How Friendship Functions

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 New children, new ideas, new explorations...the first week of September we talked about Olga and the different ways she could look for a friend. Please see Kathryn's Blog for more information about the formative week.

This week the children decided that they want to talk about themselves and their friends. The wind group will have an exploration map where we will record our inquiries and discoveries and we will observe the evolution and the changes at the end of the unit. 

The children received small cut outs of paper people that they decorated. One was of them and the others were of their friends. On a piece of paper, the children drew a picture of what they were doing together with their friends – How Friendship Functions -

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Definition of FUNCTION - "The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or a way of behaving that can be investigated".

Emilie said: “ I jump with my friend. I run with my friend” 

Trystan said: “ Sometimes I fight with my friends”; “ I play pretend games with my friends” ; Simon said: “ I read with my friends” “ I draw with my friends” ; 

Howard said that he “ holds hands with his friends when they walk to the forest” 

Sofia said that she “ reads books with her friends” “ My friend and I eat together” “ We share toys when we play together” “ 

Byron said: “ I like to play soccer with my friend” and “ I like to bike with my friend”

Please share more ideas on what friendship looks like at home so we can compare different things they do at home and at school with their friends. Pictures will be great so we can show them to the whole group and discuss them. 

Thank you, 

Anamaria