Teaching Kids How to Be Kind
School is starting and our children will be learning new classroom management procedures with their new teachers in the next few weeks. Many of the classroom management procedures we use at our school stress being respectful and supportive to our classmates and our teacher. As a substitute teacher, I work very hard to be kind to all around me. This past summer, my grandkids observed me while I was very patient and considerate to service employees while vacationing. I extended these same acts of kindness to the grocery store staff, bank staff, restaurant personnel, and shoe store staff. I find that when I consciously act kinder to my family, friends, and community members, I am treated with more respect. I also consciously modeled this healthy behavior with my grandkids when they stayed with us in the summer. I was thrilled when my grandkids commended me for this healthy behavior!
Applying Kindness at School
As a substitute teacher, I created a variety of reading and writing learning modules for primary grade students that include human acts of kindness with the following topics:
- Family Values and Classroom Team Building
- Goal Setting and Extreme Weather
- Rattlesnakes and Venomous Snakes
- Winter Weather and Gratitude
- Bios of Famous People
- Solar System and Earth Day
- Soil, Conservation, and Waste Management
- Fractional Relationships Through Art
- Resume Writing
- How to Self-Publish and Enter Writing Contests
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