Friendship salad kindergarten

Teaching is fun...Let's face it, if it wasn't fun I think we would all do something else. I am linking up today with Sally from Elementary...

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure. I am super busy getting ready for my trip to New York for the Sandra by Sandra Lee launch party and I’m prepping my son’s 3rd birthday party, so I’m taking an easy out today. LOL! My seven year, Kaylynn, is in her 3rd year …

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What you will need: a snack for every friend and some bowls. Friends love to eat together, so have every friend present bring their favorite snack. Mix them together and enjoy your friendship salad and talk about how God gave us good friends!

We like to cook! Okay, this wasn't really cooking, but the children were very involved in making our Friendship Fruit Salad. You can tell just by looking at the delicious ingredients, this is good food! I asked each family to provide one piece of fruit for the salad, and we had a lovely variety show up. Last year I had a helper on fruit salad day, and was able to have the children wash, peel, cut and totally prepare their piece of fruit. This year I did a lot of the prep work during nap…

{Book Looks}: The Fruit Salad Friend

As a former Kindergarten teacher I have always enjoyed doing the Friendship Fruit Salad activity- you know the one where your students bring in different kinds of fruit and you talk about how the different fruits represent the different children in the classroom. It's a great community building activity that shows that everyone is special and different but we can all make something amazing when you put us together. Then, you bring in a very old, mushy banana. You start to put it in the fruit…

Celebrate Thanksgiving in preschool or kindergarten with a friendship feast where you make friendship fruit salad while exploring unity.

Friendship salad

I have been a long time fan of Maria Dismondy's books. They're wonderful for character building lessons. Maria recently published a new book titled The Fruit Salad Friend. In this story, a little girl named Chloe faces some challenges with friendship. She learns and uses different strategies to to help herself feel better and find friends that lift her up. She learns the recipe for friendship. Super cute! ...and if your classroom is anything like mine, then everybody could use a little…

Good morning my dears!!! Is everyone enjoying their break as much as I am? I just LOVE relaxing! I cannot wait to hear how your Black Friday shopping went, or should I say Black Thursday. What is up with that anyway? Stores opening for Black Friday at 6:00 pm on Thanksgiving?!? That's crazy. And it ruins the fun for me. Sigh. What is this country coming to? Of course I still went though, so they win in the end :) I go to Target each year and buy a bunch of crap that I don't need. The hype…

Preschool and Pre-K Friendship Activity: This activity is inspired by the book Strictly No Elephants. This activity is part of a pack of 8 activities to go along with the book. Use them at home with your kids or in the classroom with students. Includes printable activities for literacy (rhyming), math (numbers and counting), fine motor (cutting) & gross motor. Also includes a Kindness Craft, a Friendship Recipe, & a journal writing page. Kids of all ages (even toddlers) will have fun with…

Kindergarten blog for teachers in the classroom. Ideas for homeschooling as well. Free files to your with your students.

First week of school = finished! It was only 3 1/2 days, but I have a GREAT group of kiddos and I'm so psyched to be working with them this...

Teach preschool, kindergarten or first grade children about unity at Thanksgiving and create this friendship circle as a symbol of their connection to each other. This Thanksgiving resource Includes ideas and activities that include: making a cooperative friendship fruit salad, creating "I am thankful" placemats, completing a printable book, and decorating the classroom with a handprint unity wreath.

Paula's Preschool and Kindergarten is a blog about learning and teaching with young children.

Encourage the class to make new friends and help them celebrate their friendships with the crafts listed below. These crafts are preschool-friendly, and children can play with them with their friends or give them as keepsakes.

One of my favorite ways to build classroom community the first week of school is with this Friendship Fruit Salad Activity. This back to school activity is fun and engaging, and it helps students understand how a great classroom functions! These Friendship Salad printables go great with the book "The Fruit Salad Friend" by Maria Dismondy.

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