Kindness & Bucket Filling Unit for K-2

This Kindness & Bucket Filler SEL curriculum is teacher-approved and includes 5 detailed lessons filled with hands-on and mindful activities that teach children about kindness, have them complete a kindness challenge with random acts of kindness, and ways to be a bucket filler.

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Through a variety of thought-provoking lessons, discussions, community building ideas, and tons of engaging activities…

• Children will learn what kindness is and describe what it means to be a kind kid.
• Children will describe and demonstrate ways of being kind to others.
• Children will make efforts to show kindness to others each day.
• Children will understand what random acts of kindness are and perform as many acts as they can during a kindness challenge.
• Children will learn the meaning of generosity and ways to give to others.
• Children will understand the bucket filling system and make an effort to be a bucket filler who helps fill other people’s buckets.

What does this unit cover?

Lesson 1: What is Kindness?

Teaches kids to understand what kindness is and describe what it means to be a kind kid.

Lesson 2: Being Kind to Others

Teaches children to describe and demonstrate ways of being kind to others. They will make efforts to show kindness to others each day.

Lesson 3: Generosity & Giving

Teaches children to describe what generosity and giving means and demonstrate ways of being generous.

Lesson 4: Kindness Challenge

Teaches children to understand what random acts of kindness are and perform as many acts as they can during a kindness challenge.

Lesson 5: Bucket Filler System

Teaches children to understand the bucket filling system and make an effort to be a bucket filler who helps fill other people’s buckets.

Activities included in the Kindness unit:
Look at the PREVIEW for a look at this SEL unit up close and the variety of lessons and activities included!

• Discussion Starters cards
• Anchor Chart pieces
• Coloring Posters
• Boardgame
• Tons of literature connections & writing activities
• Mini-Books
• Sorting activity
• Kindness Challenge with calendar of tasks
• Donut craftivity
• Door & bulletin board letters to customize your decor
• Scenario cards
• SMILE-a-gram templates
• 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.

WHY this is the ONE Social-Emotional Learning resource you need to teach kids about their emotions!

1. Each lesson and follow-up activities can extend to cover your SEL time for a month! This is a flexible SEL curriculum that can be taught when teachers have time, while the recommendation is to teach a lesson once a week and extend it throughout the week with the follow-up activities.
2. You will have what you need to facilitate meaningful discussions and impactful activities that build important social and emotional skills and grow your classroom community.
3. You will save time as the planning is done for you.
4. Since this is research-based and follows the CASEL framework for SEL, you know that you are covering the most important lessons kids need!
5. It provides a TON of variety and includes activities that will engage students and help them build important emotional awareness skills.
6. The lessons and activities work great for morning classroom meetings or end of the day lessons, for school counselors, classroom teachers, and in a homeschool setting.

Try the SEL program that is needed in ALL classrooms!

mind+heart Social Emotional Learning curriculum for K-2

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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