Unit 3: Kindness
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Introduction
Kindness is important for everyone's classroom. Having kindness can allow many students to feel more welcome in the classroom they are in most of the week. Students are able to feel free to ask and answer questions.
Objectives
- Participants classroom will be able to show kindness in and outside their classroom.
- Participants classroom will be able to work together to fill the appreciation box.
Lesson
Watch this video with your class and have a discussion about what kindness is.
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Using the Before you Speak template print it out and cut them in the shapes of the heart. If you would like you can also make it into a bulletin board like I have created for the hallway in my school.
Give each student one of the Before you Speak hearts and explain to them how the heart looks perfect. Have them crumple up the heart into a tight ball and then have them try to make it perfect like it was before.
When they are not able to make it perfect again explain to them that before you speak you need to think because if you say something to someone it can really hurt their feelings and ruin your friendships.
Do you have students who struggle to share with a whole group? You can add an Appreciation Box to your classroom.
To make an appreciation box create a box and place it in the back of your room. Place sticky notes or small pieces of paper and a nice pen.
Participants should give directions to their class to explain how to use the Appreciation Box. Explain to them that whenever they feel appreciative and want to share it with the rest of the class they can write it down on the paper and when you have a nice amount of notes in the box the participant will share the notes with the class.
I would recommend to read all of the notes before reading them out loud to your class.
Materials
- File:Before you Speak.pdf
- How Full is Your Bucket? Video
- Materials for participants appreciation box
Assessments
- Participants students will complete the Before you Speak worksheet.
- Participants students will contribute as a class to fill the appreciation box.
- Participants will complete the Unit 3: Kindness Participant Reflection
Are you ready to move on to the final unit, Classroom Community?