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Kindness Water Splashes Kind or Unkind Sort for SEL Curriculum

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Inside: Use this kindness water splashes hands-on activity to help students decide what is kind and what is not kind in this sel curriculum sort. 


As a student and then as a teacher and now as a mom with kids in school, we love summer around here. 

It’s days with no alarm clocks, no summer lunches, and plenty of water time: pools, beach time, and water balloon fights.

Since we don’t own a pool we often have to invent our own water play around here, including inflatable pools, water balloon fights and water balloon slingshots. 

And whenever we can connect summer fun with learning, it makes everything a little more fun and a little more hands-on for our kids.

So we’re connecting water splashes to social emotional learning and character education by helping kids decide what is kind and what is not with our Kindness Water Splashes Kind or Unkind Sort. 

This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education

Great Ways to Teach SEL in the Summer:

The beauty of teaching social emotional learning and character education is that it can be taught anywhere, to any grade, for any amount of time. And it connects to any holiday, season, or “traditional” curriculum like reading and writing. 

Related: Why Should Teachers Teach SEL? 8 Reasons here! 

So while you can teach kindness at any time of the year, summer is a great time to dig in while kids aren’t pressured to learn other academic skills. 

To connect social emotional learning to summer we use things like our Summer Kindness Challenge and our Summer Kindness Bucket List and our July Volunteer Challenge. 

We also love to spread kindness on park days with our Random Acts of Kindness for Kids.

We also love to use our summer-themed kind or unkind sorts like our Kindness Suns, our Kindness Popsicles, and this Kindness Water Splash Activity. 

How to Use the Kindness Water Splashes: 

1. Purchase and print the cards and the Kind or Not Kind Pools on cardstock paper.

This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education

 

2. If you print them in black and white, you can color in the cards first. Make sure to use skin color crayons like these to ensure the students on the water splash cards are diverse. 

This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education

3. Cut apart the cards.

This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education

 

4. Go over the pictures on the cards to ensure children understand what the picture depicts. You can use these as discussion starters before or after the activity.

5. The students will sort the cards by kind actions or unkind actions by placing the cards near the correct pool. 

This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education 

They can do this during independent centers, small groups, or as a whole group in a pocket chart. 

6. To follow up on the activity, students can complete the worksheet to show their understanding. 

This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education

7. To connect this sel activity to writing standards, students can draw a picture and write how they will choose to be kind this season. Pre-writers can dictate their sentences. 

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Ready to Use the Kindness Water Splashes Kind or Unkind Sort Activity? 

This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education

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This summer themed social emotional learning game to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. It's perfect summer character education    


You can spread kindness as you countdown to summer break.

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I’m Nicole and I am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and I mostly survive on strong coffee.

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