Develop students’ kindness skills beyond random acts of kindness with this social emotional unit focused on learning the benefits of showing KINDNESS to others. Whether you use this unit during morning meeting, kindness week, or another social emotional learning time, the lessons, discussions, and student journal will engage your students in social emotional development, character education and community building. You'll experience proud teaching moments as your students demonstrate more kindness and understanding to their fellow classmates and school community!
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WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR KINDNESS SEL MORNING MEETING THEME SET:
✨ TEACHER SUPPORT
➥ a teacher overview of the KINDNESS theme with suggested read alouds, discussion questions, activities and extension ideas, and linked online resources
➥ 15 days of printable and editable lesson plans
💜 You'll have more than you need to address kindness. Pick and choose from the ideas and lessons offered to customize a unit that specifically meets your students needs, or grab the 15 days of lesson plans and print and go!
💜 Some of the suggested picture book read alouds for this unit include: Each Kindness, Have You Filled A Bucket Today?, Thank You, Omu, and One Smile.
✨ KINDNESS BULLETIN BOARD WITH QUOTES AND KEY VOCABULARY
➥ 5 Kindness-related quotations
➥ important vocabulary with definitions: kindness and conscious
➥ decorative quotation posters
💜 The bulletin board helps anchor important learning and growth. Displaying key vocabulary creates an established language for your unit and related quotations inspire everyone to internalize the importance of kindness. If you implement many theme units, your *growing* bulletin board becomes a display of students' learning as you add new themes!
✨ STUDENT JOURNALS
➥ cover pages with quotations and important vocabulary
➥ kindness-related discussion prompts
➥ usually, sometimes, rarely self-reflection and goal setting
➥ ABC's of kindness and kind deeds acrostic exercise
➥ template for analyzing the kindness boomerang phenomena
➥ "challenges of being kind" graphic organizer
➥ 5 quotation analysis journal prompts
➥ kindness stories compare and contrast chart
💜Student journals allow students time to process big thoughts and ideas before beginning a discussion. Student journal pages become a record of their learning that can be referenced in the future!
✨ DIGITAL COMPONENTS
➥ Kindness Activities SEL/Morning Meeting Teacher Slides (Google Slides)
➥ Kindness Activities SEL/Morning Meeting Notebook for Students (Google Slides)
➥ Editable Lesson Plans
💜Implement this unit digitally or use the teacher slides to display your lessons + capture student responses to discussions.
With these KINDNESS SEL Morning Meeting Activities, you are able to incorporate social emotional development and classroom community building while targeting common themes in literature and your grade level's ELA standards. Students who experience theme-based morning meetings develop a strong understanding of themes in literature because this and other ELA skills are integrated into the morning meeting routine!
Ignite your students’ interests and growth with discussions and experiences specifically designed to strengthen their social emotional development and kindness skills!
You won't be disappointed in the time you spend with these upper elementary social emotional/morning meeting lessons!
➥ Learn more about my Framework for Theme-Based Morning Meetings and if you have any questions, please reach out at tarheelstateteacher@gmail.com or use the Q/A here!
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