This book sums up what I think is the best goal we can all have in 2019. Are you in?
For a chance to win this book in our random drawing, submit a comment letting me know if you and your students are joining the quest for kindness. (Update: Congratulations to Debbie, our lucky winner!) Submit your comment by Wednesday, January 16, to be included in our drawing. Good luck!
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Kindness rocks!
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We are definitely working on kindness and will be participating in The Great Kindness Challenge.
Our whole district is working on kindness. We have been promoting kindness for 2 years now.
We are really trying to work on kindness. It is a main area of focus this year.
Yes, we have a school wide theme and teachers all have shirts with Be Kind and some students have purchased as well.
We have an assembly on kindness the 15th of January.
Our class motto is always “Be kind and loving”
Kindness is a character trait that we are focusing on for sure.
Yes, absolutely!
We are working on kindness in our classroom! We would love this book as a tool to include!
We are always working on ways to show kindness to one another. This book would make a great addition to our classroom.
We practice by treating others like we want to be treated.
Kindness is our biggest goal in our classroom this school year …. Before the winter break, each student created a Kindness Countdown chain … countdown to the winter break with one kind deed each day – it was wonderful seeing the students excited about doing something kind for someone without expecting anything in return. Many students caught on that it felt good to do something kind for someone else…. #bestfeelingever!
We are on a quest to find and be more kind. We are on a lookout for kindness in the classroom.
Thanks for sponsoring this! Kindness counts!
One of our building goals this year is positive behavior and recognition of this. With that comes being kind to others. I have been looking for books all year to help emphasize and teach the importance of kindness. This would fit right in with my theme. Thank you!
This is the second year we are working on being kind. I don,t have many books and this would be a great addition
This book would be a great addition to our Kindness Challenge we have started. In our classroom we have Kindness Challenges to work on each day and sticker awards to add to our individual charts (myself included). Thanks for sharing!
Kindness has been one the main focuses in our classroom this year. We will be participating in the kindness challenge.
Always
Absolutely. We should always show love & kindness for each other.
We are definitely focusing on kindness this year! Our school-wide theme this year is even “Kindness Rocks!”
Kindness is an area of focus for us this year and I’ll be participating in the challenge!
I am totally on board in promoting kindness in my three year old preschool classroom! As a matter of fact, I just hung a canvas in my classroom that says Be Kind! I read it to my students and explained what “Be Kind” means to me. I try to teach my young students to treat everyone kindly. I hope that learning kindness early on sets a good example for the years ahead of them ????????
Kindness is a part of our DAILY lessons! Yes, we will be participating in the kindness challenge.
We are always trying to come up with activities that focus on kindness whether it be making sandwiches for our homeless population, leaving notes of appreciation for our veterans and firefighters, or whatever it may be. Kindness is so important!
I work in a preschool classroom. We have a “kindness jar” and anytime someone is caught doing something kind they get to add a paper clip to the kindness jar. We love teaching kindness in our classroom!
Yes, kindness is a part of the daily “routine”. We work on incorporating it in all aspects of life.
Yes, we are encouraging kindness not only in the classroom, but everywhere they go.
Oh Yes, I just signed us up for the Kindness Challenge. It is never too early to recognize and show kindness to others.
Kindness is always at the top of our list.
We are signed up for the Kindness Challenge! Many classes have already been working on promoting kindness and service projects and we are excited to celebrate kindness for a whole week and inspiring us to continue being kind everyday.
My Pre K class will be participating and I hope all grade levels will be joining us.
Yes! We will be participating in the kindness challenge.
Absolutely! The world needs more people focused on kindness.
Yes! Our school participates in the kindness challenge.
Yes! My preschoolers, as well as their parents, are learning about how “Kindness Counts” this month with the hope that we can continue throughout the rest of the year.
Kindness wins when we live in a world that has hurtful things.
Yes- we are working on being kind each day.
We end our day every day with a Kindness cheer. We sit in a circle and pass a little first bump from friend to friend u til it goes all the way around the room. As we first bump we say the words, “Be kind to one another”
We’d love to have this book in our class.
M Gray
We are working on kindness by becoming a classroom family, working together, helping each other, and being kind to others.
We are working on Growth Mindset practices and our focus this month is empathy!
I always encourage my students to have courage and be kind 🙂
As part of a LIM school, I encourage kindness and great leadership skills in my class always!
My classrooms are starting the new year by implementing kindness toward others everyday.
Yes! We work on kindness daily and will continue to do so!
I will be working on Kindness with my class.
Our school practices kindness through our “Fill someone’s Bucket” campaign. Students write kind notes for classmates.
Kindness is one of the most important lessons I can teach. I make sure to include it in lessons daily.
Not only are our students committed to kindness we utilize many foems of character building activities in our clasdrooms. Our staff each month addresses, sharing, caring, kindness respect and much more through curiculum and center activities. Our school as a whole has an ongoing campaign to each month recognize minimum of 1 student, 1 parent and 1 staff member for being a shing example of being safe kind andresponsibile. We are a Montessori school so it is also part of our program always. So a book such as Try A Little Kindness would certainly be well used.
We have worked on thankfulness at thanksgiving then on to respect and reflection how if we had a second chance to handle a situation over would we change our action. now we are working on empathy, kindness and mindfulness.
Kindness is the most important lesson our kids can learn. Always looking for new ways to get the message across:)
We will definitely be joining the Great Kindness challenge. My kiddos are already pretty kind to one another and will support each other and be happy for their classmates’ successes, but would definitely love to branch out and promote kindness around the whole school, at home, and in their own communities
Our school is definitely working on kindness. My class looks for kindness among classmates and nominates a peer for a kindness award. The last person to receive the award nominates a classmate and presents that person the award and explains why they nominated their friend/classmate.
We are definitely working on the quest for kindness! We had a discussion about it this week during circle time.
We just finished a week on kindness, what it is and why it is important.
Treat others as you’d like to be treated still holds true……everyone likes to be treated with kindness…….
We are always striving for kindness in kindergarten and learning new ways to be kind to each other.
Our school had a kindness assembly in December, and the challenge is for us to achieve 5,000 acts of kindness. We are kicking off the challenge this month.
I plan to invite my students in joining me in the 28 day kindness challenge for the month of February!
We will definitely be reinforcing “kind words and actions” during this challenge!
My class will be participating because I think it is a wonderful idea to work on being kind to others. We will be discussing what kinds of acts of kindness we can do and what words will be best to use.
We do a kindness and/or service project every month. Last month we made dog biscuits for all the dogs we see on our walks in the neighborhood. This month we are collecting Lego’s to send to a teacher in Mongolia for her students to do STEM projects with.
We signed up to do the kindness challenge and we will see how many things on the list we can mark off and then some! Even the smallest things can be so amazing.
I homeschool my special needs daughter and kindness & inclusion are a huge part of our lessons and social skills training. We would love to have this book!
We are not in the kindness challenge, but we do work on being kind all of the time.
I signed my family up for the family edition and just emailed my school’s principals and my daughter’s school principal and teacher so that our schools will do the Kindness Challenge as well! Looking forward to it!