Topics to help with incorporating kind action at the primary level include:
Kindness Activities
There are so many fun activities that can be used in a primary classroom to nurture and celebrate kindness.
Bucket Fillers
The “bucket filling” metaphor helps students understand why they feel the way they feel and guides them to help understand the impact of their actions on others.
Using Kind Words
Mr. Parker talks about important ways to be kind with our words. He reminds us that our actions and our words have consequences. He goes over 4 steps: Recognize and name that feeling; think about how we are going to give our message, then talk respectfully when giving the message, last is do, behave yourself in a way that is kind.
Kindness Mice
The mice leave postcards for the class with messages designed to get students thinking about acts of kindness they can perform.
Wrinkled Heart
Students explore the longlasting effects of unkind behaviours with several books and follow-up activities.
Northern Birthday Box
Classes create a birthday box to send to a child in a northern Canadian community.
Some videos on the topic of kind action:
Be A Watering Can
The Girl and the Cloud
Video about kindness
