Bruna

By Anne Cottringer

Grade: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Discuss

• What is the first thing we learn about Bruna?  How is she different from everyone else?
• Does her situation change from one season to the next?  How do you know?
• Does she like her current condition?  What does she do to try to change how she feels?  Did any of her attempts work?
• One winter morning, everything changed.  What did she hear and see out of her window?  How did she react?  Was she scared or courageous?
• After pulling Ursa our of the water, how else did she help her new friend?
• How did this new friendship end up helping Bruna?
• How do you feel when you are loved by someone?  How do you feel when you show love to someone?  
• When you are lonely, what does your day feel like?  Do you prefer to be with people?  Do your friends bring light and warmth to your day?

Activities 

• Have the student write about one of their friends and have them follow up with a drawing to demonstrate what they wrote about.  For the younger student,  have them fill in the blanks with something like this:   _____________ is my friend.  We love to_____________________ together.  What I love most about my friend________________.  
• Have them in fill the blank to these two statements: 
•  I like a friend who_______________. 
• I can be a friend by__________________.

• Another option would be to get this unit pack (or do something similar).  I love the friend"ship" activity.
• Friendship art piece.   
• Here is a Kind Hearts discussion activity.  It demonstrates how the hearts of friends can be broken and then encourages the child to use words/actions to put the heart back together again.
• Check out this PDF for activities and further discussion questions on the topic of courage.  Explore how being courageous can change the world we live in just as it changed the lives of Ursa and Bruna.