Inside: Thank a Teacher The Day after Halloween on November 1st which is the hardest day to be a teacher! When I taught elementary school, the hardest day to teach was always November 1st. The kids were still crashing from the excitement of Halloween and the fun of trick or treating. Plus, most of them […]
Raising Kind Kids
Thanksgiving Kindness Activities for Kids to Focus on SEL
Inside: Use these Thanksgiving kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during November. November is a great time to focus on turkeys and the complicated relationships between the Pilgrims and the Indigenous tribes who helped them. As teachers, we also focus on leaves and pumpkins, and autumn before we turn our attention […]
Trash or Kindness Game to Understand Kindness
Inside: Teach kids how to be kind more often with this trash or kindness game that lets them decide if social interactions are unkind, rude or kind. I visited my daughter’s school to volunteer and had some extra time to watch my kids play on the yard afterward. Observing a playground watching kids play always […]
Thanksgiving Kindness Emergent Reader Book to Focus on SEL
Inside: Use this Thanksgiving Kindness Emergent Reader to show all the ways kids can be kind, helpful and generous during Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving time, if we protect it from getting overshadowed by the excitement of the winter holidays that follow right after, can be a magical time for families. We spend time together, dust off old […]
Halloween Kindness Paper Chain Countdown to Halloween
Inside: Countdown to Halloween and focus on kindness at the same time by using this Kindness Countdown to Halloween Paper Chain. October to December for any school year is especially crazy as we all try to teach all the things and celebrate all the holidays. Halloween to Winter Break can often feel like a blur […]