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Children will identify and analyze ways to be kind.

Social and Life Skills Focus: social awareness, relationship skills

  1. Watch a Video:

    Choose to Be Kind

     

  2. Read the Issue:

    The Kindness Challenge

     

  3. Play a Game:

    Kindness Find-It

    Skill: apply knowledge

     

  4. Complete Skill Sheets

    Show What You Know

    Skill: comprehension

    Connect the Friends

    Skill: fine motor

     

    K Is for Kind

    Skill: alphabet knowledge

     

  5. Lesson Boosters

  • Paired Text: 

    Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller

     

  • Bonus Skill Sheet:

    Find a Friend Tic-Tac-Toe

     

  • Scavenger Hunt: kind

     

  • Hands-on Activity:

    Spreading Smiles Game

     

CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RI.K.1 key details, RI.K.4 vocabulary, RF.K.3.A letters and sounds, RL.K.1 key details (literature), SL.K.1 collaborative conversations

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

Paired Text: Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller

  • When Tanisha spills grape juice on her new dress, a classmate wants to be kind. But what does that really mean?
  • This story provides children with practical ideas for small, easy ways to show kindness.

Bonus Skill Sheet: Find a Friend Tic-Tac-Toe

  • Use our bonus Find a Friend Tic-Tac- Toe skill sheet to help kids get to know each other and make friends.
  • When kids find someone who matches a description, they can circle that picture. Challenge them to get three in a row!

Scavenger Hunt: kind

  • Together, find and circle the word kind each time it appears in the issue.

Hands-on Activity: Spreading Smiles Game

Skill: collaborative games

Materials: tennis ball, marker, music player

  • Part of being kind is making other people smile! Spread smiles with this simple game.
  • In advance, draw a smiley face on a tennis ball. Seat children in a circle and have kids pass the ball around while you play some lively music. When the music stops, the child holding the ball has to try to make the person sitting to their right smile!
  • Children can try to spread smiles any way they like. They might give a compliment, tell a joke, wave and say hello, or make a silly face. Continue until all children have had a turn.