Sharing and Taking Turns

This week we have been talking a lot about friendship and what it means to be a good friend. Early in the week we read the story, "The Rainbow Fish" and saw that sharing can fill our friend's buckets and ours too! The "Rainbow Fish" is a beautiful story about sharing, and we discussed about how sharing can be a really nice thing for friends to do for each other. We also talked about how sharing is when you give something to someone  and you don't always get it back; however, taking turns is when you give a toy to someone and then they play with it but then in a few minutes the other person gets a turn as well. We practiced building using the vocabulary, "My turn, now your turn" as we built a tower brick by brick. We also gave them painting partners who they partner painted with throughout the week. We continually empathize that it is important to show all our classmates friendly behavior and now we are learning so many tools to know what friendly behavior can be!