Wanted: Best Friend

At the beginning of the unit Oga, the Hobbit, asked the children how she could get a friend. Today she came and asked again to check for growth in the children's understanding....

Oga the Hobbit

The children made two lists to help Oga understand:
If you want to be a friend...

• be caring (Pauline)
• no punching (Julia & Lysander)
• take care (Orin)
• no pushing (Alfie)
• no kicking (Rocco)
• play princess (Tai)

Adding our ideas to the list

If you don't want to be a friend...

• don't care (Rocco)
• be away (Pauline)
• don't play (Esme)
• don't play at the park (Sofia)

The children added other ideas to the "don't list but after some thought and discussion they came to the conclusion that even if you don't want to be someones friend you still should never

• kick
• bite
• push
• trip
• punch

After reading the story "Wanted: Best Friend" the children helped to create a board game that helped a boy reach the end of the path to find his best friend. On the squares were the children's ideas of what we need to do to be a friend (move one space forward) and what doesn't help us be a friend (move one space back)