Pages offer visual cues and guiding words for each choice, and space for an illustration to accompany the writing. Keep them the back of your journal to use when you complete a service project or act of kindness. Share kindness ideas with your kids and show them that kindness matters. This is a great time to discuss random acts of kindness. Youve laid to rest many friends and foes,carving each stone with equal care, but youre old now, and youve lost much of your youthful vigour. Celebrated from august 2531, the week is a perfect way to get students thinking about how they can focus on kindness during the new school year. Writing prompts may instruct you to write about fiction or nonfiction. Youll love these fun ideas for kids writing prompts to use as creative sparks to get young imaginations writing in no time. I have a collaboration poster project, a kindness activity they can do for each other, and an openended kindness coloring page. Jul 12, 2018 if you want to become a better writer, the best thing you can do is practice writing every single day. I have come to like each one of my students very much. Include the details and why it is so memorable and how it has impacted your life. Each kindness worksheet books about kindness, elementary.
Today, i have 3 kindness activities you can do with your students. This teacher reduces bullying by teaching kindness ripple. Have each group brainstorm and record their ideas for paying kindness forward. Classmate chloe turns away from mayas attempts to befriend her. Help your students learn about character and kindness with this engaging writing and display project. This is somewhat of a challenge for my teaching buddies. This is what their character must overcome and resolve using kindness.
Celebrate kindness with these free writing prompts. These free kindness writing prompts are a great way to keep your children learning and caring about each other. Interactive read aloud of each kindness by jacqueline woodson. Each year, people around the world celebrate positive thinking day on september th. Auggie wants the reader to know that know matter what you look like we are all unique in our on way. Eventually the new girl, maya, stops coming to school. Injecting random acts of kindness into daily life is a great way for a person to brighten his or her attitude, as well as to help others. Children can use their thoughts and feelings with these kindness. The popular this or that game is now available as a writing prompts journal, giving students direction when writing opinions. Kindness writing prompts for kindergarten natural beach living.
I began reading each kindness by jacqueline woodson. Get the kids involved, and make each page beautiful. To help you brainstorm, we put together this list of 365 creative writing prompts to give you something to write about daily. On a piece of paper, write a story about a good deed someone does for another and how each person felt before and after the act of kindness. Each kindness printables, classroom activities, teacher. Kindness activities for kids kindness project natural. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world. To learn more, visit my blog, out of this world literacy. Ask students for examples of kindness that they have witnessed, been the recipient of or acted upon themselves. Whether youre looking for a writing craftivity for valentines day or you need a project for random acts of kindness week, youre in the right spot.
This critical thinking interactive read aloud of each kindness by jacqueline woodson provides the thoughtprovoking questions essential to every interactive. Reflect on the ripple effects of the kind act and celebrate the kindness expressed by the students. Mar 21, 20 since this book read aloud and discussion, my students have brought up each kindness often and have made connections to their lives as well as other books. The writing prompt activity is my absolute favorite. Were all wonders activities teaching tidbits with jamie. When a strange new girl comes to her school, chloe and her friends dont play or talk with her. And every time maya asks if she can play with chloe and the other girls, the answer is always no. One clumsy foot in front of the other, teetering on each step and grasping the railing, i slowly climbed. Write a about a true random act of kindess that you experienced in your life.
Each group should take five minutes to list as many ideas as they can and then pass it forward to the next group who reads their ideas and adds new ideas. World kindness day is the perfect time to practice kindness, whether its toward family members, friends, coworkers, or strangers. Discuss the impact of these kindness acts, how they impact the individual person and other people. While many of the activities and exercises are perfect for world kindness day, the random acts of kindness foundation also has a list of 10 easy activities you can do to celebrate the holiday.
Kindness writing prompts by literature daydreams tpt. Each kindness printables, classroom activities, teacher resources. This prompt will present a scenario andor conflict that will be central to that students writing. Be kind to humankind week be kind to humankind week is all about celebrating kindness in the world, with the belief that kindness can be contagious. These kindness crafts will look great on your bulletin board and will fill your classroom with thoughtful reminders about the importance of being. Students write short narratives showing these character traits. Divide students into three groups and assign each one of the columns on the printable. In the writing prompt, i have my students explore why they are wonders and what makes each one of them unique. Random acts of kindness week writing prompt writing your life. Kindness writing prompts for kindergarten natural beach. Lesson plan for each kindness by jacqueline woodson.
It sends a simple, yet powerful message that readers are unlikely to forget. This differentiated science and writing project is a fun way to assess understanding of your class study of inherited traits and learned. Daily kindness writing prompts these are daily quick writes and writing prompts for teachers to use during the 21 day kindness challenge. Great resource to hold students accountable by writing about what they are. Teaching kids about kindness starts with parents and caregivers. Complete the letter to your younger self writing prompt. This free kindness activity will increase your childs writing skills and awareness on being kind to others.
Chloe doesnt really know why she turns away from the new girl, maya, when maya tries to befriend her. Ask students to reread their response and think about how it connects to the theme of the movie. Each writing prompt challenges your students to consider one aspect of character for example charity or honesty. Chloe and her friends wont associate with the new girl, maya. In the book auggie said, that everyone is a wonder. These positive thinking day journal prompts are designed especially to help elementary school and middle school kids learn the value of looking on the. Reading and writing activities for each kindness mentor text by. Were going to rewrite the story that jacqueline woodson told by imagining that chloe did show some kindness to maya. Review the acts of kindness described by the students.
Kindness writing prompts for kindergarten free writing prompts. Kindness writing prompts for kids, kindness writing prompts for kindergarten, your children will love sharing kindness with these coloring, drawing and writing prompts. Each kindness is a book that can make the world a better place, but only if it is shared. Kindness is a positive act and feeling that helps make the world a more positive place. Below are daily writing prompts for the month of march. Help spread kindness in your classroom and throughout your entire school with these 4 activities. Worksheet to accompany the book each kindness by jacqueline woodson. Each student takes home a one page template to fill out with a family member. Luckily, there are plenty of ways that your students can help someone out in the future. Students started coming in on mondays asking what the kindness prompt for the day was going to be. Give this to a teenager to help them learn to express themselves and think about life.
If the prompt does not specify, feel free to make up a story or draw from personal experience. Each year we take the month of december to really focus on random acts of kindness and caring for each other. Each kindness and the other side by jacqueline woodson are perfect picture books for teaching point of view, theme, comparing themes, how a characters actions contribute to the sequence of events, and comparing plots setting and themes by the same author. They are aimed to help teach them about kindness in your classroom. Each kindness is about a little girl named maya that is bullied due to her torn and dirty clothes. Each time a student experiences an act of kindness in giving or receiving they write or draw their kindness on a small index card and post it on the board or insert it in the box. No author notes allowed, since the story should stand on its own and contain all the explanation needed. A few years ago we began making class books about random acts of kindness. As she said, each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world. After chloe learns an important lesson about the value of simple kindness from her teacher, she wonders if.
Each kindness, by the newbery honorwinning author jacqueline woodson after tupac and d foster, feathers, show way. Kindness writing prompts includes 12 writing prompts that can be used throughout the school year. The activities go with the book, each kindness by jacqueline woodson. The coloring pages can be used for a variety of ages and projects. Writing prompts are useful because we know sometimes it can be hard to think of what to write about. Consider your handwriting, or a characters handwriting. The quick writes can be done daily to help students come up with a list of the acts of kindness they will do each day.
Kindness in the classroom whimsy workshop teaching. The majority of the prompts are related to the various events on our march events calendar. Aug 20, 2014 write the daily prompt on a kitchen white board or chalkboard and have everyone write their answer below it throughout the day. While this story doesnt have a traditional happy ending, it can open the door to a thoughtful classroom discussion about friendship and kindness. Jan 23, 2018 check out the infographic below the prompt to see what different elements of your lettering might say about your personality. Each kindness, by jacqueline woodson, and more the new. Each kindness is no different than her other stories in this way, but it does tell a different story. Written by jacqueline woodson and illustrated by e. May 03, 2018 its never too early to start writing, and so weve created this fun list of 300 creative kids writing prompts for teacher and parents to use.
Once they finished writing, they shared out their ideas. This week were going to take ownership of kindness and collectively decide to create a culture of kindness that will continue when this crisis is over. Some of the dates include two different writing prompts to choose from. Revisit the writing prompt about kindness that the students did before watching the movie. It tells the story of a young girl who learns the importance of her actions. Thank you all for downloading and for being kind to every student and adult in school. Each kindness and the other side by jacqueline woodson are perfect picture books for teaching point of view, theme, comparing themes, how a characters actions contribute to the sequence of events and comparing plots setting and themes by the same author. Albert invites each student to state a kindness that he or she has done. Grade 5 creative writing prompt good deeds with sample. Kindness is catching create a kindness board or kindness box in the class. Note that evaluating personalities via handwriting probably isnt an exact science and some correlations may not apply. These events include birthdays, holidays, monthly celebrations, and important dates in history. This very special day is a time to focus on all the good in the world and to look for the silver linings.
May 31, 2018 the 10 students in my memoirwriting class are inmates at the dade correctional institution, a mediumsecurity mens prison near miami. Help spread kindness in your classroom and throughout your entire school. This writing prompt will make your students think about how they can help others in the future. Make a gift by purchasing a new journal, or even just a spiral notebook, and add one writing prompt to the top of each day.