Slide Deck
Little Helpers: My Supportive Friends
Welcome, little helpers! We will learn how friends can support each other today.
Welcome the children. Say: “Today we are going to learn about how to be a supportive friend!” Show excitement and point to the title.
Who Is a Supportive Friend?
A supportive friend is someone who:
• Listens to you
• Helps you when you need it
• Makes you feel cared for
Ask: “Who is a friend?” Encourage short answers. Then say: “A supportive friend helps us feel safe and happy.”
How Do Friends Show Support?
Friends show support by:
• Sharing toys and snacks
• Listening when someone is sad
• Helping pick up toys
• Saying kind words
Use pictures or gestures to illustrate each bullet. Ask for volunteers to act like a listening friend.
Let’s Role Play!
- Pair up with a friend
- Choose a scenario (e.g., sad friend, dropped crayons)
- Act it out: show how you help each other
- Switch roles and try again
Explain the role-play game. Model one scenario: child A pretends to fall, child B helps. Then hand out simple props if available.
Time to Reflect
• What did your friend do to help you?
• How did you help your friend?
• How did it make you feel?
Invite pairs to share what they did. Ask: “How did it feel to be helped? How did you help?” Guide them through brief sharing.
Great Job, Little Helpers!
You learned how to be a supportive friend. Remember: we always help each other in our classroom!
Praise all children: “You were wonderful supportive friends!” Encourage a group cheer or a clap.
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Activity
Little Helpers: My Supportive Friends Lesson Components
1. Slide Deck: My Supportive Friends Slides
Use this colorful slide deck at the start and end of your lesson to introduce supportive friendships, guide discussion, model role-play, and wrap up with reflection. Each slide includes teacher notes, a simple title, brief body text, and engaging prompts.
2. Activity: Supportive Role Play
Objective: Children practice recognizing needs and showing support in real-life scenarios.
Duration: 15 minutes
Group: Pairs
Materials: Scenario cards (see below), optional props (cloth bandage, toy crayons, small ball)
Steps
- Introduce the Game (2 min)
• Hold up a scenario card and read it aloud (e.g., “Your friend drops all their crayons.”)
• Ask: “What could a supportive friend do?” - Model a Role-Play (2 min)
• Teacher volunteers: Child A pretends to drop crayons, Child B shows support (helps pick them up, says kind words). - Pair Up & Distribute Cards (1 min)
• Students form pairs.
• Each pair draws one scenario card. - Act It Out (5 min)
• Pair performs their scenario twice, switching roles the second time.
• Encourage big gestures and kind words. - Share & Reflect (5 min)
• Invite a few pairs to show their role-play to the class.
• Ask reflection questions (below).
Scenario Cards (make 6–8 copies)
- Friend dropped crayons and looks sad.
- Friend fell and scraped their knee.
- Friend is sitting alone at circle time.
- Friend’s block tower fell down.
- Friend lost their favorite toy at playtime.
- Friend can’t reach a toy on the shelf.
Reflection Questions
- “How did it feel to be helped?”
- “What words did you use to help your friend?”
- “How did helping someone make you feel?”
Follow-Up Point: Reinforce that small acts of kindness make everyone happier. Celebrate with a group cheer!
3. Worksheet: My Supportive Friends Worksheet
Children practice identifying supportive actions through drawing and circling.
Materials: Printed worksheet, crayons or markers
Duration: 10 minutes
Worksheet Tasks
- Circle the Supportive Action
• Four small pictures show: sharing a snack, ignoring a friend, helping pick up toys, pushing past someone.
• “Circle the two pictures that show a supportive friend.” - Draw Yourself Helping
• Blank box: “Draw a picture of you helping a friend.” - Color the Happy Friends
• A larger image of two friends hugging—“Color this picture.”
Teacher Tip: Circulate and ask each child to describe their drawing: “Who are you helping? How do you help them?” Reward effort with praise stickers.
Worksheet
My Supportive Friends Worksheet
Name: _________________________ Date: _________________________
- Circle the two pictures that show a supportive friend.
[Picture 1: Sharing a snack] [Picture 2: Ignoring a friend]
[Picture 3: Helping pick up toys] [Picture 4: Pushing past someone]
- Draw a picture of you helping a friend.
- Color the happy friends picture.
[Picture of two friends hugging]