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on February 26, 2018 · 3 Comments

Kindness Read Alouds

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 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 kindness read alouds to help me teach and model kindness in my classroom.
 
These are the books I started with…
 "Do Unto Otters"  
 
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 on 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.
 I introduced the compliment
bags
to my students. I passed out compliment
sheets
to each student so they would have enough to write a compliment for everyone in
the class. We also talked about what a meaningful compliment sounds like and
feels like. I also provided compliment
starters
for my kids that might be stumped. My kids wrote 2 compliments each day to
their classmates. You can spread this out however you would like. My kids were
begging me to write more and wouldn’t let a day pass where we didn’t write
compliments. I wouldn’t let my kids open the compliments until the last day, this
is also a choice you can make. I just wanted to make sure that each kid had the same amount when opening.
These
beginning activities inspired me to keep explicitly teaching kindness
through various texts and other activities. I even made my kiddos inspirational bookmarks with words of compassion and kindness quotes from famous people. They love them!
 
My
kids have loved it and so have I. It is absolutely one of the most powerful
things I have done in my room. Next, we will be making our kindness pledges to display for all to see and hopefully inspiring others.
 
I’ve included all of these activities in my Kindness Activities Bundle.
Kindness Activity Bundle
You can also download these kindness FREEBIES!
Kindness Coloring FreebieKindness posters freebie 

 

 

I hope that these kindness read alouds and activities have the same impact on your kiddos and classroom. Kindness starts with you.
  

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  1. Unknown says

    June 19, 2018 at 12:51 am

    I love these kindness read alouds and the compliment bags!

    Reply
  2. Julie Davis says

    June 20, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    Great book suggestions and I love your activities!!! Thanks 🙂

    Reply
  3. Debora Marines says

    June 22, 2018 at 1:07 am

    Thanks so much for the book ideas! These are my main focuses, too! Your post is so important!

    Reply

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