Building relationships

Children work in pairs to make, implement, and reflect on partner play plans for lunch recess.

Each child has been paired up with a ‘daily partner’ who changes each day. The daily partner strategy involved creating ‘daily partner plans’ that provided an opportunity to get to know classmates they did not typically choose to work or play with.

A toddler comforted an adult who cut her finger preparing classroom snacks.

The child is not yet verbal enough to be heard loud and clear with his words but he pushed a chair from the play dough table over to the counter where the adult was, and pointed at the chair for her to sit down. He kept tapping the chair until she sat, then he put his hand on her shoulder and patted it.