The Friendship Pack empowers educators to create a positive and inclusive classroom environment that fosters emotional resilience, self-expression, and gratitude among students. The lessons, activities, and resources included help students develop essential life skills, such as empathy, mindfulness, and healthy boundaries. In combination, these unit plans help students strengthen friendships and promote social and emotional well-being, enabling students to navigate their emotions and relationships with confidence and positivity.

• Creatures and Big Books:
• Ibex Plush & Ibex Feels Deeply Big Book
• Lynx Plush & Lynx Sets Boundaries Big Book
• Honey Bear Plush & Honey Bear's Gifts of Nature Big Book
  
  
• Digital Unit Plans:
• Emotional Courage with Ibex Unit Plan:
• Lesson 1: Introduction to Ibex and Emotional Courage
• Lesson 2: Learn that sensitivity is a superpower
• Lesson 3: Practicing doing the right thing, even when it's the hard thing
• Lesson 4: Building empathy by supporting others, their feelings, and experiences
• Self-Expression with Lynx Unit Plan:
• Lesson 1: Introduction to Lynx and Self-Expression
• Lesson 2: Learning to trust and listen to one’s own inner voice
• Lesson 3: Expressing one’s own inner voice and using words to advocate for oneself
• Lesson 4: Naming and expressing boundaries and respecting the boundaries of others
• Gratitude with Honey Bear Unit Plan:
• Lesson 1: Introduction to Honey Bear and Gratitude
• Lesson 2: Noticing feelings of gratitude within ourselves
• Lesson 3: Showing and sharing gratitude with the world and others around us
• Lesson 4: Sharing a celebration of gratitude
  

*These unit plans are digital downloads only.