Engage: Use a topic web to brainstorm ideas about what "kindness" means to the children. In the middle of a large oval write the word kindness. As the children provide ideas, definitions, examples, write them on lines that you draw going out from the oval.
Revisit: After reading a book selection of your choice, discuss how the main character, or group of characters, were or were not kind or helpful.
Extention: The children can illustrate a page showing a time they showed kindness to someone. "I was kind when I..." Use one or more of the following activities to solidify the concept of kindness.
Literature
Jamaica Tag-Along by Juanita Havill
Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt
Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michelemaria Surat
Matthew and Tilly by Rebecca C. Jones
The Quarreling Book by Charlotte Zolotow
Fish is Fis by Leo Lionni
Frederick by Leo Lionni
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