Kindness Chain

We have been working on so many skills this year, but KINDNESS is something we keep coming back to.  Wonder is one of those books that really gets kids thinking and talking – and a big topic we find ourselves discussing is CHOOSING KIND.  It’s in every aspect of this book and the conversations we have surrounding kindness within the book is really quite something.  They are really in tune with the characters and how they must feel.  The various different points of views help them to see things that they may not see otherwise, which really helps them to get a clear idea of what it means to the various characters within the book.  We have created a way to show other kids in the school our kind acts – by writing them on a piece of paper and adding them to the kindness chain that starts at our classroom door.  The idea is that other kids will notice the chain and ask one of my kids what it is.  When that happens, my kids will explain that we write our kind deeds on this paper and add it to our chain.  Do you want to do one?  Over the weekend, I put the chain up in the hallway.  It goes from our classroom down the hallway, toward the 200 wing.  It currently stops just after room 302.  Our goal:  GET IT TO GO AROUND THE SCHOOL!  I can’t wait to see what happens.