Good Friends

   As part of our unit on friends and our study of main idea and details (see previous post) we read the book How to Lose All Your Friends.  While the students loved the book, they were appalled by the girl's behavior.  We decided to do a rewrite! 
   Together the students put together the main ideas of how to be a good friend.  They came up with six ideas:

1. Smile.

2. Be kind and caring.

3. Be helpful.

4. Use good manners.

5. Be a good sport.
6. Share.

    Next, the students got into small groups.  Each group took one of the main ideas from our list.  They used our guided reading books about friends to come up with two details (examples) of each good friend trait.  They had amazing discussions.
    Later in the day, our buddies came.  With our buddies, each group developed a skit and made a video example of their details.  Here is just one example of their work....more to come!