“There Are Many Ways to Say I Love You” (Song)
From Mister Rogers' Neighborhood · 1991
1 minPre-KK1st2ndSocial-Emotional Learning
Summary
Under a minute. Mister Rogers sings “There Are Many Ways to Say I Love You” with a new verse — the point being that care shows up in cleaning up, baking, singing and sitting with someone, not only in the words.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
A very short song about the many forms caring takes.
- What ways does the song name for saying “I love you”?
- How does someone at home show they care about you?
- What is a way to show care at school?
- Can you show care to someone you don't know well? How?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: care, kindness, show, notice.
Try it: Draw two ways someone shows they care about you.
Try it: Do one quiet kind thing today and write down what happened.