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Showing Kindness

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Learning Objectives

  • 1Tell the difference between kind and unkind actions
  • 2Sort examples into the correct group
  • 3Choose caring ways to treat other people
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Mini Lesson

Kindness is a small action that helps another person feel cared for, safe, or included. Kindness can be quiet and simple, but it matters a lot.

What is kindness?

  • Kindness means using your words and actions to help, include, comfort, or encourage someone.
  • Kind actions can be as small as sharing, taking turns, helping, or using gentle words.
  • You do not have to do something big to be kind.

What is unkind?

  • Unkind actions hurt feelings, leave people out, or make a problem bigger.
  • Laughing at someone, grabbing, name-calling, or ignoring a person who needs help are unkind choices.
  • Even when we feel upset, we can still choose kind actions.

Easy ways to show kindness

  • Share a tool, toy, or turn.
  • Invite someone to join.
  • Help clean up or pick something up.
  • Say kind words like please, thank you, or Are you okay?
A child showing kindness by sharing crayonsTwo children sit at a table. One child offers a crayon to the other child, showing a kind action.Sharing can be kind.
A kind action can be as simple as sharing something someone needs.
Kindness helps people feel includedThree children stand together. A heart and speech bubble show kind words and inclusion.Kind words help people feel included.Come play!
Kind words can help another person feel welcome and included.
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Ask yourself: "Will this action help someone feel better, safer, or included?

Vocabulary
Kindness
Words and actions that help others feel cared fore.g. Sharing is an act of kindness.
Unkind
Words or actions that hurt someonee.g. Name-calling is unkind.
Share
To let someone use what is yourse.g. I share my crayons with my friend.
Include
To make someone feel part of the groupe.g. I include everyone in our game.
Encourage
To say words that help someone feel bravee.g. I encourage my friend to try again.
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