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It’s important to know what healthy friendships look like. It helps us be a good friend and find good friends.
Identify and understand emotions, values, attitudes, motivations, mindsets, and personal attributes.
Create positive relationships and meaningful connections with family members, classmates, and teachers.
Enthusiastic to understand more about themselves, others, and the world around them.
Students will read a poem about friendship and then share the elements of a good friendship. Then, they will reflect and compare those elements to their own friendships.
by Abimbola T. Alabi
You always answer when I call
And help me up if I should fall,
But you never complain at all,
My true friend.
You confront me when I am wrong
But will never scold me for long,
Instead, you try to keep me strong,
My true friend.
You know the funny things to say
To make me laugh my fears away.
Like the sun, you brighten my day,
My true friend.
You see in me gifts I deny
And urge me to give things a try.
You spread for me my wings to fly,
My true friend.
You always perceive what I need
And offer it before I plead.
Just like a book, my mind you read,
My true friend.
You value little things I do
But won’t brag of what you do too.
How can I ever repay you,
My true friend?
And greatest of all I have found
When times are tough and I’m down,
You are the one who sticks around,
My true friend.
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