Friendship Parent Page

Caregiver’s companion guide to JAM Sessions Friendship Unit.

I Thessalonians 5:11 Encourage one another and build each other up.

Friendship is all about being a better friend. JAM Sessions want to help remind your littles what friendship means. Social Emotional Learning is crucial at this stage in your child’s development so let’s lean into that learning. I recently read on article from Begin Learning about 8 ways to teach kids about friendship. Many of those ideas are implemented in JAM Sessions, including teaching characteristics of a good friend. Our model for friendship comes from Galatians 5:22-23a. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self control.”

Friendship Unit Jesus Session

• Being a Kind Friend
• Being a Peacemaking Friend
• Being a Patient Friend
• Being a Good Friend
• Being a Gentle friend
• Being a Faithful Friend

Books on Friendship and on the Fruit of the Spirit can be found on the Story Graph.

Friendship Unit Art Session

Friendship Unit will introduce different skin tones. The in-class activity will involve mixing paints to create these. ALL skin tones are good skin tones. This is an important lesson that children can learn early. Multicultural inclusivity begins young. It doesn’t mean being “colorblind,” but rather, appreciating the variations of color. This article by Embrace Race is a good place to start learning. Having friends of all colors makes us better people.

Mixing paints to create colors is a fun activity. Here is a fun video on mixing colors.

Friendship Unit Music Session

Our Friendship song is called “Be a Good Friend” and it incorporates modeling the Fruit of the Spirit as a guide to being a good friend.

Friendship Playlist

Here are some fun videos to keep the friendship theme going.