Activities on kindness
31 Kindness Activities for Kids
Math. Writing. Kindness. What do these three things have in common?
They're all skills to be taught, practiced, and reinforced. Of course, we also mess up and learn from our mistakes with all three. And they're all things we can get better at, no matter our age.
Today, we're rounding up one month's worth of kindness activities for kids.
Make sure you stay on track by downloading and printing our complete calendar of kindness activities listed below.
Before you continue, we thought you might like to download our FREE 21-Day Family Gratitude Challenge. Make this challenge a part of your night routine or family dinner time for the next 21 days (that's how long it takes to build a habit).
A Note Before We StartKindness must be intrinsically motivated.
According to Psychology Today, several studies have shown that "providing children with a reward for behavior is almost like telling them that the behavior itself is not much fun. So if you want to promote intrinsic motivation—if you want to teach your kids that learning in school or helping others are enjoyable in and of themselves—using rewards might be the wrong strategy."
Furthermore, those studies found that when the rewards stop, the positive behaviors often stop; however, when rewards weren't offered in the first place, the behaviors often continue.
Even praise should be used sparingly, as too much can create external motivation—though it shouldn't go unused. Instead, reserve your feedback and encouragement for when it's most beneficial.
(These studies were primarily done with neurotypical children; speak to an expert about your child's individual needs.)
Keep this in mind when going through each activity. Now, let's get started!
Day 1: Teach the Difference Between Kind and NiceOn day one of your month of kindness activities for kids, teach them the difference between "nice" and "kind."
- Nice: doing what is expected to please those around you
- Kind: showing empathy and being willing to stand up for what is right
Create a poster with a column for "kind" and a column for "nice. " Have the kids write suggestions on sticky notes (or offer pre-written options) and put them in the column where they think the options belong.
Discuss each note to agree if they are in the correct columns. It's okay to put a few in the middle—context can matter.
Once you've agreed upon which notes go in which column, hang the poster on the wall.
Day 2: Teach T.H.I.N.K."T.H.I.N.K." means before you say anything, you should ask yourself if what you're about to say is:
- True
- Helpful
- Inspiring
- Necessary
- Kind
Consider showing your kids an actual social media post (or a made-up one for younger children). Look at the post and comments and have the kids determine how much the person used T.H.I.N.K before they posted—how many letters did they get?
Day 3: Write a Letter to SomeoneMany grown-ups don't realize how impactful they are in a child's life. This next kid-friendly kindness activity teaches children gratitude while making someone’s day.
Ask your kids, "Name an adult (other than me) who is important to you.? Why?" When they decide—and this does need to be their decision so their gratitude is genuine—have them write a note or draw a picture that tells the adult specifically why they appreciate them.
Letters can be mailed or hand-delivered depending on the parameters you set. If you are a teacher, consider asking your kids to write a letter to another staff member at school.
Day 4: Teach About EmpathyYou can teach your child empathy from day one by modeling it for them. As your kids get older, you can help them identify emotions, embrace diversity, and understand current events through the lens of kindness.
Spend this day focusing on teaching empathy skills—and keep this up as time goes on.
Day 5: VolunteerRather than saying your kids must volunteer at a specific location, talk to them about what matters to them. Animals? Older adults? The environment?
Once they've decided who to help, research locations where you can volunteer together.
After you've finished your day of volunteerism, discuss the experience with your children. If the volunteer spot was a good fit, consider going back regularly. If it wasn't, try somewhere new!
Day 6: Show Kindness to WorkersTurn an average day of errands into a kindness activity for your kids by making them aware of their surroundings and behavior.
If you go to a store and see items on the floor or tables that customers should have picked up or left tidy, your kids could pick them up. If they don’t know where items go, they can place them in a neat pile.
Have your child take the lead at checkout. (Be sure you've already practiced things you say to a store worker.) Positive interactions can make a worker's day!
If your child is older, fill them in on what a day in customer service can involve. Ask how they'd want to be treated if this was their job and remind them to think about that when they're out.
Day 7: Help Other KidsOn this day, teach your children how to help other kids.
You can create a “partner project” where each child reads a story or learns a skill, which they then need to teach their partner. You can also encourage older kids to help younger kids with schoolwork.
When kids help other kids meet their goals and learn new skills, they learn patience, kindness, and responsibility.
Day 8: See a Play or MusicalKeep an eye out for performances in your area. Read their synopses and determine if kindness could be a theme. If the play has a relevant online study guide available, even better!
A few live theatre options to help teach kindness (and frequently performed) are:
- A Christmas Carol (Note: there are versions for younger audiences, which are far shorter than the original.)
- High School Musical
- Puffs! (Note: there's a version for younger audiences and a version for older ones. Make sure you know which one you're seeing.)
People who grow plants are involved in their entire life cycles. For kids, this kindness activity may be the first time they've ever done something like it and they learn how everything needs love and attention.
Try to choose a hardy plant (e.g. succulents), particularly for younger or more forgetful kids. Make the plant their full responsibility, supervising only as necessary.
If the plant dies? This is a time for a growth mindset, not shame. Even the best gardeners' plants die from time to time. Talk about what may have gone wrong (and whether or not it was in the child's control) and try again with a new plant.
Day 10: Create a Compliment BoardTruly effective kindness activities for kids will challenge children to dig deep and really think about what they appreciate about others. A compliment board can be a great avenue for generating kind thinking patterns.
Create a spot in your house or classroom where children can put notes saying something positive about, or giving thanks to, someone else. If you're in a classroom, you could use envelopes for individual students.
Leave this up for the rest of the month or longer if you like.
These notes should be sincere and never forced; they should be written when someone wants to say something kind.
Try to keep it from becoming a competition. Perhaps make the notes anonymous or decide ahead of time who will receive compliments from the rest of the group that day or week.
Note to teachers: Is there someone who'll never get these notes? Get to the root of the issue and make sure it's fixed before starting this activity.
Don't forget to download our FREE 21-Day Family Gratitude Challenge and make this challenge a part of your family's routine!
Day 11: Create Growth Mindset RocksGrowth mindset rocks are stones kids paint and write messages on. The message could be something as simple as "You rock!" or something more profound.
Place the painted rocks in a public location (with permission) or your yard with a sign telling people they can take one.
Day 12: Play a Cooperative GameWhat better activity for teaching kids kindness than a good old-fashioned game?
A cooperative game is a game or puzzle where you must work as a team. Winning only happens through active listening and group decision-making. Some of these games are:
- For younger kids: Outfoxed!, Friends and Neighbors: The Helping Game, Gnomes at Night
- For older kids: Mysterium, Forbidden Island
There are books about kindness for every age group and they don't have to be totally on the nose to be effective. Find books kids can relate to and be prepared to discuss kindness using the book.
Some books may take longer to read. Treat these like you're in a book club and space the reading out over the month.
You can find the theme of kindness in a variety of books, including:
- For young kids: The Rabbit Listened, Last Stop on Market Street, The World Needs More Purple People
- For tweens or teens: To Kill a Mockingbird, Wonder, A Wrinkle in Time
One of the most effective kindness activities for kids is discussing diversity and more importantly inclusivity in an open and honest manner. While you should focus on similarities, it's essential to acknowledge differences exist.
Explain what you can. If a question stumps you, research it in real-time. Admitting you don't know everything models a growth mindset.
Discuss what we should do or say if we notice someone different than us and give kids the opportunity to ask you questions in a safe space or do their own research.
Day 15: Discuss Misguided KindnessSometimes an act of kindness may not be as kind as we think.
For instance, someone may assume a person with a visible disability needs help. Author Rebekah Taussig discusses this topic in an article for Time. You could summarize the article for younger kids and have older ones read it themselves.
Other acts of "misguided kindness" can be based on assumptions about race. For example, complimenting someone's English or touching someone's hair to say how much you like it can be unkind.
Even giving someone a hug they don't want can be an act of misguided kindness as it invades their personal space.
Day 16: It's Science Time!While kindness is about being selfless, there is a selfish aspect to it: When you do something kind, you feel good. This is because your brain releases the "happy chemicals" of serotonin, oxytocin, and dopamine.
On this day, focus on teaching your children or students about how the brain works. We have a lesson plan on neuroplasticity to get you started.
Day 17: Learn About BullyingFor something to be classified as bullying, it must be repeated, intentional, and have a power imbalance of some kind.
Kids should learn the signs of bullying, when and how to intervene, and the causes of bullying behavior.
Learning about the root causes of bullying behavior can help kids choose the kindest routes. Knowing and understanding people, who exhibit these behaviors, are most likely in pain may help stop negative reactions and, instead, find productive ways to use that energy.
Day 18: Watch a Movie About Overcoming ObstaclesInspiring kids movies like Inside Out, Finding Nemo, and even The Karate Kid show characters overcoming obstacles and often those obstacles include unkind people or the desire to be unkind.
After watching your chosen film together, talk about the kindness (and lack thereof) shown in the film. Let the kids guide the conversation.
Day 19: Hang Out With FriendsThere are few better times for kids to practice kindness than when they have to make decisions about activities and solve problems as a team.
If you're a teacher, this could be letting the kids run around outside for a while or giving free play time—teenagers even secretly love being allowed to play! If you're a parent, arrange a playdate or sleepover for your child and a friend or two.
Day 20: Understand What You Can and Cannot Control
Have an open discussion about times you were unkind because of what was happening around you and talk about what you could have done differently. Discuss the importance of acting on what’s in your control and accepting what is not.
Day 21: Play a Competitive GameFind a competitive board game, card game, or video game your whole family enjoys and play it together. Before starting, discuss how to be a good winner—as well as a good "loser".
Don't let your kid win, at least not every time. Instead, allow them to navigate the waters of both winning and losing at a game.
Day 22: Attend a Cultural EventAttend a public event organized by people of a different background than your child or family.
This doesn't necessarily have to be an education-focused event—you can attend a parade, a festival, etc. But, if there is an educational booth available, visiting it can improve this kindness activity for your kids.
Striving to understand people who are different from oneself is an important step toward kindness as it goes deeper than "tolerance" and "acceptance."
Day 23: Find a Pen PalThere are a ton of ways to find pen pals for your kids.
Meeting a new person, without the immediacy of conversation or texting, gives kids time to think about what they want to say before saying it, which can help them internalize this skill.
Day 24: Love YourselfTalk to your kids about why loving yourself is important.
After all, it is much easier to be kind to others when you are kind to yourself. You can discuss the science of this with older children and teens or keep it to the basics with younger ones.
Day 25: Practice MindfulnessMindfulness helps you reconnect with yourself in a meaningful way. In addition, this activity helps kids with kindness because feeling overwhelmed or disconnected can make you lose focus on what matters.
This activity looks different for every person, so you should investigate different mindfulness resources to decide what works best for your children.
This next exercise aims to help kids understand when kindness must be overruled for safety.
There are times when being kind is unsafe and standing up for yourself is more important.
Helping a stranger "look for their dog" in a park? Kind, but unsafe. Letting someone hug you when you're not comfortable with them doing so? Kind to them, unkind to yourself.
This is the day when kids learn to say "no" and leave a situation where something doesn't feel right. Empowering kids to set boundaries allows them to be kind to themselves.
Day 27: Learn First AidYou never know when you may need to help someone—or yourself—when injured. Therefore, learning first aid is a great kindness activity for kids.
If possible, arrange for a professional (such as someone from the American Red Cross) to run this lesson.
Day 28: Find GratitudeWhen you feel grateful for the world around you, you're more likely to take care of yourself and others. There are a ton of ways to show gratitude for things big and small.
Even something as simple as a gratitude journal can go far. Have your kids write one to three things they are grateful for at the end of each day.
Alternatively, you can create a gratitude jar, where kids write what they’re grateful for on slips of paper to place in the jar. Watch as the jar—and their kindness—fills up!
Day 29: Teach Grit and ResilienceIf we're honest, choosing kindness every day is difficult. We don't always want to take the high road—in fact, that low road looks great sometimes.
Grit and resilience are how we push through those times and steer ourselves back to the higher and kinder road.
Day 30: Practice Conflict ResolutionNo matter how many kindness activities kids practice, no one is kind all the time. Even when they are, someone else may not reciprocate. These conflicts can be difficult to navigate.
Spend some time going over "I feel" statements, model conflict resolution skills, and then have the children roleplay these new abilities.
Day 31: ReflectToday, summarize the kids' kindness activities over the past month. Then, work out what your children or students have learned and which types of activities they have preferred.
After wards, keep it going with more acts of kindness, both modeled and practiced, as time goes on.
As a reminder, Big Life Journal encourages you to read, watch, or play anything you plan to engage children in before involving them so you can ensure appropriateness and be prepared to discuss.
Additionally, we recommend vetting individuals or locations for anything involving other people, e. g., pen-pals, store workers, and volunteer positions. We cannot be responsible for any challenges arising from interactions with people involved in these suggestions.
Looking for additional resources to support your child's growth mindset journey? Check out our popular Sibling Kit PDF (ages 5-12)! This printable kit is designed to help your children build a strong bond, mutual trust, and deep connection they will be able to count on for the rest of their lives.
Your children learn how to work through the conflicts, manage their BIG feelings, choose respectful behavior, and build long-lasting mutual trust. And YOU will have a happier and more peaceful home.
Kindness Activities for Every Positive Classroom – Proud to be Primary
Try these six kindness activities for the classroom, including setting goals, random acts of kindness challenge, children’s book ideas, and lesson suggestions.
Kindness Activities to Build a Kind K-2 Classroom
Kindness matters, and it can turn a child’s whole day around. When you have kind children, the day is brighter and more productive. How can we as teachers improve our kids’ behavior and attitudes towards each other and create a pleasant learning environment through teaching kindness?
These six kindness activities for the classroom are easy to implement. I know you and your classroom students are going to love them.
Why Include Kindness Activities?
Kindness activities are just as important as teaching Math, Reading, and other subjects. Kids learn from a multitude of methods on how to behave and how to retain book information. The most important way to teach anything in the classroom is almost always direct instruction.
Unfortunately, some students aren’t seeing kindness in their homes and haven’t been taught by example. So anytime you can take a moment to teach children how to treat others with kindness, you should seize the opportunity. In doing so, you’ll see an improvement in the classroom climate, student behavior, and in your morale.
6 Strategies for Teaching Kindness
1. Brainstorm Kindness Ideas as a Class
Anytime you are introducing a new concept, try to provide a basic understanding of it at the beginning. Some children may not have experience giving or receiving acts of kindness, and you will want them to feel they can quickly meet expectations. They may need you to provide clear examples of what kindness in the classroom looks like. One way is to activate prior knowledge by brainstorming ideas as a class.
Whole Group Brainstorming: Ask an open-ended question such as “What was something kind you saw someone do lately – big or small?” and jot down the responses on the whiteboard or chart paper. Two categories: Big Things and Small Things, so that the children can see that it doesn’t always have to be something big, but that small things count just as much!
Independent Acknowledgement: Pass a notecard out to each child and have them write down something nice done for them lately and how it made them feel. Collect them, and read them aloud for everyone to hear and understand how kindness makes the heart happy.
Bucket filling is a system that encourages students to act independently to fill each other’s invisible buckets by doing kind acts.
2. Random Acts of Kindness
One of the simplest things to encourage students to do is to find opportunities to show each other kindness in random, unexpected ways.
“Complimentary” Notes: Provide sticky notes in a noticeable spot in the classroom for students to take at any time (they’re “complimentary”!). Students can use them to write a compliment or SMILE-a-GRAM to another student and stick it anonymously on someone’s desk when they’re not looking.
Thank-you Notes: Have children think of people who have done something nice for them lately. Let them pick whom they want to say “Thank you.” It could be the lady who serves them lunch at the cafeteria, the bus driver who takes them to school every day, or the older sibling who helped them with their Math homework. Give them an opportunity in class, just a few minutes a week, to write a thank-you note for someone. Encourage students by reminding them that the person they thank will be delighted at the unexpected kindness shown.
3. Acts of Kindness Challenge
Challenge students in the class to meet a goal to do kind things for others regularly. A challenge can motivate and excite kids into completing a task and create a positive habit. In this case, the task would be to recognize when others do something nice for them unexpectedly or to surprise others with random acts of kindness.
Give them goals: You could give them a goal to meet, perhaps 5 acts per week, and a checklist or calendar to help them keep track. When they’ve completed the list or calendar of acts of kindness, they could add a star to a classroom chart or a shape cutout to a classroom bulletin board dedicated to the challenge. The things your kids do randomly for each other might be to sharpen a friend’s dull pencils, take a classmate’s trash for them at lunchtime, or send an anonymous note of encouragement to a peer who needs it.
The Compliment Experiment: Make a point to compliment each child during the day without the other children noticing. At the end of the day, tell the students that you held an experiment all day, that you complimented each child during the day, to see if their attitudes improved throughout the day. Tell them you noticed a change in the classroom atmosphere for the better and that showing kindness could do that. Encourage them to show kindness to others throughout the day themselves and see what a difference THEY can make.
4. Read Books About Kindness
Literature units are a fun way to introduce and expand on topics in a meaningful way. Use a favorite book to teach your students about kindness, such as these. Add them to your list of kindness activities!
The Kindness Quilt: One of my favorite books for K-2 that teaches kindness is The Kindness Quilt by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. In this delightful book, the main character, Minna, is assigned to report on an act of kindness that she does. She can’t decide what to write on, so she ends up making a quilt with many kind acts represented, along with the help of her friends, classmates, and eventually the whole school.
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?: “This heartwarming book encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love by “filling buckets.”
Sharing examples and stories with kids is an excellent way to encourage kindness. Any of these titles would make beautiful additions to your classroom bookshelf!
Check out my list of kindness picture books on Amazon.
5. Kindness Lessons
Lessons about kindness don’t have to take long. A short mini-lesson or discussion during your SEL morning meeting may be all you need. Or, a classroom meeting may be the perfect time to address or introduce what kindness means. If you feel a longer lesson is necessary, here are some ideas for you to check out.
- Inspirational Words: Write this quote from the Dalai Lama on a thinking map: “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Ask students what the quote means, and jot down their interpretations and extensions of the meaning. Give students a writing assignment to describe how we can be kind always. Teach them kindness quotes and have them color them in and display in the classroom.
- Literature-based lessons: Use The Kindness Quilt to teach a lesson on working together to promote kindness, and create a classroom kindness quilt of your own. Or, use the book The Cool Bean to teach a lesson about how being cool means being kind.
- Kindness Role Playing: Children need practice being kind, especially if these examples are not evident in their lives. Give them simple scenarios they can act out or play a kindness game using Kindness Cards.
- Make it an occasion worth celebrating: Make a point yearly to celebrate “National Kindness Day” (February 17th). Here is a plan to encourage acts of kindness for kids.
- For more information and resources, check out the educator resources page at randomactsofkindness.org. There are tons of resources there for each child in your room.
6. Positive Reinforcement with Kindness Notes & Rewards
A well-timed word of praise or a cheerful award can be all it takes to reinforce good behavior. Here are several ideas for ways to positively reward acts of kindness in your classroom.
- Try some of these ideas for when you catch your students in the act of showing kindness to their classmates. Praise and kindness go a long way, as do simple things like coupons, a marble jar, certificates, and brag tags. Read more about these creative and cost-effective rewards.
- Give your students something they can give too! These kindness cards are the perfect way for students to announce their pride in themselves for doing good, and to spread the word and motivate others to do the same.
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FREE Kindness Calendar Poster Kit
Encourage students to complete acts all month long with this FREE Kindness Calendar Poster kit.
This kit gives you over a month of ideas ready for you and all the materials to put together a reusable calendar. Create a kindness challenge together!
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Kindness Classroom Resources
Kindness Lessons & Activities Unit for K-2
Are you looking for detailed lesson plans filled with activities and discussion ideas to help you teach kindness? This Kindness SEL curriculum is teacher-tested and includes five detailed lessons filled with hands-on and mindful activities that teach children about kindness, have them complete a kindness challenge with random acts of kindness, and ways to be a bucket filler.
Through various thought-provoking lessons, discussions, community-building ideas, and engaging activities, children will learn…
- What is Kindness? This lesson teaches kids to understand what kindness is and describe what it means to be a kind kid.
- How to Be Kind to Others: This lesson teaches children to describe and demonstrate ways of being kind to others. They will make efforts to show kindness to others each day.
- Generosity & Giving: This lesson teaches children to describe what generosity and giving means and demonstrate ways of being generous.
- To perform acts during a Kindness Challenge: This lesson teaches children to understand what random acts of kindness are and perform as many acts as they can during a kindness challenge.
- Bucket Filler System: This lesson teaches children to understand the bucket filling system and make an effort to be a bucket filler who helps fill other people’s buckets.
Create meaningful learning opportunities with these additional kindness resources!
Kindness Book Companions
Kindness Classroom Challenge Pack
Digital Kindness Unit for K-2
Kindness Unit for Grades 3-5
Social Emotional Learning Curriculum
Teach children in K-2 essential life lessons when they need it the most with units and activities on emotions, self-regulation, growth mindset, empathy, social awareness, friendship, kindness, respect, and responsibility. Click here to learn more!
Promoting kindness in the classroom is a win-win situation for you and your students, especially with these kindness activities. Everyone will enjoy giving and receiving acts of kindness, and as a teacher, you’ll smile at the uplifting attitudes of your students as they do.
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Summary of extracurricular activities
Grade 2 "D" MBOU gymnasium No. 76
Course "In the world of kind words"
Topic: "Hurry to do good !!!"
Purpose: to form students' ideas about kindness as a human dignity.
Tasks:
- to form the concept of "kindness" in the minds of children;
- reveal the moral content of the good;
- develop adequate evaluation activities aimed at
analysis of one's own behavior and the actions of other people;
- to promote the development of pupils' motivation to commit
good deeds;
- develop a sense of mutual assistance, attentiveness and respect for people, a humane attitude towards nature;
- cultivate mutual respect, polite treatment, the ability to feel, understand yourself and another person.
UUD: Communication development of students:
- encouraging students to express their own opinions;
- the ability to organize students' communication with each other;
- formation of skills to listen to the interlocutor, negotiate, convince him;
- culture of behavior in the educational dialogue.
Regulatory UUD:
- perform an action according to a model and a given rule;
- save the target;
- to control one's activity according to the result;
- adequately understand the assessment of an adult and a peer.
Development of the cognitive sphere:
- the degree of cognitive activity, creativity and independence of students in the classroom;
- the presence and effectiveness of group, collective and individual forms of work of students in the classroom;
- creation of conditions for the manifestation of the abilities of students.
Personal development of students:
- formation of students' responsibility for their activities;
- emotionally positive perception of teaching;
- objective evaluation of performance results;
- reflection.
Extracurricular activities, as well as the activities of students within the lessons, are aimed at achieving the results of mastering the main educational program. But first of all, it is the achievement of personal and metasubject results.
Implementation of extracurricular activities in elementary school also makes it possible to solve a number of very important tasks:
- to ensure a favorable adaptation of the child in school;
- reduce the teaching load of students;
- improve the conditions for the development of the child;
- - take into account the age and individual characteristics of students.
Equipment: cards with the image of the sun and clouds, a soundtrack, envelopes for teams with proverbs, tasks, a tree of "kindness", proverbs about kindness, books for an exhibition, poems about kindness, a crossword puzzle.
Activity:
Teacher: Let's start the lesson with our song. "The road of good. "
Guys, everyone has cards with the image of a sun and a cloud on the table. If you are in a good mood, then raise the sun, and if you are in a bad mood, then raise a cloud.
(I hope that by the end of the lesson everyone will be in a good mood)
And now, let's hold hands together and smile at each other.
Let's smile at the guests too - let's share our good mood with others.
- Guys, I'll read a fairy tale to you now, and you think about what we will talk about today.
"Good boy" W. Breyer
One boy came to the park to shoot birds with a slingshot. It was his favorite pastime. And not far away a blind old man was walking with a cane; he heard that someone unkind was shooting at birds, and called;
- Please! Who's there?
- Well, I am, replied the boy.
- Boy, - said the blind man, - could you walk me home?
- Will you give me three rubles? - the boy asked. - Then I'll get it.
- I only have a ruble . ... - the blind man was confused. - Please take me home.
-Okay, the ruble is also money, - the boy said and took the old man by the arm. He gave his address and off they went.
They came out of the square, they are walking along the street, where there are many passers-by, and passers-by are talking to each other aloud;
- Poor old man. And what a good boy. Probably his grandson.
The boy heard how he was called kind and blushed. And people walked and said:
- Look, what a kind, shy boy: he blushed when he was praised.
Finally he brought the old man home, and he handed him a ruble.
- No, - the boy said, suddenly began to cry and ran.
- Thank you, kind boy! the blind old man called after him.
And the boy cried even harder.
Guys, why do you think he started crying? (he was ashamed). What was it called by passers-by? (kind)
Was he really kind? (No, because he asked for 3 rubles for his good deed?)
Is there any hope that he will become kind? (yeah)
What do you think we are going to talk about today? (about kindness).
What is good? (this is all good, kind, beautiful.)
What is evil? This is something opposite to good: bad, bad, misfortune, misfortune.
We often hear the words: kind person, good deeds, kindness, and we don’t think about what deep meaning is embedded in these words. Today we will try to understand the meaning of the words "good" and "evil" and draw a parallel between these concepts.
Here are cards with personal qualities of a person. We need to divide them into two groups:
Qualities are "helpers" of goodness. Qualities are the "helpers" of evil.
Groups are given cards with the qualities of a person. It is necessary to discuss in the group and attach this quality on the board to the inscription "Good" or to the inscription "Evil"
Good Evil
Love indifference
Empage Aggressivity
Justice Hatred
Westernity Environment
Mercy betrayal
Compassion indifference
Sympathy
,Carry Egoism
Willingness to help Deception
Good and evil are basic ethical concepts. It is the knowledge of good and evil that a person evaluates both his own actions and the actions of other people. Thanks to this, they can maintain good relations with each other, forbid and prevent quarrels, violence, cruelty. Much attention has been paid to this topic in the literature, and not only in stories, but also in poetry. Let's listen to one of them. (Reading by EVA Chepulchenko)
Hurry up to do good, my friend,
Both for friends and for girlfriends,
Sometimes it happens badly for them,
Your kindness will be a miracle for them.
Kindness, like God's grace,
Salvation in life can become,
Friend, do not spare the fire of the soul,
Always hurry to give kindness.
Both a good word and a deed
You know how to apply skillfully,
Do not be sorry to give them to anyone,
Heal their souls with goodness.
Such truth exists:
Do not do good - there will be no evil,
It is difficult to live with resentment in the heart,
know how to pay good for evil.
He who knows how to do good,
Do not dare to do evil,
Give, my friend, give good,
Give thanks for everything.
Good and Evil go side by side in life.
It is known that there is a blessing in disguise.
How good it is when anger is replaced
A smile and kindness come to us.
When in the eyes of people, in their kind word
You will feel the divine light,
Then you are filled with great happiness,
Able to protect from various troubles.
O people, smile more often,
Give the warmth of the soul every moment
And never drain it
That clean, fabulous spring!
What conclusion can you draw after listening to it? (children's answers)
I suggest you solve a crossword puzzle and collect a key word. (each team writes a guess, in a chain)
1. He will not leave you in trouble? (Friend)
2. What is the name of the item that is given as a gift? (Gift)
3. It will make everyone warmer (Smile)
4. What is the feeling when receiving a gift? (Joy)
5. When we are scolded for pranks, we ask ... (Forgiveness)
6. Name one of the qualities that a well-mannered person should possess? (Politeness)
7. What is the magic word that is said when making a request? (Thank you)
And now let's read what word is it? (Kindness)
The word “kindness” (this is our sun) has many related words (rays) (the teacher calls the word, the students try to give the most detailed “decoding”, the teacher attaches the ray to the sun):
kind-hearted - a person with a kind heart, affectionate
good-natured - kind and gentle in character, not malicious
benevolent - wishing well
respectable - decent, worthy of approval - honestly fulfilling his duties
And also kindness is care, understanding, sympathy, love, mercy.
This human quality has always been appreciated, at all times. Do you know proverbs and sayings about kindness and kindness? (Children receive cut into pieces and collect them). We discuss every proverb.
An evil word hurts, but a good word heals.
Warm in the sun, good in mother.
Good deeds color a person.
It is bad for him who does no good to anyone.
Life is given for good deeds.
It is not clothes that adorn a person, but his good deeds.
A good heart is better than wealth.
Without good deeds there is no good name.
-Today I will allow you to do something that I have never allowed. Meet Nastya (doll cut out of paper). Now we will offend her. I will ask you to help me. Remember how you offend each other at recess when you get angry and quarrel. Offending each other, even with a word, we hurt. You will say something offensive to Nastya, and I will hurt her by folding the edge of the paper.
-Look at the doll, has it changed? Was she like this in the beginning? What has changed in her?
- We hurt the doll a lot. Can we change something? How can we fix the situation? (pity the doll, ask for forgiveness, say something nice).
- Let's try to say something nice to her, in the meantime we will smooth out the scars that we left.
(Children take turns calling the words)
- Guys, now look at Nastya, she is already better, but has she become the same as she was at the beginning of the conversation? Why?
Let's try to draw a conclusion: the pain remains in the soul for a very long time, and no compliments can smooth it out. The Russian scientist Pavlov said: "You can kill with a word, you can resurrect with a word." The word is very important in human life.
A kind word heals, but an evil word cripples!
Relaxation. The melody "The Lonely Shepherd" sounds
Everyone please sit down. Dear guests, join the guys!
Close your eyes. Imagine that you are holding a flower of kindness, this flower of kindness is in your palms. Feel how it warms you: your hands, your body, your soul. From it emanates an amazing smell and pleasant music. You feel its warmth and goodness with your fingertips, they become stronger and stronger, they penetrate you and spread like a warm wave over your body. Goodness flows through every cell of your body and goes straight to the heart! Mentally place all the goodness of this flower in your heart. Feel how good enters you, brings you joy. Everything bad dissolves, leaves your hearts. You have new forces: the forces of goodness, health, happiness, love and joy. You are blown by a warm gentle breeze. I want you to remember what you are feeling right now and take it with you when you leave this room! Open your eyes, look at each other and send good thoughts to each other.
Teacher: Now listen to another poem and think about whether this character can be called a true friend and why.
Friend reminded me yesterday, how much good did it to me: the pencil gave me once, (I forgot the pencil case that day), in the wall newspaper, almost everyone, mentioned me. I fell and all the wet - he helped me dry. For a sweet friend, he did not spare the pies: he once gave me a bite, and now he presented an account. It does not attract me, guys, does not entail a friend anymore.
Teacher: Can a friendship fall apart? And for what reasons? Teacher: A friend is a person who worries, worries, worries and rejoices for his friend, that is, he is responsible for another.
Teacher: What are friends for?
If there are friends in the world - everything is fine, everything blooms. Even the strongest wind, even the storm does not bent. We in the rain, and in the snow and in the cold we will have fun. In any weather, we are friends - this friendship cannot be torn. And any of us will answer, everyone who Yun and dare will say: you and I live in the world for good glorious deeds.
We like to be in the company of kind people, but for this we must be kind people ourselves. Let's make with you the rules of kindness, using which we will become truly kind.
(music plays and they make up)
- Help people.
2) Protect the weak.
3) Share the latest with a friend.
4) Do not envy.
5) Forgiving others' mistakes. - *Do good deeds just like that, with good intentions.
- *Love people you know and don't know, don't offend them.
- *Encourage others to treat each other well.
- *Do good not only for relatives and friends, but also for nature and complete strangers!
- *Don't be jealous!
- *Don't be mean!
- *Don't be rude.
Interviewing children. I have prepared a memo with the rules of kindness for you and left space for you to add your own rules. You have a lot more of them.
(on the reverse side) Let's read the commandments in chorus, which we must remember.
REMEMBER: Try not to step on, but to yield.
Do not capture, but give.
Do not show a fist, but stretch out a palm.
Do not hide, but share.
Do not shout, but listen.
Do not tear, but glue.
TRY IT AND YOU WILL SEE HOW WARM, JOYFUL, PEACEFUL YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE AROUND YOU WILL BECOME, WHAT AN AMAZING FEELING WARMS THE HEART, TRY FOR YOURSELF'S SAKE TO DO NO HARM.
- And now I will ask you to answer my questions using gestures. If you agree with the statement, then clap your hands, and if not, raise your hands.
Is it possible to call a kind person who:
• does something useful for people;
• does homework for someone;
• waiting to be called for help;
• takes an old woman across the road;
• feed a homeless kitten;
• will take back the donated item;
- Learning to be truly kind is difficult. The road to kindness is long and hard. Ups and downs, ups and downs, alternations of evil and good await a person on it. A kind person takes care not only of people, but also of nature.
Association.
Today we talked about human quality, about kindness. We have identified the qualities of a good person. What does he look like? (In the sun. A kind person, like the sun, shines, warms, smiles. Everyone is drawn to a kind person, because he gives others his love, affection, care, warmth, attention). A good person does good deeds. It is not enough to want to be kind, you need to learn to do good!
Assembly.
There are many evil ones,
In any human destiny,
And they will only say a kind word -
And it's easier on your heart.
But a kind word is
Not everyone knows how to find it.
To cope with longing for a friend,
Overcome hardships on the way.
No kind word is more important
That cherished word,
But rarely, my friends, nevertheless
We pronounce it aloud.
If someone, someone will help
Your kindness, your smile
You are happy that the day was not spent in vain,
That you live for years not in vain.
Do good, there is no greater joy.
And sacrifice your life and hasten
Not for fame or sweets,
But at the behest of the soul.
Summary of the lesson.
What conclusion did you guys draw from our conversation? (We learned what kindness is and what kind of person can be considered kind in order to become kinder ourselves, that it is good to be kind).
Reflection (Reflection (from Latin reflexio - turning back) is the process of self-knowledge by the subject of internal mental acts and states. The concept of reflection arose in philosophy and meant the process of an individual thinking about what is happening in his own mind.): What did you like in class? Why? Show your mood now.
Let's end our conversation with the song "If you are kind", which was performed by the kind cat Leopold and do a good deed - give our guests our postcards.
Goodbye!
Extracurricular activity "KINDNESS" (case method).
Extracurricular activities (case method).
The course "The way of good".
Class: 2
Theme: "Your actions and other people's actions."
Goals:
highlight the moral side of actions.
2. Contribute education in children of good human relationships, responsiveness and mercy to others, to each other.
3. To make children feel that good is It is joy for others and for yourself.
Planned results:
Cognitive ULD: Activation of intellectual activity of students: establishing the conformity of actions with moral rules, comparison, comparison of characters, their behavior, classification of material on various grounds (identify groups of polite words).
Communication UUD: dialogue, recognition of the possibility of the existence of various points of view and the right of everyone to have their own; expression of opinion and argumentation your point of view; respectful acceptance of other points of view.
Regulatory UUD: 1. The ability and ability to plan one's actions in in accordance with the task and the conditions for its implementation.
2.Introduce necessary adjustments into action after its completion based on its assessment and taking into account the nature of the mistakes made.
Personal UUD: In fostering a friendly and caring attitude towards people, emotional responsiveness, empathy, sympathy.
Course progress:
1. Organizational moment .
If we frown with am,
Kindness will help us.
Come on, children, get together,
And to each other smile!
- Did you smile?
- How pleasant it is to look at a person who smiles with a friendly smile!
- We all smiled, and let life be on a small drop, became happier and kinder.
( The song “Smile” sounds)
The teacher distributes to students invitation cards to classes, according to which students are selected in groups. (pull out cards)
Students sit in groups: " Kindness", "Mercy", "Respect", "Politeness" .
2.Message of topic and purpose lessons.
- We are divided into 4 groups.
- For what?
-So what will we talk about today in our class?
-In class we will talk about actions your and other people, we will learn to give people joy with our actions, to be attentive, we will learn to communicate, to be polite with each other.
- Try to formulate a theme?
- Subject of our lesson: Your actions and those of other people.
- Guys, what do you think why do we need to consider good and bad deeds, know the rules courtesy?
(Suggested answer: to we have become better, kinder, more tolerant of each other.)
- Let's read the motto of our lesson: (on the board)
To give joy to people,
We must be kind and polite!
- Key word today: kindness.
- What is kindness? The guys from the first group will tell us about it.
3. Work in groups with cases.
Case #1.
1 group : " kindness"
Kindness is the desire to help people, and without demanding for it thanks. This is a property of the soul that allows you not to remain indifferent to troubles. others, to be there when it is so necessary for a person. For example: "Kindness and sympathy are the basis of the character of Russians, always striving to come to help not only a neighbor, but also a complete stranger.
Kindness is also a gentle, caring attitude towards people, all living things. on the ground. For example: "The kindness of a child is manifested in his affection for a cat or a puppy, in his care of flowers, kindness must be taught from childhood."
Kindness is a concept somewhat abstract. Much can be invested in the meaning of this word. For the first view, it is easy to answer the question: what does kindness mean. But at the same time and difficult. After all, kindness is the basis of such concepts as mercy, empathy, empathy, selflessness and even heroism. It is love for a person kindness, the desire to save him and becomes an incentive to a heroic deed.
http://elhow.ru/ucheba/opredelenija/d/chto-takoe-dobrota
letter , which denote good deeds.
D - good-natured, kind, trusting
O - open, responsive
B - charitable, charitable, noble
R - resolute, joyful
O - responsible
T - tolerant, patient, touching
A - active
http://www. xapaktep.net/virtues /universal/kindness/desc.php
Source No. 3:
"Ordinary Man"
There is a well in the hot, dry steppe. There is a hut near the well, a grandfather and grandson live in it.
At the well on a long rope bucket. People go, they go - they turn to the well, drink water, thank their grandfather.
One day the bucket came off and fell into a deep well. My grandfather didn't have another bucket. Nothing to get water and get drunk.
The next day in the morning a man in a cart drives up to his grandfather's hut. He has a bucket under the straw. Traveler looked at the well, looked at the grandfather and grandson, hit the horses with a whip and rode farther.
- Who is this person? - asked the grandson of his grandfather.
- This is not a person - grandfather replied.
Passed by at noon grandfather's hut is a different owner. He took out a bucket from under the straw, tied it to a rope, he took out water and got drunk himself, gave it to his grandfather and grandson to drink; poured water into dry sand, hid the bucket again in the straw and drove off.
- Who is this person? - asked the grandson of his grandfather.
- And this is not yet a person, grandfather answered.
In the evening I stopped at grandfather's hut third traveler. He took a bucket out of the cart, tied it to a rope, took water, got drunk. He thanked and went, and left the bucket tied at well.
– What kind of person is this? the grandson asked.
- An ordinary person, grandfather replied.
Analysis of the story:
- Did you like the story?
- Can we say that grandfather and grandson are good people? Why?
- About which of the passing grandfather said that "this is not a man." Why?
- Why third passerby grandfather called an ordinary person?
- What other person can be called?
- What does this story teach us?
Case #2.
Group 2 "Mercy"
dictionary of the Russian language "S. I. Ozhegov.
Mercy , -i, neuter gender Readiness to help someone or forgive someone out of compassion, philanthropy. Show mercy. Call out for someone's mercy. Society "M." Act without mercy (cruel).
• A sister of mercy, a woman caring for the sick, the wounded.
Source #2:
• Be merciful to the younger and listen to your elders.
• Mercy over sin is like water over fire (i.e., domineering).
will respond.
Source #3:
these lines?
Let's be be friends with each other,
Like a bird with the sky, like a field with a plow,
Like the wind with the sea, grass with rains,
How the sun circles with all of us! , and a bird.
And they trusted us everywhere,
As their most faithful friends!..
Let's take care of the planet -
There is nothing like it in the whole Universe:
All alone in the whole Universe,
What will she do without us? . ..
30002 Case No. 3:
Group 3 "Respect"
respect elders".
A donkey Alphabet was walking along the road. Walked and cried. met him goat Marmeladik and asks:
- Why are you crying? Maybe you were offended?
— No. Nobody offended me.
- What's the matter?
- Grandmother drove me out of the house and told me to I did not return until I learned ... to respect ... seniors... And how can I learn if there is no such school anywhere?
- Dry your tears, donkey. I will help you.
— Really, can you help?
- True, I will help. You must remember a few rules. You have good memory?
- I'm not complaining!
- That's wonderful! So, remember: the elders need give way, let them go ahead, speak politely to them, do not be bold, do not argue, do not pat on the back, as equal, and most importantly - do not forget to listen to their advice...
— Oh, how many rules! And how could you do them all remember?
- I'm a well-bred goat, that's all.
— Do you think I'm an ill-mannered donkey, right?
— I don’t think I said anything like that — he was embarrassed Marmalade. “However, I have to go.
And he quickly said goodbye to the donkey to don't quarrel. The donkey Alphabet caught up with an old horse along the way Whoa, loaded with various purchases, and thinks: “Now I’ll check if I taught respect my elder goat…”
The donkey came up to the horse and said:
“Hello, horse Whoa! Don't be afraid, I will I will not hold back. And pat on the back as an equal, too I won't.
— What else? Old Tpru smiled.
- And I will also try to let you go ahead. And also if you suddenly advise me something, then I will listen.
- Great! Tpru praised. - But for what are you talking to me about this?
- You see, my grandmother drove me out of the house and told me not to come back until I learned to respect seniors. Do you think I have already learned?
- Almost learned. And I myself will tell your grandmother. But do you want me to give you one piece of advice?
- Of course I do! — The next time you meet an elderly horse loaded with various purchases, you help her to carry them. Okay?
- Absolutely! the donkey promised. And then I thought a little and added: - Can I help you now?
Why did the Donkey decide to help at the end of the tale? Horses?
What would you do?
http://www.planetaskazok.ru/images/stories/pleatskovsky/2/tmpBB9-83.jpg
Source #2:
Whoever respects his mother will not offend someone else.
Case No. 4 :
group 4 "Politeness"
dictionary of the Russian language "S.I. Ozhegov.
topic "Polite words".
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4. How does the conversation end?
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16. What polite children say when they meet for adults ...
17. The vociferous nightingale sang wonderfully among the branches, And Sparrows shouted to him throughout the oak forest: “…”
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2. What is the name of the science that studies the rules and the culture of people’s behavior at school and on the street
3. If we can’t eat anymore, we’ll tell mom ...
5. the tsar gave Ivan five nails for saving a Ivanushka says in response...
he doesn't want to play anymore says
8. Before leaving to say goodbye, I'll say...
9. fat cow Lula ate hay and sneezed to didn’t sneeze again, we’ll tell her . .. flew in. Her insects Flo and Fti Will say: "... "
12. I met my neighbor Petka and ran into he is at me like I don’t know who but imagine in vain I was waiting for a word from Petka ...
13. Good afternoon! If only you are not lazy, dear cashier, I would very much ask me, my wife and daughter in the second row, give the best places, here is mine
14. The crocodile did not leave the swamp for the longest time. Members of the toad council Gave him a prize for this - Awarded him with a parrot And shouted: “…”
15. How does the meeting begin?
4. Physmine.
5. Presentation of speeches.
6. Summing up. Evaluation.
7. Reflection.
- Guys, do you think it's easy to be kind?
- Yes, guys,
Being kind is not at all, not easy at all,
Kindness does not depend on height,
Kindness does not depend on color
Kindness is not a gingerbread, not a candy.
Just need, need to be kind
And in trouble do not forget each other
And the earth will spin faster,
If we are kinder.
- Well do you have to do to be kind? (do good deeds)
- Is it necessary ashamed to be kind?
- What do you guys think, what is more on earth: good or evil?
- On the board I will post the words that mean "evil" (tablets with inscriptions: Envy. Greed. Coarseness. Betrayal. War. Lie).
- In order to defeat evil, we must try to make more deeds with "good".
-Let's remember what good deeds you have done, ... you name your deed, and I I shoot - evil.
- You see, guys, and evil can be defeated.
-So and in life: droplets of good, merging, turn into a stream, streams into a river, rivers - in the sea of goodness.
- How did you feel doing a good deed? ( Do good very much pleasant and joyful.)
- Are you in a good mood? Let's use facial expressions to show our mood (smile), with the help of gestures, we will thank each other for the work (applause) and let's say all together (thank you).