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Cultivating social-emotional skills such as gratitude, empathy, and kindness is essential in early childhood.
Kath
10 Kids
Understanding and feeling compassion is essential for healthy relationships and contributes to reducing incidences of bullying in classrooms. Exploring what compassion means through creating acrostic poems will provide students the opportunities to explore a word and its meaning.
Kindness
Self-acceptance is embracing who you are, without any qualifications, conditions, or exceptions. This activity explores positive affirmations. Affirmations will help train your mind to stop over-focusing on the negative and instead embrace the good, valuable, or positive about yourself the less desirable!
Exploring an attitude of gratitude requires students to look at their situations from a point of appreciation. Engaging in a class activity of ABC Gratitude helps students to identify people, events and surrounds that they are thankful for and reflect on the positives in their lives!
Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty is a great book about a boy named Andy who creates a friendship with a wounded lion. Students can discuss why the lion was grateful to Andy and explore what gratitude feels like making meaningful personal connections.
Building an attitude of gratitude requires students to look at their situations from a point of appreciation rather than from a deficit view.
