Inside: Use this role playing to meet new friends printable to help kids practice different ways to break the ice and meet a potential new friend. I took my kids to the park and I started to panic because I couldn’t find my youngest. But I shouldn’t have worried. She was only in search of […]
How to Use These Classroom Rules Posters to Set Clear Expectations
Use these classroom rules posters to set clear expectations in your classroom and help build a positive classroom environment. My first year teaching as I set up my Kindergarten classroom, my mentor teacher suggested that instead of posting the rules, I asked the kids what they thought the classroom rules should be. So I did […]
Use this Interactive Bulletin Board to Encourage Kindness
Inside: Use this interactive bulletin board to encourage more kindness in your classroom or school and make kindness more of a daily habit. When I taught at my second school, we got a “must place” principal. His last school didn’t want him anymore and he was forced to leave but he was protected, couldn’t be […]
How Educators Can Encourage More Kindness at Home
Inside: Educators can encourage more kindness at home with these seasonal kindness challenges and parents letters for families to do together. My first year teaching, I was handed 6 Character Education posters that had to be posted in my classroom. I was so annoyed they had to be up because I had already meticulously decorated […]
How to Encourage Your Kids to Be Kind With Kindness Lunchbox Notes
Inside: Encourage and help your kids remember to be kind at school with these kindness lunchbox notes for kids. Every morning as my kids pile out of my car and we say our goodbyes and our “I love yous,” I remind them to be kind. I remind them to be kind to their friends. To be […]