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    Kindness Checklist

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    Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

    Lesson Length: 20 - 30 mins

    Topic: Kindness

    Grade Level: 4, 5, 6

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will practice kindness while completing a Kindness Comic Bingo Card.

    Know Before You Start: Have copies of the Kindness Checklist Comic printed for students to use throughout the week.

    Hook:

    • Discuss kindness.

      • What does it physically feel like when someone is kind to you?

      • What does it feel like to do kind things for others?

      • Allow students to be “Kindness Kids” by performing acts of kindness using the Kindness Checklist!

    Activity:

    • Read and discuss the sample comic.

    • Give students their own copy of the comic to use throughout the week. Challenge them to complete as many kindness activities as possible before the end of the week. 

    • Have students create a comic Kindness Checklist using their own avatar and kind actions.

    Closure:

    • At the end of each day, ask students to share which acts of kindness shown in the comic they accomplished. Discuss how it felt to accomplish these tasks. 

    • At the end of the week, students can journal their kindness experiences. 

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
    • Provide sentence frames for whole group conversation.
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

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