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Formed.org: Free Daily Advent Reflections

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Formed.org: Free Daily Advent Reflections

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Each Daily Reflection is a short video that features Dr. Tim Gray commenting on the daily Mass readings, explaining the Scriptures, and providing you with concrete ideas on how to apply them to your life. This Advent, dive deeper into the joys and mysteries of the Incarnation with Dr. Gray and enjoy the richness of the Christmas season as never before.

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Advent Daily Catholic Reflections | FORMED

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Each Daily Reflection is a short video that features Dr. Tim Gray commenting on the daily Mass readings, explaining the Scriptures, and providing you with concrete ideas on how to apply them to your life. This Advent, dive deeper into the joys and mysteries of the Incarnation with Dr. Gray and enjoy the richness of the Christmas season as never before.

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Listening to Your Brain & Memories. What are Memories?

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Listening to Your Brain & Memories. What are Memories?

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We begin this section with understanding that memory happens everywhere in the brain and in the body! We have memory in the frontal lobes, in the amygdala area (hippocampus)  and in our bodies. Some memories we remember because they are emotional memories. Other memories land in our bodies but we do not consciously remember them. These body memories or implicit memories are unconscious. They can be brought to life with different sounds, tones of voice, colors, objects that remind us of an emotion we felt with that long time ago memory!

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How memories form and how we lose them - Catharine Young

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Matthew Kelly: Best Advent Ever. Free daily reflections. 

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Matthew Kelly: Best Advent Ever. Free daily reflections. 

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Memory Test : How Good is Your Memory? A 2-Minute Test

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We have all changed someone's life -- usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other's lives.

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Prima Ballerina with Alzheimer’s listens to Swan Lake and starts to remember

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Conscious Discipline Chapter 5: Assertiveness

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Conscious Discipline Chapter 5: Assertiveness

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Power: Attention: What you focus on, you get more of

Becoming Brain Smart: Attention directs neuroplasticity and all learning

Skill: Paint for assertive commands, “I’m going to,” Tell and Show, “I don’t like it,” redirection

School Family: M.A.P. Visual Routines, Visual Daily Schedule, Time Machine, Routine Books

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Storytime with the Author - Listening Ninja

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What kind of mountains keep Jesus and his Light away from us?
How can we break down those mountains within our hearts?
What should we do to fill up the valleys?
What else do you want to say to Jesus?

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advent-gr4-6- StudHndout C Prayer Service

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Memory Experiment: Neuroscience For Kids

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Memory Experiment: Neuroscience For Kids

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Intended for elementary and secondary school students and teachers who are interested in learning about the nervous system and brain with hands on activities, experiments and information.

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Continue with Gratitude Journals.... Printables: Gratitude Journal Pages

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Continue with Gratitude Journals.... Printables: Gratitude Journal Pages

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The Kindness Jar is an opportunity to foster a classroom community that celebrates kind deeds performed every day in the classroom.

This freebie includes small cards with a sentence frame to encourage students to record the good deeds they witness in the classroom.

During the week, encourage your students to fill up the kindness jar with brief observations of the kind actions of their classmates. Using the sentence frame on the Kindness Cards, students will describe the kind actions they observed and drop it into the jar. Don't forget to add your own observations, too! At the end of the week, find time to come together as a class and read the Kindness Cards aloud to the students.

I would love to hear how you plan to use this freebie in your classroom. It means so much to me to read your kind words in the feedback section!

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Doing acts of kindness is one of the best activities you can do with your kids.

It's a great way to bond as a family, a lot of fun and teaches kids about compassion and service.

Any act of kindness no matter how big or small can make a difference-especially when done intentionally.

Here are 100 acts of kindness for kids that you and your family can do together!

100 Acts of Kindness for Kids

1. Put change in a vending machine.

2. Hold the door open for someone.

3. Do a chore for someone without them knowing.

4. Tell a joke.

5. Return someone's cart at the store.

6. Give candy to your bank teller.

7. Leave a letter in a library book.

8. Feed the birds.

9. Leave happy notes around town.

10. Put a small bin in your car to collect recycling.

11. Call your grandparents and ask them about their childhood.

12. Pick up litter.

13. Let someone go ahead of you in line.

14. Compliment a friend.

15. Wash someone's car.

16. Write a thank you note for your mail carrier.

17. Plant something.

18. Bake dessert for a neighbor

19. Walk dogs at the animal shelter.

20. Check in on an elderly neighbor.

21. Set up a lemonade stand and donate the profits.

22. Send a card to a service member.

23. Bury treasure at the playground.

24. Set the table for dinner.

25. Leave bubbles on someone's doorstep.

26. Put money on a stranger's layaway bill.

27. Tell someone why they are special to you.

28. Donate outgrown clothes.

29. Buy a coffee for a stranger.

30. Pass out stickers to kids waiting in line.

31. Talk to someone new at school.

32. Write chalk messages on the sidewalk.

33. Weed or shovel for a neighbor.

34. Donate food to the food pantry.

35. Bring flowers to your teacher.

36. Tell a manager how good your service was.

37. Tape change to a parking meter.

38. Donate socks and supplies to the homeless shelter.

39. Give a lottery ticket to a stranger.

40. Call a friend you haven't seen in a while to say hello.

41. Tape money for the ice cream truck to a friend's front door.

42. Take treats to the fire station.

43. Read a book to someone.

44. Leave heads up pennies on the sidewalk.

45. Donate a book to a doctor's office waiting room.

46. Tell someone how much you love them.

47. Say hello to everyone you see.

48. Make someone else's bed.

49. Hold the door open for someone.

50. Wave at kids on school buses.

51. Sing songs at a nursing home.

52. Invite someone to play on the playground.

53. Tell the principal how great your teacher is.

54. Donate a toy to Toys for Tots.

55. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth.

56. Say thank you when you see service members.

57. Fill a kindness jar with candy for another family.

58. Make a thank you sign for sanitation workers.

59. Make a busy bag for a family with young children.

60. Bring cookies to the custodian.

61. Help make dinner.

62. Donate new pajamas for foster kids.

63. Make a get well card for someone.

64. Bring your neighbors' garbage cans up for them.

65. Take care of someone's pet while they're away.

66. Leave a popcorn surprise on a DVD rental machine.

67. Share a special toy with a friend.

68. Clean up your room without being asked.

69. Tape a video message for faraway friends.

70. Leave kindness stones at the park.

71. Give a candy bar to the bus driver.

72. Send dessert to another family at a restaurant.

73. Give spare change to the food pantry.

74. Buy extra school supplies for a teacher.

75. Make muffins for your pharmacist.

76. Teach someone something new.

77. Reuse paper when you are drawing.

78. Pay for someone's toll.

79. Give someone a hug coupon.

80. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.

81. Write a note for someone's lunch.

82. Collect money or items for your favorite charity.

83. Donate coloring books and crayons to the children's hospital.

84. Write a poem for a friend.

85. Ask for donations instead of birthday gifts.

86. Help someone unload groceries at the store.

87. Make a candy gram for the police department.

88. Collect books for the library.

89. Adopt an animal online.

90. Decorate tissue boxes and hand sanitizer for nursing stations.

91. Make a homemade gift for someone.

92. Clean up your toys without being asked.

93. Deliver water bottles to the homeless shelter.

94. Create activity bags for families of deployed soldiers.

95. Give high fives to a friend.

96. Make a thank you card for your librarian.

97. Dry the slides at the park with a towel after it rains.

98. Make play dough for a preschool class.

99. Send a postcard to a friend.

100. Smile at everybody. It's contagious.

Print Your Own 100 Acts of Kindness

Ready to get started?

Yay!!!!

Download the 100 acts of kindness printable below and print it out for your kids (or self!)

Then choose a few from the list and get started. Remember no act of kindness is ever too small!

DOWNLOAD HERE: 100 ACTS OF KINDNESS FOR KIDS FREE PRINTABLE

The best part about doing acts of kindness is once you start you can't stop! They are so much fun to do!

Focusing on kindness can be life-changing for you and your family. We think doing acts of kindness as a family or group can be life changing and encourage you to join our kindness movement.

We share kindness ideas year round and encourage you to sign up for our emails or follow us on Instagram so you don't miss any!

Join the Acts of Kindness Movement

We also help lead world-wide kindness efforts throughout the year we'd love for you to join. Read about each below and get involved with going good!

Countdown to Christmas with Acts of Kindness

Each year we share a Christmas kindness advent calendar readers can use to do a little good as the holidays approach. We have TONS of resources and lots of fun (and many free) kindness ideas for you to do.

We share a December version for those who aren't counting down to Christmas and even have a RACK printable pack you can use to create a personalized calendar for your family!

Use this post to get you started: Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Advent Calendar

100 Acts of Kindness Project

Each year from Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday until Valentine's Day we join with Toddler Approved to do a 100 Acts of Kindness challenge!

This is a wonderful way to kick off the year and is very popular with families and classes. We provide lots of resources and ideas and even have a Facebook group full of participants cheering each other on from around the world.

Use this post to find out more: Join the 100 Acts of Kindness Project
Want even more acts of kindness ideas for kids?
No problem! We've got lots of acts of kindness ideas that kids can do. You're never too young to make a difference!

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Here are 100 acts of kindness for kids that you and your family can do together! Fun (and lots of free) kindness ideas that kids can do.

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Or just as likely, we've got questions and you've got answers.

"Well in Whoville, they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day."

Tell us about an act of kindness that moved you - maybe it's something your child did that made you think, hey, maybe I AM doing OK at this parenting stuff. Or maybe someone did an act of kindness for you that you'll never forget. Share your parenting stories of giving, receiving and teaching kindness - and maybe ALL our hearts will grow three sizes.

Disclosure: This challenge is brought to you with "The Grinch," a new movie from Illumination and Universal Pictures, which shares a parent company with TODAY.

Image credit: Universal Studios/Illumination
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"Well in Whoville, they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day." Tell us about an act of kindness that moved you - maybe it's something your child did that made you think, hey, maybe I AM doing OK at this parenting stuff.

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Debrief/Closing Questions:

- What did Ping do that showed integrity?

- Do you think it was hard for Ping to have integrity when EVERYONE else was doing the wrong thing?

- Why do you think it's important for students have integrity?

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Children's Book Read Aloud | The Empty Pot by Demi | StorytimewithMsMelange

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Read Aloud: Say Something with Your Actions

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Read Aloud: Say Something with Your Actions

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Read Aloud- Say Something By: Peter H. Reynolds

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Integrity Activity (2nd-4th): What Would You Do?

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Integrity Activity (2nd-4th): What Would You Do?

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A lesson on Integrity: This is a group activity called "What Would You Do?". Divide the class into 5 groups, and each group receives a different scenario. They discuss the scenario and then draw or write two ways to react to that situation. They also fill in the fourth box asking if certain changes in the situation would change their reactions. Groups can then present their situation and reactions to the class.

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A lesson on Integrity: This is a group activity called "What Would You Do?". Divide the class into 5 groups, and each group receives a different scenario. They discuss the scenario and then draw or write two ways to react to that situation. They also fill in the fourth box asking if certain chang...