How Can I Make A Friend?
If only this student learns how to make a friend this academic year, it will be a success.
Just before we were starting our reading time today, a new Japanese-American student who started today came up to me and said, "Mr. Hammerlund, how can I make a friend?"
I told him that was a great question but we were doing reading now. "For now," I said, "could you read with this boy? His name is Jonny."
Jonny is also a Japanese-American boy who started this year.
I saw Jonny sitting by himself so I asked the new boy to go read with him.
A few minutes later the new boy again came to me and asked again how to make a friend. I told him that I wanted to talk to the whole class about how to make a friend and we would do that after recess.
A while later he came back up to me and said, "Mr. Hammerlund, I think I know how the make a friend."
I thought he might.
When the time came, I talked to the whole class about how to make a friend. For first and second graders, they have it. Now they just need to practice it.
Maybe everything they did need to know they learned in kindergarten.
Just before we were starting our reading time today, a new Japanese-American student who started today came up to me and said, "Mr. Hammerlund, how can I make a friend?"
Jonny is also a Japanese-American boy who started this year.
I saw Jonny sitting by himself so I asked the new boy to go read with him.
A few minutes later the new boy again came to me and asked again how to make a friend. I told him that I wanted to talk to the whole class about how to make a friend and we would do that after recess.
A while later he came back up to me and said, "Mr. Hammerlund, I think I know how the make a friend."
I thought he might.
When the time came, I talked to the whole class about how to make a friend. For first and second graders, they have it. Now they just need to practice it.
Maybe everything they did need to know they learned in kindergarten.
