Learning About Friendship

Quick Answer

Learning About Friendship is a preschool social-emotional resource designed to help children understand what friendship looks like and practice the skills that help friendships begin and grow. Each friendship skill includes a child-facing visual page and a teacher-facing prompt page with simple language, real preschool examples, words children can try, teacher guidance, and discussion questions.

Description

Learning About Friendship is part of the Preschool Vibes Learning About series. This series is designed to introduce important early learning concepts through clear visuals, teacher-friendly language, and quick discussion prompts that can be used during large group, small group, morning meeting, classroom routines, or review.

This resource helps children learn how to connect with others, communicate during play, show kindness, notice how friends are feeling, and build positive relationships. Each friendship skill is introduced in a simple, child-friendly way so students can understand what the skill means and begin practicing it in real preschool situations.

Use Learning About Friendship at the beginning of the school year as children are getting to know one another, or revisit the cards throughout the year as new friendship situations come up during play, centers, group time, and classroom routines.

What’s Inside

This resource begins with an introduction to friendship, followed by cards that teach: Say Hello, Ask to Play, Invite Someone to Play, Learn About Your Friend, Listen to Your Friend, Help a Friend, Give a Compliment, Cheer for a Friend, Notice How Your Friend Feels, Share Your Ideas, Friends Can Like Different Things, Share With a Friend, Show Kindness, Be a Good Sport, and Say Thank You.

Each friendship skill includes two teaching pages:

Child-Facing Page

Each child-facing page includes:

• Friendship skill

• Large visual

• Simple sentence children can understand and remember

Teacher-Facing Page

Each teacher-facing page includes:

• Teacher Language

• What It Looks Like

• Words to Try

• Teacher Tip

• Ask

How to Use

Use these cards during large group, small group, morning meeting, social-emotional lessons, classroom routines, or anytime you are introducing and reinforcing friendship skills.

Show the child-facing page first so children can see the friendship skill, look at the visual, and hear a simple sentence connected to the skill.

Then use the teacher-facing page to explain the skill, model useful words and actions, give real preschool examples, and guide a short discussion.

You can use one card at a time for focused instruction, revisit cards when friendship situations come up, or keep the pages near your large group area, calm-down space, social-emotional materials, or classroom community display for quick review.

Pages can be displayed together or printed back to back for easy teacher-led instruction.

Why It Works

Learning About Friendship helps children understand friendship skills before they are expected to use them independently in social situations.

Instead of only reminding children after a problem happens, this resource gives you a clear way to teach what friendship can look like, what children can say, and how they can respond to others with kindness and care.

This resource helps:

• Build friendship and social language

• Help children learn how to begin and grow friendships

• Provide simple words children can use during real social situations

• Support listening, communication, empathy, kindness, and cooperative play

• Help children understand that friends can enjoy different things

• Connect friendship skills to familiar preschool situations

• Give teachers practical language and prompts without a scripted lesson

Perfect For

• Preschool

• Pre-K

• Kindergarten readiness

• Friendship lessons

• Social-emotional learning

• Beginning-of-the-year routines

• Morning meeting

• Large and small group instruction

• Classroom community

• Cooperative play

• Kindness lessons

• Conflict prevention

• Social language practice

• Homeschool preschool

Preschool Vibes Standards

2D. We can play with others by taking turns and sharing space.

2E. We can build relationships through cooperative play (roles, teamwork, group goals).

2F. We can notice others’ feelings and respond with care.

3B. We can take turns in conversations and stay on topic with support.

3G. We can use language during play to negotiate roles, solve problems, and collaborate.

Digital Download & Terms of Use

This is a digital download only. No physical product will be delivered.

This resource is for personal and single-classroom use only. You may not resell, redistribute, share, upload, or claim this file as your own.

Due to the digital nature of this product, all sales are final.