Kindness grows when students have a plan for it. These 24 Kindness Calendars and Kindness Trackers give your 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders a monthly kindness challenge with a clear focus, so they can practice kindness on purpose during World Kindness Day, Random Acts of Kindness Week, Kindness Month, or all year long.
The set also includes a Types of Everyday Kindness article for teachers and a matching anchor chart for students. Those two pieces introduce the six types of everyday kindness: emotional and empathetic kindness, kindness through actions, kindness through words, generosity, community-based and collective kindness, and random acts of kindness.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
- 24 Kindness Calendars and Kindness Trackers
- 12 month-focused kindness calendars
- 12 additional themed trackers to mix and match with the monthly calendars when a monthly theme doesn't fit your class
- Types of Everyday Kindness article and background information for teachers
- Types of Everyday Kindness anchor chart for students
Each kindness challenge tracker has a specific focus, such as Kindness through Words, Kindness in Action, Kindness to the Earth, Kindness through Creativity, or Kindness through Gratitude. Every tracker includes a description of the theme with a few ideas for kind actions, directions for the kindness challenge, and clip art that helps students connect to the theme.
HOW THIS RESOURCE HELPS YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS
- Students practice kindness as a daily habit and see their own acts of kindness add up over the month.
- The six types of kindness give students a broader picture of what kindness looks like in everyday life.
- Classroom teachers, school counselors, and administrators can use the trackers with one class or across a whole school kindness challenge.
- The trackers fit World Kindness Day, Random Acts of Kindness Week, Kindness Month, a character education focus on kindness, or any time of year.
CASEL STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Relationship Skills
- Developing positive relationships
- Seeking or offering support and help when needed
- Standing up for the rights of others
Social Awareness
- Demonstrating empathy and compassion
- Showing concern for the feelings of others
Responsible Decision Making
- Reflecting on one's role to promote personal, family, and community well-being
Self-Management
- Setting personal and collective goals
SAVE WITH AN SEL BUNDLE
These kindness trackers are part of the Kindness Social Emotional Learning Unit with Morning Meeting Slides, which includes 25 days of editable lesson plans, printable student SEL journals, a vocabulary and quotations bulletin board, posters, and teacher and student Google Slides.
This resource is also included in Social Emotional Learning Units & Activities with Morning Meeting Slides Set 1 and in the Social Emotional Learning Units & Activities for Upper Elementary Morning Meeting Mega Bundle, which brings together all 16 SEL Morning Meeting units for a full year of social emotional learning.
Copyright © Tammy Roose, Tarheelstate Teacher.
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