These Act of Kindness Cards come from a deck of cards created by a group called Life Vest Inside.
Each card has an act of kindness on it.
Here are some examples -
*Greet the maintenance staff in your school. Find out their names (They are super awesome - you’ll see!)
*Help someone prepare for a test. You’ll be surprised by how much you end up learning while you’re at it!
*Listen in class! You just may learn something new ;) And remember, your teachers love you more than you know.
I’ll ask a student to choose a card, and then I’ll write the act of kindness onto the Promethean board.
My students will write the act of kindness in their writing notebooks.
Then they’ll put that act of kindness into practice.
They’ll write stories about what happens when they practice a random act of kindness.
I can’t wait to read their stories!
But as I sit at my teaching table late this afternoon, with only the sound of a vacuum cleaner humming in a distant classroom, I remember that my students already practice random acts of kindness.
This morning Natalia opened her book bag. She is one of the many students I teach from Central America. She looked at me with a sparkle in her brown eyes and pulled out a picture and said, “I made this for you this weekend, Mr. Barton.”
It’s a picture of a blue whale swimming in a splash of colors.
Her smile is those colors.
Her heart is the blue whale’s heart, which, by the way, is the biggest heart to have ever existed in the world.
As I work to teach kindness to my students, I know - they are my teachers and I am their student.
And I’m humbled.
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