Inside: Use this year long Kindness Craft and Write Bundle to tie in reading, writing, holidays and social emotional skills each month. Elementary schools revolve around the seasons. Yes, we teach reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic, but we infuse the holidays and seasons into almost everything we teach. Since our students are excited about the pumpkins […]
Learning at Home
Mother’s Day Emergent Reader: I am Kind to My Mom
Inside: Use this I am Kind to Mom Mother’s Day Emergent Reader to celebrate all the ways we can be kind to moms and mother figures. When I worked as a florist in college, the busiest day wasn’t Valentine’s Day. It was Mother’s Day. Around the world, people young and old show kindness and love […]
Spring Kindness Bucket List Activity to Spread Kindness
Inside: Use this Spring Kindness Bucket List Activity to help kids spread kindness throughout the spring months with easy, kid-friendly activities. Spring brings renewal, snow melting and warmer weather. It’s the time when we can cautiously put away our snow gear and we get longer days and more sun. We get Spring Break and the […]
A Year of Kindness Crafts to Focus on Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Use this list of 12 kindness crafts you can use throughout the year to tie social emotional learning to each holiday. As an elementary school teacher, we planned everything month to month, based on the holidays of that month. I still know that in February, we covered Groundhog Day and seasons, President’s Day, Black […]
Winter SEL Bundles of Activities to Teach Character Education
Inside: Use this Winter SEL Bundle to teach social-emotional learning and character education during the winter months. We used to live in a part of the country where there was really only one season. So when we taught the seasons to students, we really had to read a lot of books and bring in realia […]