# Lesson 210: Showing kindness

❤️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (40 Lessons) • 🔵 B. Understanding Others

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## Objective

I can show kindness with my words and actions. I can choose simple ways to be kind at home and at school and notice when others are kind to me.

## Materials

- Plain paper or a notebook page
- Crayons or colored pencils
- Optional: small stickers or hearts to mark kind acts

## Mini-lesson — What does kindness look like?

Kindness is when we do something to help or care for someone. Kindness can be small but still very important.

Kind words

- Saying, "Please", "Thank you", and "You can join us."
- Giving a compliment like, "I like how you tried your best."
- Checking on someone: "Are you okay?" or "Do you want to play?"

Kind actions

- Helping pick up toys without being asked.
- Sharing a game, book, or space.
- Holding a door or making space in a line.

Kindness at home and school

- At home: helping set the table, being gentle with brothers or sisters.
- At school: taking turns, including someone who is alone.
- Kindness can be quiet; it does not have to be big or loud.

How kindness feels

- Kindness can make other people feel safe, happy, or calm.
- Kindness can also make you feel warm and proud inside.
- We can also be kind to ourselves with gentle words like, "I am learning."

Adults can help children notice when they show kindness and say, "I saw your kind choice."

Picture strip: Kindness chain

## Guided Practice — My kindness map

You and an adult will make a simple kindness map to think about where you can be kind during a normal day.

1. On a notebook page, draw three big circles and label them: "Home", "School", and "Other places" (like park, shop, or playground).
2. Talk with the adult: "What is one kind thing I can do at home?" Write or trace one short idea in the Home circle, such as "Help tidy toys."
3. Do the same for School. Choose one kind action, such as "Ask someone who is alone to play." Write or trace it in the School circle.
4. In the Other places circle, think of a place you visit (for example, the park or a shop). Choose one kind action, such as "Hold the door" or "Wait calmly in line."
5. Draw a small picture in each circle to match the kind action (helping, including, or waiting).
6. Read your kindness map aloud with the adult. The adult can say, "You have kind ideas for many places."

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## Practice — Kindness coupon strip

Use this practice to help your child plan small kind acts and enjoy giving them away.

1. Turn the page sideways. Draw a long rectangle and divide it into four coupons (four boxes in a row). Write the title "Kindness coupons" at the top.
2. With the adult, choose four tiny kind acts. Examples:
   - "Help pick up toys."
   - "Give someone a compliment."
   - "Play a game with someone who is alone."
   - "Draw a thank-you picture."
3. Write or trace one kind act on each coupon and draw a small matching picture.
4. Cut the coupons apart (adult handles scissors) or fold the page so that each coupon can be used one at a time.
5. During the week, let your child choose a coupon and "spend" it by doing the kind act. After each one, place a small sticker, star, or check mark on the used coupon.
6. At the end of the week, talk together: "Which kind act felt the nicest to give? How did kindness help others?"

## Quick Check — Showing kindness

Answer each question about kind words, kind actions, and how kindness feels.

1) What is kindness?

Doing something to make people feel bad. Doing something to help or care for someone. Making sure you always go first.
Kindness is about helping and caring for others.

2) Which words are kind?

"Please" and "Thank you". "Move. This is my spot." "You are not good at anything."
Kind words show care and respect.

3) Which action shows kindness at home?

Leaving all your toys on the floor. Yelling when you are asked to help. Helping put away toys after you play.
Helping tidy up is a kind action at home.

4) Which action shows kindness at school?

Laughing when someone drops their crayons. Helping someone pick up their crayons. Pushing to be first in line.
Helping someone who needs it is kind.

5) Your classmate is sitting alone. What is a kind thing to say?

"Do you want to play with me?" "You have to sit alone." "We do not want you here."
Inviting someone to play is a kind choice.

6) How can kindness make someone else feel?

Lonely and left out. Scared and worried. Safe, noticed, and happy.
Kindness helps people feel safe and cared for.

7) How can kindness make you feel?

Like you never want to help again. Warm and proud that you helped. Like you should always be mean.
Being kind often makes you feel good inside too.

8) Which sentence is kind self-talk?

"I am learning, and I can keep trying." "I am the worst and I should stop." "Nobody should help me."
Kindness can also be how we talk to ourselves.

9) You forgot to do a kind act you planned. What is a helpful choice?

Decide to never try to be kind again. Tell yourself you are bad. Try a small kind act later or another day.
We can always try kindness again on another day.

10) What is one big goal of this lesson?

To learn how to win every game. To learn simple ways to show kindness with words and actions. To learn how to tease other people.
The goal is to show kindness with what we say and do.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can say in simple words what kindness means. Student can give at least one example of kind words. Student can give at least one example of a kind action at home or school. Student can explain how kindness can help someone feel safe or happy. Student can plan or notice at least one real-life kind act during the week.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can show kindness with my words and actions. 🙂 I know some ways to be kind, but I want more practice. 😅 Being kind on purpose still feels a bit tricky for me.

#### Next time I will practise…

Saying kind words to someone Doing one small kind action at home or school Noticing when someone else is kind
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