Kindness Character Education | Social Emotional Learning SEL | Morning Meeting
Build a positive culture in your classroom and empower students to be their best selves! This kindness resource equips you with an entire toolbox of materials to help your students develop and practice positive character traits.
$9.00
Product Description
Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Kindness Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of kindness activities, printables, lesson plans, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, anchor charts, and so much more to give your students intentional practice with kindness in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop kindness skills and positive character traits.
You’ll Love:
- A variety of resources to explicitly model and practice kindness with students
- Giving your students an opportunity to build their classroom community
- Bolstering your SEL curriculum and making character education a priority
What You Get in this Kindness Character Education Unit:
A Full Month of SEL/Character Education Curriculum
Kindness Pacing Guide
- Organize your entire month of kindness.
- Plan to set aside the necessary time to complete the curriculum with your students
Kindness Parent Letter
- Get family members involved so they can reinforce the character education trait at home.
- Provide parents with tools to help them explain, model, and praise kindness at home.
- Includes a list of books and movies that families can enjoy together.
Kindness Read Alouds
- Choose kindness read aloud texts that teach different aspects of kindness.
- Each book makes for a great discussion!
Kindness Bulletin Boards
- Introduce kindness to your students with a beautiful bulletin board display.
- Keep this display in your classroom for the entire month that you are teaching kindness.
- Everything you need to create the display is here—including completed examples!
Kindness Anchor Charts
- Create a visual reference for your students—keep learning accessible!
- Students can refer back to this anchor chart as they respond to questions, work independently, and contribute to discussions during your SEL or Character Education lessons.
- A printable version of the anchor chart is also included.
Kindness Posters
- Provide students with a visual definition of kindness in your room with 6 poster options.
Editable Acts of Kindness Calendar
- Use this calendar to challenge your students to do something kind each day.
- It is editable so you can change the month or the acts of kindness.
- TIP: Edit this resource to make multiple versions of the calendar – students perform different kind acts from their classmates each day!
Doodle Reflection Page
- Give students the chance to get creative with ideas about what kindness is.
- Includes reflection questions, examples of kindness, fun kindness quotes, and doodles.
Kindness in the News Activity
- Students will use a news article to learn about the impact of kindness in their community.
- Specific directions, research tips, planning pages, and multiple templates are included.
Capturing Kindness Activity
- Students will create a social media feed with acts of kindness they have seen, experienced, or done for others.
- Options for drawing pictures, writing about it, or both drawing and writing included.
3-D Kindness Crafts
- Students respond to prompts and use their completed responses to build a 3-D heart or 3-D hot air balloon.
- Crafts can be made with three to seven prompts.
- You can pick and print the pages that you would like your students to complete.
Quote of the Week
- Each week, discuss a new quote about kindness with your students.
- Quote of the week includes five different quotes about kindness.
- Activity page with three reflection questions is included for each quote.
- Each quote is available in a speech bubble that you can print and hang.
Kindness Scenarios/Social Stories
- Let students place themselves in new situations and think about ways to be kind.
- Use these scenarios to inspire meaningful conversations in your classroom.
- Display the scenarios on your bulletin board for a class discussion or print the scenarios for students to work in groups or independently.
Kindness Reader’s Theatre
- Readers theater will help with fluency, comprehension, and speaking and while studying character education.
- There are three scripts for students to read and perform.
Writing Prompts + Publishing Pages
- Includes five writing prompts for students to reflect and write about kindness.
- Students write about a time they were kind, a time someone was kind to them, different ways to show kindness, a short story about kindness, and responding to a situation with kindness.
- Bulletin board, writing paper, and clipart to turn this into a display is included.
Digital Option for Use With Google
- Option to go 100% paperless with this resource
These Kindness Character Education Unit activities are perfect for:
- Morning Meetings
- Counselor Lessons
- Whole-Class Discussions
- Service Learning Projects
- Conflict Resolution Discussions
- Small Groups
- Independent Work
- Early Finishers
- Morning Work
- Sub Plans, and so much more!
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⭐️ Why Teachers Like You LOVE This Resource: ⭐️
“I LOVE THIS! This is the perfect addition to my SEL curriculum. There are so many different options and resources. I couldn’t ask for more!”, – Live in Grade Five.
“This resource is amazing! I can’t wait to use it with my third graders. I will definitely be on the lookout for the rest of the curriculum. I am such a fan of your work! ” -Meagan J.
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