This Social Emotional Learning Kindness and Book Companion Bundle includes 5 weeks of kindness activities and 5 read aloud lessons on popular picture books filled with Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade kindness activities.
⭐Teach important lessons on kindness with engaging activities and book companion lessons that promote empathy and compassion.
⭐No more wasting your precious teacher planning time looking for the RIGHT books to teach about kindness. This bundle has curated lists of mentor texts ready for you to grab and go! Kids will love the follow-up activities that are included in each book companion!
⭐Children will participate in classroom discussions and book chats, reflect on acts of kindness, and engage in fun, meaningful activities that build empathy and promote kind behavior using both books and activities. Use them to build off one another for an in-depth exploration of kindness and its impact on those around us.
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- Kindness SEL Curriculum
- Kindness Book Companion Bundle
What does the Kindness SEL K-2 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!
What is Included in the Kindness book companion pack:
- 5 Children’s books related to being kind and performing random acts of kindness
- Detailed lesson plans
- Book chat cards to guide discussion
- Anchor charts
- Book responses & writing prompts
- 4 follow-up activities for every book (2 in digital format)
- Book companion guide with safe links
- Google Slides ready for use in Google Classroom
- Images for use in Seesaw
- Interactive PowerPoint file
What does the Kindness Book Companion Bundle include?
5 Kindness Book Companions:
❤️1. Be Kind by Pat Miller
FOCUS: what kindness means
The activities help them identify different ways to be kind.
4 Activities in the Be Kind book companion:
- How to Be Kind 4-step How-to writing heart flipbook
- Be Kind role play scenario cards
- Rainbow Craft with kindness quote
- Be Kind pledge & certificate award
❤️2. Try a Little Kindness by Henry Cole
FOCUS: simple ways to be kind
They will understand that we can be kind in how we act and help, and what we do and say.
4 Activities in the Try a Little Kindness book companion:
- "Ways to Show Kindness at School" Social Story
- Kindness idea cards
- "Try a Little Kindness" Tear Strips activity
- Kindness bucket list craft activity
❤️3. A Little Spot of Kindness by Diane Alber
FOCUS: spotting opportunities to act with kindness
Kids will also learn synonyms for kindness and that kindness is many things.
4 Activities in the A Little Spot of Kindness book companion:
- Kind Goals hat craft activity
- Spotting Kindness scavenger hunt
- Spotted Being Kind punch cards
- Spot of Kindness notes
❤️4. The Cool Bean by John Jory & Pete Oswald
FOCUS: what it really means to be cool are included in the mind+heart SEL curriculum?
↑↑↑ Look at the PREVIEW for the mind+heart Kindness SEL and Book Companion BUNDLE up close, the individual units, and the variety of lessons and activities included!↑↑↑
Don’t own a copy of a book? No problem! Safe links to video recordings of books being read aloud are included, as well as a book list of more books to use during your lessons.
DISCLAIMER: The video links to the read-alouds and supplemental lesson content are subject to change at any time. Proud to be Primary is not the creator of these videos, and therefore the links may be removed by the creators or authors of the content at any time at their discretion. If you find a broken link in the resource, please let us know by leaving a Q&A, and try searching YouTube for an alternate video to watch instead. Read alouds online are also available for teachers via the library website Hoopla.
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!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Barrie F. says, “This has been a great resource to reinforce being kind in my classroom! We love the books and activities that come along with it! Thank you”
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This Social-Emotional Learning and Book Companion BUNDLE gives you an entire YEAR’S WORTH of SEL lessons (41) and HUNDREDS of activities along with 40 Book Companions covering many important social-emotional topics all young children need to learn and practice.
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