Hey there,
I don't know about you but I have always had one main rule in my classroom and it is to be kind to others. Even more so now do I want to make sure my students understand not only to be kind, but why and how we can be kind to others. We have a decent social skills curriculum in our district, but I wanted to be even more intentional with the teaching of kindness and compassion. So I did some digging and found a few great books that spoke to kindness and what it means to be kind.
These are the books I started with...
After
reading “What does it Mean to Be Kind?” We brainstormed what types of things we could do to show kindness. As well as what it doesn't mean.
Later, I did another mini-lesson on each of the
3 focuses of compliments, empathy
and gestures.
My kids did so great with the activities I created and the discussion was so great I decided to take it further in action based kindness.



If you want to check out the activities I did you can visit my store by clicking the images below. There is also a kindness FREEBIE!
FREEBIE
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hope that it has the same impact on your kiddos and classroom.
Kindness starts with you.
