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You’ll legitimately start cracking up when your class begins forming a line just to spread kindness! If only students could line up this effortlessly all the time, right? 🙂
Materials
1. Kindness Compliments Printables – FREE, Teachers Pay Teachers
2. Kindness Read Aloud (Suggestions below)
3. Tape
4. Writing Utensils
How to Implement Kindness Compliments
1. Choose a read aloud you feel promotes kindness in your classroom.
2. Brainstorm kind words students can use to compliment one another.
3. Students write their name in the middle of the heart/star.
4. Tape the heart/star to each student’s back.
5. Students walk around and write a compliment on their friend’s heart/star.
6. Each student removes their heart/star to read the compliments!
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My Favorite Kindness Read Alouds
We’re All Wonders by R.J. Palacio
The Jelly Donut Difference: Sharing Kindness with the World by Maria Dismondy
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer
The concept is so simple and can be completed in any grade level. I love watching my students’ faces light up when they read all the nice things their classmates wrote about them!
I’ve been incorporating Kindness Compliments into my classroom for several years now, and this activity is truly one of my favorites. My students go CRAZY for it every time, and yours will too!
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