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Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day"

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Sesame Street: Try a Little Kindness (with Tori Kelly)

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'The Kindness Project- Being Kind is Easy!' on ViewPure

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We interviewed the 1st-5th grade students at Centerpoint school district to find out what kindness means to them!

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'TED Talk - Kindness - Orly Wahba' on ViewPure

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LVI Founder, Orly Wahba, discusses the magic of kindness at TED.\n\nLike us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifevestinside\nFollow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lifevestinside\nFollow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/lifevestinside\nFollow us on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5018...\nConnect with our founder: https://www.facebook.com/orlyfwahba\n\nLearn more about Life Vest Inside by visiting our site! http://www.lifevestinside.com\n\nLife Vest Inside is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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Create a poster explaining what kindness means to you.

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In teams of 3-4, use your collective knowledge about kindness to create a collaborative art piece showing how together we can be kind at school.

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'Sesame Street: Mark Ruffalo: Empathy' on ViewPure

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Decorate your classroom with Kindness Inspiration!

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Decorate your classroom with Kindness Inspiration!

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The Kindness Kit (Throw Kindness Like Confetti)

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What better time to teach kindness and empathy than the present? Jump on board the kindness revolution and add some color to your classroom with these powerful banners and posters. This Kindness Kit includes:- The trending "Throw Kindness Like Confetti" door template- Kindness/motivational posters- ...

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Sprinkle Kindness Donut (a FREE character building craftivity)

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Have you read the book, The Jelly Donut Difference by Maria Dismondy? It is an excellent book to use when teaching how to show acts of kindness to our friends and family. This FREE donut craftivity is a great follow up activity to the read aloud.

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Kindness Challenge {Promoting Kindness in the Classroom}

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Today marks the start of Random Acts of Kindness Week and my students are not always the greatest at being kind to one another. For this reason, I've decided to start a 28-day Kindness Challenge in my classroom tomorrow in honor of #RAKWeek2017. Each student is given a challenge sheet with 28 ways...

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This little flip book is perfect for the month of February, any character building lesson, or just when you want your little ones to think about giving back. <3 This book contains four pages that are perfect for small people to cut and assemble. ************************************************...

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Radial Symmetry COLLABORATIVE KINDNESS Activity Coloring Page #kindnessnation

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Collaborative practice in the classroom can facilitate acceptance, cooperation and teamwork. This collaborative activity was created from the rubric of one of my most popular resources and will be offered "free forever" as part of my own collaboration with teacher/authors here on TpT who are commit...

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Pass Out Random Notes of Kindness (outright or hidden) for Students or Teachers

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Pass Out Random Notes of Kindness (outright or hidden) for Students or Teachers

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Random Acts of Kindness Cards - Blessing Manifesting

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Random acts of kindness cards for you to print out and place around your city. Do something nice for someone else. Be kind. Spread the love.

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Service learning is essential for students of every age. But kids' first service learning experiences must be enjoyable in order to establish a lifelong passion for giving back. The key is to provide an authentic, memorable volunteerism experience, all the while making service learning fun for kids.

Various studies have shown the important effects service learning has on students' academic and emotional growth. Benefits include:

Improvement of students' problem analysis, critical thinking, and cognitive development.

Heightened student engagement in the lesson.

Ability to link what they have learned to the "real world."

Enrichment of social emotional learning, which increases students' self-esteem and compassion for others. (Source: The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College)

Together with our friends at St. Jude, we've come up with seven easy but impactful ways you can make service learning fun for the kids in your classroom.

Preschool and day care children learn about trike and riding-toy safety and the importance of helping others, all while having fun and earning prizes. Launched in 1983, St. Jude Trike-A-Thon fundraisers provide educators with a weeklong curriculum that includes a series of interactive lessons with two charming characters, Bikewell Bear and Pedals the Bunny. Educational materials-storybooks, videos, and coloring books-that support learning are also provided. All of this adds an educational bent to your big trike event and your efforts for St. Jude! Click here to find out more.

2. Challenge older kids to be the tour guides for younger ones. (1-4)

Five-year-olds are excited and can be a bit apprehensive when entering elementary school or making the jump from kindergarten to "the big leagues." Have older elementary students visit the kindergarten or a local preschool to present special books, photos, or videos they created that tell children what to expect when they transition to a new grade.

The St. Jude Math-a-Thon is designed to work with your school's existing curriculum. Students raise money from friends and family and solve math problems in grade-specific Funbooks, developed by Scholastic. Students also learn how math plays an important role in the lifesaving work happening every day at St. Jude. Visit stjude.org/math to get your class involved.

4. Try a soap drive. (K and up)

Photo credit: MySuburbanLife.com

Students collect soap donations from families, as well as unused soap from local hotels that would normally be disposed of, and donate them to local homeless shelters.

5. Start a real-life business and donate the proceeds. (2 and up)

While learning about economics, have your students develop their own businesses to raise money for a charitable cause. Students develop a product, brand name, and logo and create a commercial by filming one another with an iPad or present their product to the class. Then turn your classroom or school cafeteria into a kid business expo where students can purchase goods from their classmates and students sell their wares. Products that students have sold with success in kid business classrooms include lip balm, slime, cake pops, UFO Frisbees, and candy boxes. The proceeds then go to your students' cause of choice, such as St. Jude!

6. Read to senior citizens. (3-5)

Students can improve their reading skills by reading to nursing-home residents in their local communities. Not only are students making new friends, they are improving their reading fluency.

7. Create your own fundraiser for St. Jude kids. (Pre-K-12)

Pair your passion with a purpose by designing your own fundraiser for St. Jude. When it comes to creating your own event, the sky's the limit! Talent shows, bake sales, and walk-a-thons are just a few of the many ways schools nationwide are already raising funds for St. Jude. Access free online fundraising resources and support by visiting stjude.org/yourway.

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7 Ideas That Make Service Learning Fun for Kids - WeAreTeachers

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One of my favorite activities to do with my students is "The Toothpaste Lesson." As early as preschool, most students are exposed to the phrase, "If you don't have anything nice to say, than don't say anything at all." I think it's great that they learn this, but what is even better is when they learn and understand "the why" behind the phrase.

Words are powerful! They can make a person feel amazing or they can make someone really feel hurt. Once words are spoken, kind or unkind, they are forever imprinted on the heart. And for that reason, each group of kids that I ever work with receives the "Toothpaste Lesson."

For this lesson, all you need is a tube of toothpaste, a spoon and a large paper heart (I've even just used a paper plate when that's all I've had on hand). I also like to call up a student volunteer to interact with me during this lesson.

Start the lesson by giving your student volunteer the large paper heart to hold up in front of the class. Then give that student a compliment and squeeze out some toothpaste onto their paper heart. Give them another compliment and do the same thing. Tell the class that spoken words "stick" to people's hearts.

Then, tell the class that the same thing happens when you say something unkind to a person, the words are put on their heart and stuck there. You can give an example by saying, "I don't like the way you do your hair." When you do that, squeeze more toothpaste onto their paper heart. You can give another few examples of unkind things to say and add more toothpaste to the paper heart. Students will get the idea that words "stick" to the heart.

Then ask the class what is the right thing to do when you say something unkind and hurt someone's feelings. Hopefully a student will say that you apologize :-). That is when you pick up the spoon and say sorry for each unkind thing that you spoke and try to scoop off that toothpaste clump from the paper heart. Try to put the toothpaste back into the toothpaste tube (a.k.a. your mouth).

Students will see that while you are apologizing and trying to take the words back, you can't fit it all back into the toothpaste tube and you can't fully get it off their heart. I love this part of the lesson because students really see that even when you say, "I'm sorry," you cannot ever completely erase the hurt of those "sticky," unkind words. They are stuck to the heart.

After doing this lesson for a few years, I started referring to unkind words as "sticky" words. I even do this with my own children at home. It is a great reminder to students that when something unkind is said, that there is a lasting effect of those words. Hopefully this will cause them to think and always be kind with their words.

I hope you've been INSPIRED!

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The Toothpaste Lesson · Inspired Elementary

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One of my favorite activities to do with my students is "The Toothpaste Lesson." As early as preschool, most students are exposed to the phrase, "If you don't have anything nice to say, than don't say anything at all." I think it's great that they learn this, but what is even better is when they...

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WHAT TO KNOW

OBJECTIVES:
Participants will:

COMMON CORE STANDARDS:

MATERIALS:

"Through the Don't Laugh at Me program, we'll be looking at how we treat each other as a classroom (or school) community and how we can make sure everyone feels safe, cared for, and welcome. Together we'll explore how to make sure everyone is respected in our classroom and no one is laughed at. And we'll be looking out for ways we can share our learning and caring with others in our school, our city, and our global community." "Let's begin today with a fun activity that will get us in the right frame of mind for working and learning together."
Alliterative Attribute Game: The game will travel around the classroom and works best if children are seated in a circle. Have the first person say his or her first name and one attribute (explain what that is) that begins with the same letter. For example: My name is Calli and I am COURAGEOUS. The person next to "Calli" says, " Her name is Calli and she is courageous." Then that person says his or her own alliterative phrase. " My name is Rocky and I am REAL!" The game proceeds around the circle, with each student repeating the Alliterative Attribute from the person beside him or her and sharing his or her own.

Introduce the lesson:

"Today we are going to learn how the way we treat one another can affect the way we feel about ourselves. What do you think a "put-down" is? (Put-downs, either with words-name calling and teasing-or with actions, like excluding someone, make someone feel badly about themselves).

What are some examples of a put-down? (Do not record or write down any of the put-downs or those behaviors may be reinforced.)

Show the students the large paper heart you have made.
"I am going to read a story called The Torn Heart, about a boy named Jimmy. This heart represents Jimmy's heart. I'll need your help. Whenever you hear a put-down in the story, I want you to give me a "thumbs-down" sign. When you do that, we will see what happens to Jimmy's heart.
For each put-down, you will gently rip a piece off the heart and drop it to the ground.

IMPORTANT: Be mindful of the students who are highly empathetic or experiencing situations in which such put-downs might be common. Acknowledge for them that it is sad to see what is happening to Jimmy's heart. Remind them the story was written to teach people how to treat one another more kindly.
One Tuesday morning, when the alarm clock rang, Jimmy did not get out of bed. Ten minutes later, his mother opened the door to his room. "Come on," she said, "You'll be late for school again. You're a lazy kid." (rip) "But Mama, I'm sick," Jimmy said. "Why do you always act like a baby?" (rip) Jimmy's mother said, "You're always sick on PE day. Just get up and get ready. Your brother's already dressed. (rip) Jimmy quickly put on his clothes and went to the kitchen to get something to eat. His older brother, Lucas, had just finished. "I'm leaving, Mama," Lucas said. "You wait for Jimmy," their mother said. "That loser (rip) is always late," Lucas said. "I don't want to miss the bus." The boys made it to the bus just in time, with Jimmy following behind his older brother. As the doors of the bus closed and it started rolling, Jimmy remembered that he had left his homework in his bedroom. Jimmy asked the bus driver if he would wait while he went back to get his homework, "What are you, kid, a moron? (rip) This isn't a taxi. Anyway, that's what you get for being late." (rip) When Jimmy got to school he told his teacher that he had left his homework at home. She said, "That's the fourth time this month, Jimmy. Have you really been doing your work? I'm beginning to think you're lying. (rip) I'm afraid I'm going to have to talk to your parents about this." Jimmy liked to play sports, but he did not like PE class, where he was the smallest of all the boys. That day in PE they were supposed to play basketball. The teachers asked the kids to divide themselves into two teams, the Lions and Tigers. Within a few minutes, there were ten boys in each team, with only Jimmy left. (rip) The captain of the Lions team said: "We don't want him-he's no good." (rip) "He's no Tiger. He's more like a scaredy cat," (rip) said the captain of the Tigers. And the other boys laughed. (rip) Finally, the teacher assigned Jimmy to the Lions team, but he sat on the bench for the whole time because the captain never put him in the game. (rip) That day after school, Jimmy's brother, Lucas, was playing soccer with his friends in the field near their house. Soccer was his favorite sport, so Jimmy asked Lucas if he could play, too. "No way, Lucas said. "You'd ruin the game." (rip) Their mother heard this and said: "You should let your brother play with you, Lucas." But Mama, he's too slow," (rip) Lucas said. "And he always in the way." (rip)

How do you think Jimmy is feeling right now?

Have students create frozen body "sculptures" of how they imagine Jimmy is feeling. Use a put up to "un-freeze" each student and ask him or her to describe his or her "sculpture. "

Discuss:

Why is Jimmy feeling that way? What might be the effect on him of being treated this way day after day?

What could his mother have said that might not have hurt his feelings? How could she encourage him to get up on time?

Go over places in the story where the put-downs occur. "What could that person say instead that wouldn't be a put-down?"

"If each person in the story tried to be more positive, we could put this heart back together. Let's try doing it with this tape."

Read the story again, but this time, have students offer some put-ups for Jimmy in the places where there are put-downs. Record the put-ups on your script as students offer them. Then attempt to tape the heart back together.

In pairs, ask students to discuss the following questions:

How do you think Jimmy is feeling now?

"How did we do? It doesn't look the original heart. Why not?"

Sometimes people say, "sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never harm me." Do you agree? Why or why not?

Guide students in understanding that the story seems to show that words can be very harmful and are not easy to repair.

"How can we use this story to work on making our classroom a place where we try to notice put-downs and support each other in positive ways?" Record student ideas on chart paper.

Have two student volunteers act out the version of the Torn Heart with all of the put-ups. Ask: How might this version of the story, the version where Jimmy receives put-ups, affect his day? What do you imagine the rest of his day might be like?

We've been singing the "Don't Laugh at Me" song, which-like the Torn Heart-reminds us that put-downs are painful. Let's try a version of the chorus that Peter Yarrow sometimes sings to help us think about how put-downs can be replaced with put-ups:
Please smile with me, please be my friend. Please accept me for who I am. No one's out and no one's in. Some day we'll all have perfect wings. Don't Laugh at Me.
Go around the group having each child say one kind thing they can commit to doing that day for someone they care about. Stress that it must be something that they know they can do that very day. Model the activity by beginning with a commitment to something you will do.

No handouts included for this lesson.

K-1: Change the "torn" heart to the "worn" heart. Instead of ripping pieces off during the story, crumple the heart for each put-down. When students offer put-ups for Jimmy, unfold the heart and try to smooth out the wrinkles. The heart will still demonstrate that hurtful words stay with us.

Amend some of the put-downs from the story to more age-appropriate language. (For example, change loser to slowpoke.)

Follow the instructions for grades 2-5 for the rest of the activity.

Grade 6-12: Use the story as provided in the 2-5 curriculum or enlist student volunteers to help rewrite a version of the Torn Heart story for your grade level. Be sure they do not use names of any students in your classroom or actual incidents that have happened to them. The torn heart is an effective tool because it is dramatic and exaggerated on purpose. It is not meant to be a real scenario. Here are some additional processing questions to use with secondary students:
What are some reasons people might use such put-downs? What do they gain from it? Are there other ways people might gain that very same thing without hurting someone else?
Adults: Do the activity as described. Debrief the activity additionally:
What are some reasons people might use such put-downs? What do they gain from it? Are there other ways people might gain that very same thing without hurting someone else? How many of you have been hurt by put-downs at some point in your life?
Explain the rationale: This activity gives young people a way to talk about what's going on for them and helps form a common vocabulary for talking about ridicule. It can give teachers and parents a point of entry to hear what children are feeling and be a motivator for more caring behavior. Learning to stop using put-downs and start using put-ups takes practice both on the teacher's part, as well as the children's.

K-1 Literacy: A good book to read aloud is Stand in My Shoes: Kids Learning About Empathy by Bob Sornson. Have students draw a picture and write or dictate about a time when they wanted someone to empathize with them.

K-5 Literacy: Have You Filled A Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. This story provides a visual, similar to the torn heart, that teaches the effect of kind words and actions on other people. It encourages readers to be "bucket-fillers" by taking steps to make someone else's day. Have students write and draw in journals to share ways that they "filled" someone's bucket.

K-5 Literacy and Arts: Have students draw pictures of themselves when they hear put-ups. Have them glue their picture inside a large red heart. Encourage students to write or dictate some put-ups they like to hear on this heart.

2-5 Literacy: Read The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes. Have students write a letter to Wanda's teacher letting her know how the other students have been treating Wanda and making suggestions for how to make it stop. Focus student's ideas on what they would want their teacher to do in a similar situation.

K-12 Literacy, Art and Technology: Have students work in small groups to create a "Put-Up" Word Cloud using technology or art supplies. Show these word clouds as a gathering or closing for any activity to remind students of the power of positive words.

6-12 Media Literacy: Have young people explore issues of gender stereotyping and the role of the media by brainstorming a list of put-downs related to gender stereotyping and explore where they learned these things. Then have students think of the things they love to do and how it would feel not to be able to do them or to be ridiculed because they do them. What ways could your school become more inclusive to all young people and their unique ways of expressing themselves?

6-12 Media Literacy/Math: Young people can look at song lyrics and TV shows for incidences of put-downs to answer the question: "How pervasive are put downs in our culture?" How many examples of put-ups can they find? This could be turned into a math activity charting and comparing percentages of incidences found across several sources by aggregating each student's research.

6-12 History: Students can analyze speeches of major historical figures on both sides of a conflict to understand the use and power of put-ups versus putdowns in scapegoating groups, enemies and allies.

6-12 Writing: Have students write poetry or their own song lyrics that express their feelings about put-downs and encouraging put-ups.

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Don't Laugh at Me Program Lesson 4 The Torn Heart

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WHAT TO KNOW OBJECTIVES: Participants will: COMMON CORE STANDARDS: MATERIALS: "Through the Don't Laugh at Me program, we'll be looking at how we treat each other as a classroom (or school) community and how we can make sure everyone feels safe, cared for, and welcome.

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'CGI Animated Short Film HD "The Present " by Jacob Frey | CGMeetup' on ViewPure

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The Present Short Film by Jacob Frey. Featured on http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/the-present/ \n\nAfter a very successful festival circuit, running on over 180 film festivals and winning more than 50 awards, we've decided that it's finally time to share "The Present" with the rest of the world.\n"The Present" is a thesis short from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.\n\nWe really hope you enjoy the result of our hard work.

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'Singa and the Kindness Cubbies (Ep 2) - Empathy' on ViewPure

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The escapades of Singa and the kindness cubbies of Kindsville continue. This time, Tosh learns that with some understanding and empathy, he can be a good friend to Tomeo.

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'Kid President's 20 Things We Should Say More Often' on ViewPure

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Kid President believes the things we say can help make the world more awesome. Here he shares a special list of 20 things we should say more often. What would you add to it?\n\nSubscribe to SoulPancake for new videos every weekday!

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'Kid President + Glad to Give present How Good Spreads' on ViewPure

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Socktober is upon us! Help us all month long to collect socks and give to those in need. Find out how you can get involved at http://happysocktober.com/. Special thanks to Glad to Give for all the amazing things they do to make this world more awesome.

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Calm Coloring-Great for calm transitions and down time

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Kindness Quote coloring pages from Doodle Art Alley

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The Act Of Kindness Can Change Someones Life Forever - Inspirational Video

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