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Resources to support a primary school Friendship Day
Updated on 2010-12-07
Created on 2010-12-07
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Teaching Guide: Being Friends (for grades K-5) - Page from the teaching guide for the video "Being Friends"
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Teaching Guide: Friendship (for grades 5-9) - This material is from the teaching guide for the video "Friendship" in the 12-part DVD series "Big Changes, Big Choices"
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List of links re Friendship from the A-to-Z Teacher Stuff website
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List of songs you can click to listen to (and/or order). Categories include: Songs that Celebrate Friendship; Friendship Songs for Teaching Empathy, Kindness, and Interpersonal Skills; and Musical Plays that Teach Social Skills/Character Education.
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Downloadable teaching resources for all kinds of pastoral concerns/lessons, including friendship
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Links to lessons, units, worksheets, clipart, images, and other resources -- all about friendship
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Aristotle provides us with one of the great discussions of friendship. He distinguishes between what he believes to be genuine friendships and two other forms: one based on mutual usefulness, the other on pleasure. These two forms only last for as long as there is utility and pleasure involved, whereas genuine friendship does not dissolve.
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Suzanne Stern-Gillet suggests that friendships of utility and pleasure can be seen as processes, whereas friendships of virtue are activities. Such activities are central to living the good life. It is only friendship based on virtue that allows a relationship between whole persons.
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An interesting question to consider... And how does the number of friends affect your happiness and your wealth?
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It's widely accepted that friendships are invaluable to the soul but few of us were aware that they could also boost the bank account.
A study of 10,000 US students over a period of 35 years suggests the wealthiest people are those that had the most friends at school. Each extra schoolfriend added 2% to the salary.
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The average number is about 150, says leading anthropologist Robin Dunbar.
It may sound like a lot, but think of your Christmas card list - 50 cards to 50 couples = 100 friends.
"It's the number of people that you know as persons and you know how they fit into your social world and they know how you fit into theirs. They are a group of people to which you have an obligation of friendship."
They usually consist of an inner circle of five "core" people and an additional layer of 10, he says. That makes 15 people - some will probably be family members - who are your central group and then outside that, there's another 35 in the next circle and another 100 on the outside. And that's one person's social world.
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