This Kindness & Bucket Filler social emotional learning curriculum teaches Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade kids how to be kind, giving, and a bucket filler.
It includes five detailed social skills lessons and fun kindness activities (crafts, coloring pages, bulletin board, writing, games, and worksheets). Great for random acts of kindness week or February Valentine's Day kindness activities.
What does this unit cover?
⭐️What is Kindness?
Teaches kids to understand what kindness is and describe what it means to be a kind kid.
⭐️Being Kind to Others
Teaches children to describe and demonstrate how to be kind to others. They will make efforts to show kindness to others each day.
⭐️Generosity & Giving
Teaches children to describe what generosity and giving means and demonstrate ways of being generous.
⭐️Kindness Challenge
Teaches children to understand what random acts of kindness are and perform as many acts as they can during a kindness challenge.
⭐️Bucket Filler System
It teaches children to understand the bucket-filling system and make an effort to be bucket fillers who help fill other people’s buckets.
Activities included in the Kindness unit:
- Discussion Starters cards
- Anchor Chart pieces
- Kindness Coloring Pages
- Board game
- Literature connections & writing activities
- Storybook
- Sorting activity
- Random Acts of Kindness Calendar Challenge
- Donut craftivity
- Kindness Door Decoration & bulletin board
- Kindness roleplay scenarios
- SMILE-a-gram kindness cards
- Kindness scavenger hunt
- Buckets for filler system
- Bucket filler hat
- Bucket filler vs. dipper sentence sort
- & more!
PLUS A BRAND NEW BONUS: Family Partnership Guide
Connect with and encourage families to take part in the social-emotional learning development of their child and the concepts you are teaching at school. Each unit includes a printable guide with a letter to families, strategies and activities they can try at home, and a book guide with video links.
✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides: the lesson plans, interactive activities, games, posters, and more.
WHY this is the ONE SEL resource you need to teach kids about their emotions!
✔️Each lesson and activity can be extended to cover your SEL time for a month!
✔️This is a flexible SEL curriculum that can be taught when teachers have time
✔️Facilitate meaningful discussions and activities that build important social-emotional skills and grow the classroom community.
✔️Save time as the planning is done for you.
✔️This is research-based and follows the CASEL framework for SEL.
✔️Works great for morning meetings or end of the day lessons, for school counselors, classroom teachers, and in a homeschool setting.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kelsie W. says, "This resource has been amazing for my classroom! A great way to teach kindness and build community in the classroom. I also love that it came with parent letters that I could send home. Thank you!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Megan H. says, "My students really enjoyed learning about being bucket fillers. It has become part of our everyday vocabulary and they are able to express their feelings to other students proficiently. We turned a few of the activities into games and the students were all so engaged and genuinely enjoyed learning about kindness, generosity, and bucket filling."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Renee K. says, "These units have been such a wonderful resource for my class! My students love the mentor texts and activities included. Thank you!"
♥♥The mind+heart Social Emotional Learning Curriculum for K-2 is available for a SPECIAL LOW PRICE DISCOUNT. Get your entire year’s worth of lessons (40+ included) and activities to help young children to develop emotional literacy, self-control, and social competence TODAY! ♥♥
Check out the other SEL units for K-2:
Emotions & Feelings
Self-Regulation & Self-Control
Growth Mindset
Relationships & Friendship
Empathy & Social Awareness
Kindness & Bucket Filling
Respect & Gratitude
Responsibility, Goal Setting, & Conflict Resolution
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♥♥Teach 3-5? The mind+heart Social Emotional Learning Curriculum for 3-5 is available for a SPECIAL DISCOUNT. You will get an entire year’s worth of lessons (40 included) and activities to help older kids to develop emotional literacy, self-control, and social competence! ♥♥
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