Do your students struggle to show kindness and empathy toward others in challenging moments? This Kindness SEL Unit gives you everything you need to build a classroom where kindness thrives — perfect for World Kindness Day, Kindness Week, February, or anytime you want to focus on character education and classroom community building.
NOTE: This character education unit is also included in the SEL Morning Meeting Bundle 1 with four additional themes.
Through analyzing social scenarios in suggested read alouds, reflecting and journaling with kindness-focused prompts, and participating in kindness activities, students will learn to understand and practice empathy and develop the compassion and awareness needed to uplift their classmates and school community.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS UNIT
- 25 Days of Ready-to-Use Lessons – Print-and-go lesson plans with suggested read-alouds, discussion questions, 19 kindness activities, extension ideas, and linked online resources.
- Flexible for Any Setting – Works for morning meetings, character education programs, counselor lessons, or sub plans.
- Standards-Aligned SEL – Integrates kindness and empathy directly into ELA skills and common themes in literature, maximizing every minute of your SEL or morning meeting time.
- Printable & Digital – Google Slides for teachers and students included.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR KINDNESS SEL UNIT (Scroll through the preview to see more!)
✨ 25 Days of Printable & Editable Lesson Plans — includes suggested read alouds, discussion questions, kindness activities, extension ideas, and linked online resources
✨ Social Emotional Learning Journals — kindness-related discussion prompts, self-reflection and goal setting exercises, and social emotional learning worksheets to deepen students' understanding of kindness and empathy, with activities like Monthly Kindness Calendars & Kindness Trackers, Brainstorming & Graphing Acts of Everyday Kindness, Challenges of Kindness + Strategies for Overcoming, ABC's of Kindness & Kind Deeds, and more!
✨ SEL Bulletin Board Materials that include important vocabulary like kindness, consciousness, patience, and generosity and inspirational quotations for a visual reminder of your kindness and empathy lessons
✨ SEL Morning Meeting Google Slides — Teacher and student versions to implement this unit digitally or use as visual prompts and discussion starters on your interactive whiteboard
Ready to see your students transform into compassionate, thoughtful individuals who uplift each other every day? Grab this set and start building a classroom of kindness today!
WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My students needed a kindness reminder. This has been a wonderful resource to help reinforce classroom community with my 3rd graders and help them recognize times they have not been very kind recently, whether it was intentional or not. It has also been a great supplement while we read Charlotte's Web with its themes of kindness and friendship."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Lots of resources to use throughout this unit on kindness. I appreciated that the activities were appropriate for intermediate students."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Very well organized. LOVE the book suggestions. AMAZING for morning meetings/SEL Curriculum."
SAVE WITH A MINI-BUNDLE OR THE MEGA BUNDLE OF ALL TOPICS
SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 1: Perseverance, Kindness, Belonging, Empathy & Compassion, and Conflict Resolution
SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 2: Gratitude, Happiness, Integrity, Goal Setting, & Individuality
SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 3: Courage, Intrinsic Motivation, Responsibility, Friendship & Managing Emotions
If you're looking for a year-long social emotional learning curriculum that is perfect for morning meetings, classroom community building, counselor lessons, or sub plans, click here to save 40% on the all themes bundle of 16 social emotional learning units. Each unit is set up similarly with the same components for easy implementation!
YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZIPPED FILE CONTAINING:
-
PDF of guided lesson plans and student activity journal; within this PDF, you'll find a link to two Google Slides:
- Teacher Presentation Google Slides
- Student Notebook Google Slides
- PDF of bulletin board materials with vocabulary and quotation posters
Copyright © Tammy Roose, Tarheelstate Teacher.
The purchase of this resource gives the buyer permission to download and copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution is also limited to single classroom use. Copying for other teachers, school-wide use, or school systems is only allowed with the purchase of additional licenses.
