slides change and develop their prior thinking about character traits. Look for all of this author's other slides for more great topics!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I enjoy the low prep and flexible nature of this resource. There are lots of different ways that this can be used in the classroom and students are engaged in good conversation and thinking around important topics."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Such a wonderful resource! The books and videos were engaging, great reflection opportunity for students, and great class discussions!"

SAVE WITH A MINI-BUNDLE OR THE MEGA BUNDLE OF ALL TOPICS

SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 1: Perseverance, Kindness, Belonging, Empathy & Compassion, and Conflict Resolution

SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 2: Gratitude, Happiness, Integrity, Goal Setting, & Individuality

SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 3: Courage, Intrinsic Motivation, Responsibility, Friendship & Managing Emotions

If you're looking for a year-long social emotional learning curriculum that is perfect for morning meetings, classroom community building, counselor lessons, or sub plans, click here to save 40% on the all themes bundle of 16 social emotional learning units. Each unit is set up similarly with the same components for easy implementation!

YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZIPPED FILE CONTAINING:

• PDF of guided lesson plans and student activity journal; within this PDF, you'll find a link to two Google Slides:
  • Teacher Presentation Google Slides
  • Student Notebook Google Slides
• PDF of bulletin board materials with vocabulary and quotation posters

Copyright © Tammy Roose, Tarheelstate Teacher.

The purchase of this resource gives the buyer permission to download and copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution is also limited to single classroom use. Copying for other teachers, school-wide use, or school systems is only allowed with the purchase of additional licenses.