Just Plain Bill
Catch kindness
A program to help personalize an emphasis on kindness...
After completing an in-class activity on the subject of kindness, and viewing a video on the topic, I felt there was an opportunity to help bring our focus on kindness directly to my students’ daily lives.
First, we each traced a hand with sections to be colored, and then we cut it out.
Next, as students observed, identified, and felt kindness, they shared their experiences with the class, and stapled their “hand” under the “Catch Kindness” (CK) sign on our back wall.
Time required: up to five minutes a day.
Materials required: paper, marker, scissors, colored markers or crayons, stapler...
Early examples that led to sharing a hand: opening the door for someone, helping a student pick up books that were dropped, pushing a grocery cart in the market for a mom with two kids, a student reminding the class of an assignment we’d forgotten to include in our planners, sharing pencils/paper with a classmate who ran out, helping a student who had fallen off his scooter after school...
Have you caught kindness lately?
No comments:
Post a Comment