Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
Lesson Length: 20 - 30 mins
Topic: Kindness
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.
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What does it physically feel like when someone is kind to you?
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What does it feel like to do kind things for others?
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Allow students to be “Kindness Kids” by performing acts of kindness using the Kindness Checklist!
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Activity:
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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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.
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Have students create a comic Kindness Checklist using their own avatar and kind actions.
Closure:
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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.
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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.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
- Suggested Readings:
- Kindness Makes Us Strong by Sophie Beer.
- Be Kind by Zietlow Miller.
Suggested Content Packs: