Read The Rainbow Fish. Discuss with students the meanings of friendship and how they will make many friends this year in school. I do this at the beginning of the year with the kindergarten students.

Materials:

• The Rainbow Fish book
• Strips of construction paper in various colors cut into 12x3 strips.
• Crayons
• Stapler

Plan:

1. I read the story to students and we discuss friendship and what it takes to be a friend.
2. I tell students that we will be making a friendship chain (many do not know what that is, so they are quite impressed as it takes shape)
3. Each student gets a strip of colored construction paper to color and put his/her name on.
4. As they finish, I begin to make the chain by stapling each strip of paper into a circle shape and linking them together as I staple.
5. All kindergarten classes in the school add to the chain and it is displayed in the library throughout the year.

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