1. Pre- Assessment- After assessing students via the Kahoot game. Students will be broken up into three groups to further their knowledge on the topic of "Being a Good Friend." After a week of diving deeper into the subject the actual unit curriculum will start and students should be fully prepared.
    1. Group 1: The 5 students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly
      1. Explores web games that revolve around friendship
      2. Play the “Yarn Web Game.” • Have students stand in a circle. • One student will hold the end of a ball of yarn, toss the ball of yarn across the circle to another student, and give a compliment to the person who catches the yarn. • Continue until each student is holding yarn and a web has been formed. • Talk about how each person is important and is needed to form the web. • Take a few students away and drop their yarn to show that everyone is needed. • All must be included to work as a team.
      3. Listen to books about friendship on storylineonline.net and summarize and write about what they heard and present it to their peers
    2. Group 2: The 12 students who have some knowledge about the topic as shown in their score, but need to develop higher order thinking skills
      1. Pull a small group do a picture walk and have students come up with questions they want to know about friendship based on the pictures they've seen before reading the book.
      2. Complete worksheets “Wanted: Good Friend, “ and “Good Friends Math Problem” • Brainstorm what makes a good friend. • Use the “Wanted: Good Friend” worksheet and have students make an advertisement.
      3. Listen to books about friendship on storylineonline.net and write about one characteristic they heard that made the character a good friend.
    3. Group 3: The 5 students who appear to have limited knowledge about the topic
      1. Learn and sing the “Friendship Song.”
      2. Pull a small and go over the definition of friendship. Make an anchor chart of characteristics of a good and bad friend
      3. Read a book about friendship • Write the word “FRIEND” on the board and have students brainstorm characteristics of a friend. Write the ideas around the word “FRIEND.”