Learning concepts for 5 year olds?

Question

What can children of 5 years old learn about the theme on 'Friends'

Answer 1

There are many ways to teach 5 year olds about friendship.

GROUP ACTIVITIES

1.  Write on the board, "To have good friends, you must be a good friend." Ask the children to explain that statement and to tell you why they either agree or disagree with it. Ask them to think of ways that good friends treat each other. List their answers on the board and discuss each one. Compare their list with the one on the opposite page.

2.  Have the children look for examples of friendship behaviors in magazines or make pictures of them (see our list in "How to Be a Good Friend" at the top of this column). Then have them use the pictures to create a classroom collage. They could also contribute slogans or mottos about friendships.

3.  Divide the class into groups of four or five. Each group's task is to choose one group member to play the role of a new kid in class. The new kid's challenge is to try to gain acceptance into the group. After the role-plays, discuss with the class how it felt to be the new kid and how it felt to be part of the "in-group." Discuss some of the different ways of "breaking in" to a new group.

4.  Ask the children to think about how a movie or TV show dealt with friendship. Ask what someone in the show did that made him or her a good friend or a bad friend.

5.  Brainstorm ways kids can be more tolerant and accepting of each other. Write them on the board. Then have the children work in small groups to create posters about accepting others. Display the posters in the classroom hallway.

Also, 5 year olds are old enough to understand the Lyrics.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way

(clap clap clap clap)

Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.

It's like you're always stuck in second gear

When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year

But

I'll be there for you (when the rain starts to pour)

I'll be there for you (like I've been there before)

I'll be there for you (because you're there for me too)

-------That's the end of what they play on the show, the rest of the song as originally recorded continues------

You're still in bed at ten, but work began at eight

You burned your breakfast, so far things are going great

Your mother warned you there'd be days like these

But she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees

That

I'll be there for you (when the rain starts to pour)

I'll be there for you (like I've been there before)

I'll be there for you (because you're there for me too)

No one could ever know me

No one could ever see me

Seems you're the only one who knows what it's like to be me

Someone to face the day with

Make it through all the rest with

Someone I'll always laugh with

Even in my worst, I'm best with you, yeah

It's like you're always stuck in second gear

When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year

But

I'll be there for you (when the rain starts to pour)

I'll be there for you (like I've been there before)

I'll be there for you (because you're there for me too)

Teach them that friends are there to socialize and support you, and that in order to have a friend, you have to be a friend.

Answer 2

Each child draws their own picture - place all the pictures on the floor and tell the children to write something nice under the picture.  One person one picture  -teacher learns something too - you soon know who has friends and who don't

Answer 3

You could ask them to say something nice about the people around them-one good trait i.e. funny, kind, caring

Answer 4

Nothing, the "Show" is aimed at 5 th graders, and loser adults who think they are one of the cast on "Friends".