Spot of Kindness & Nonfiction Kindness Informative Book Unit
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Teaching kindness is indeed a crucial aspect of building a positive and supportive classroom community. By fostering a culture of kindness, students not only learn to treat each other with respect and empathy but also create an environment conducive to effective learning and personal growth. Utilizing these two resources will implicitly teach your students what kindness is, how they can show it on a daily basis, and encourage students to be kind throughout the school year. There are loads of activities included in both of these classroom SEL social emotional learning resources.
Not only is The Spot of Kindness by Diane Alber a great book for back to school, but it is also wonderful for building a positive classroom community. This activity pack has positive posters to remind students of ways they can show kindness daily. There are ideas for a classroom incentive kindness jar as well. Together you can review ways to show kindness with the classroom scenario sort. Also included is a fun be kind spot craft. I can't wait to read this on the first week of school. This unit can be used for distance learning and google classroom with the new TpT digital tool.
In this fun activity pack you will receive:
- Question cards cut apart and place on a ring
- Recall
- Main Idea & Details
- Text to text
- Word search
- Class book cover
- Class book insert pages 2 options
- Can you spot our kindness? Poster
- 8 different acts of kindness each one on a circle spot. (use to display in the classroom) 8 pages
- 3 different bulletin header options (spot kindness, show kindness, or kindness tree)
- Kindness jar incentive pages 2
- Spot of kindness craftivity
- Kindness sorting cards (8 categories with 2 cards for each category)
- Kindness sorting cards with pictures and in color
- Kindness Spot (add student’s names and spots when they show kindness)
Acts of Kindness for School Staff (a note and simple activity for each of the following)
- Principal
- Night janitors
- Secretary
- Cafeteria Staff
- School Counselor
- Art Teacher
- Family
- MornIng Janitor
- Librarian
- Music Teacher
- Physical Ed. Teacher
- Classmates
- Teacher
- Nurse
- Computer Teacher
This Kindness nonfiction unit was created to teach your students all about kindness and how we can spread kindness on a daily basis. It would make a great unit to teach during the first week or month of school. Students will work on the reading informational text standards while they learn about different ways to show kindness at school, home and in the community. This unit begins with a 12 page mini reader that will teach them all different ways to be kind. There are many comprehension activities to complete after you read the story. Students will enjoy a matching activity, making a sunshine craft, or completing the word work and writing activities. There are loads of goodies in this resource to kick off kindness in your classroom.
Comprehension Activities:
- My Schema
- 12-page mini reader copy 2 per page with table of contents, and headings
- Learned/Questions 2 options
- Matching Kindness 2 pages
- Nonfiction text features hunt
- Digging for Details
- Fact and Details
- Text Connections 2 options
- Kindness Looks, Feels, Sounds
- What is Kindness?
- Headings
- Table of Contents
- Caption
- 2 Facts I learned 2 pages
- Wondered/Learned
Word Work:
- ABC Order
- Word Search
- Making Words
- Syllables
- Punctuation
Posters:
- Let’s Spread Kindness Full page
- Ways to Spread Kindness 4per page -3 pages
Sort: Kind/Unkind
- 16 cards to sort
- Color version & B&W version
Writing:
- Class Book Cover 2 options
- Insert Page 2 options
- Informative prewriting and writing
Sunshine Craft 2 options
- Letters that spell “be kind spread sunshine" 4 letters per page & 2 letters per page
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