Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4
Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4

Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling | Friendship Skills, Gossip & Exclusion | Grades 2–4

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Friendship drama is REAL in elementary school! From feeling left out at recess to gossip, shifting friendships, and hurt feelings, navigating friendships can be tricky for young students.

This 6-session Friendship Drama Small Group Counseling Curriculum gives school counselors everything they need to help students in grades 2–4 navigate friendship challenges, build healthy relationships, and handle peer conflict with confidence.

Featuring The Friendship Flock, seven adorable bird characters who experience friendship ups and downs just like real kids, this engaging small group uses relatable stories, interactive games, role-play scenarios, colorful posters, and meaningful activities to teach friendship skills students can actually use!

Perfect for elementary school counselors looking for a ready-to-use, low-prep friendship small group that goes beyond basic friendship skills to address the real social challenges students face.

WHAT STUDENTS WILL LEARN

Students will practice how to:

  • Handle feeling left out or excluded

  • Recognize the difference between conflict, mean moments, and bullying

  • Join groups and include others

  • Recognize gossip and rumors and stop them from spreading

  • Cope when friendships change or friends make new friends

  • Manage jealousy, hurt feelings, and friendship worries

  • Use helpful thoughts when friendships feel difficult

  • Speak up using calm, respectful I-messages

  • Be an upstander when someone is treated unkindly

  • Apologize, repair friendships, and make better choices

SIX READY-TO-USE SMALL GROUP SESSIONS

Session 1: Welcome to the Flock

Students meet the Friendship Flock, establish group expectations, and become Drama Detectives as they learn to distinguish conflict, mean moments, and bullying. Includes a Friendship Recipe activity!

Session 2: Left Out

Students explore the feelings that come with exclusion and practice strategies for joining groups, coping with rejection, and becoming an includer. Includes an interactive inclusion activity, scenario cards, and a Left Out → Let In worksheet.

Session 3: Feathers in the Wind

Through a memorable bird story, whisper-chain activity, and colorful feather sorting cards, students discover how gossip spreads and why words matter. They learn the True? Kind? Mine to Share? check and practice stopping rumors.

Session 4: Flocks Change

Friendships change, and that's okay! Students explore shifting friendships, jealousy, and making new connections. Includes Friendship Fact or Myth cards, helpful-thinking strategies, and a My Friendship Flock activity.

Session 5: Find Your Voice

Students learn how to communicate their feelings, stand up for others, and repair friendship mistakes. Includes I-message practice, upstander strategies, role-play cards, and the four-step Friendship Repair Kit.

Session 6: Fly Together

Students celebrate their growth with a Friendship Flight Path review game, kindness feathers, a friendship web activity, and Friendship Flock certificates.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

This 69-page PDF resource includes:

  • 6 detailed, step-by-step small group lesson plans

  • Small group unit outline with objectives and ASCA alignment

  • Counselor implementation notes

  • Suggested companion picture books

  • Parent/guardian permission letters

  • Small group reminder slips

  • Pre- and post-group assessments

  • Data tracking sheet

  • Group expectations poster

  • Feelings check-in poster featuring the Friendship Flock

  • Meet the Friendship Flock character poster

  • Colorful teaching posters for each session

  • Drama Detective sorting cards

  • Friendship Recipe activity

  • Inclusion and exclusion scenario cards

  • Gossip or Sharing feather sorting cards

  • Friendship Fact or Myth cards

  • I-message and friendship repair activities

  • Role-play scenario cards

  • Friendship Flight Path board game and question cards

  • My Flock Journal with session reflections

  • Family take-home notes

  • Kindness feathers

  • Friendship Flock certificates

  • Bookmarks

  • Bonus coloring page

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