In the classroom we have created some living charts that are reminders of how we agree to take care of ourselves, take care of each other, and take care of our place/materials. We are well into school and are still adding ideas each day! This fine tunes how we want it to be in our classroom so we can reach our hopes and dreams by working hard and helping our brains grow.
We have been reading some great books to stimulate conversations about this.
One of my favorites is Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson.
This is a story about a girl who isn't kind to a new classmate. She realizes too late that she won't have a chance to make things better. It's a great conversation starter about being kind no matter what.
When we read this book, each time the main character is unkind I crumple a little bit of a paper heart. At the end the heart is all crumpled and we try to smooth it out...we realize that we can say sorry and try to make things better, but when we are unkind there are still wrinkles on people's hearts.
Another well-loved and impactful book is If Everybody Did by Jo Ann Stover.
This is a great book for realizing that if one person does something negative, it might not seem like too big of a deal. But if everybody does that thing, it can have a big negative impact.
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