Inside: Use these Kindness Countdown Calendars Printables Paper Chains to spread kindness each day and countdown to the next holiday or school break. It seems like every time we finish a holiday…and I mean the second we wake up the next day…my kids want to know how many days are left until the next holiday. […]
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Christmas Elf Writing for Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Use this Christmas Elf Writing for Kindness to connect Christmas with social emotional learning and writing skills. When it’s the most wonderful time of the year, we can lean into the excitement of the Christmas and winter break spirit with our kids and students by connecting anything we need them to learn to the […]
Christmas Light Writing Activity for Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Use this Christmas Light Writing Activity: You Light Up this Room to connect Christmas, writing and social emotional learning. In a classroom of 20-35 students, it’s easy for students to feel lost or feel like they aren’t valued as a member of the class. But if we want our kids to feel heard, seen, […]
Classroom Holiday Party Activities: 16 Best Winter-Themed Ideas
Inside: Host a classroom holiday party in your kids’ classrooms or scout groups with low-prep, low-mess, low-cost games, activities, and crafts that are winter-themed. Most room parents are busy planning or scrambling to plan, the very best, most awesome holiday party for their kids’ classrooms. And I was tasked with the same job, but for […]
Halloween Kindness Activities for Kids
Inside: Use these Halloween kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during October. Halloween is, of course, a kid favorite holiday. It could be the costumes and dressing up to be anything you want. It could be the Halloween parties, carnivals, and costume parades. Or, it could be the obscene amounts of […]