At this time in the year, it is a good idea to focus on ways for students to show kindness. Here are some ideas to implement in your own classroom from some of the teachers in third grade.
Mrs. Maiorino:
Mrs. Maiorino’s class uses bucket fillers throughout the year. There are signs in the classroom that show what kindness sounds like, looks like, and feels like. Students can fill each others’ buckets throughout the year. On the last day of school, students will receive their buckets and can read all the nice things other students put in it.
Mrs. Roe:
Mrs. Roe has a kindness tree on her bulletin board. When students do something to show kindness to someone else, they get to fill out leaf and it gets put on the tree for all to see.
Mrs. Ferrell has a Keep the Quote wall in her class. She uses this by teaching her students the quote and going over the meaning of it as a class. They have a discussion of different ways to show this to each other. Then students vote at the end of the month for the student that best displayed the qualities of the quote. The student that receives the most votes gets to Keep the Quote.
Mrs. Jones’ class has Acts of Kindness chain links. When students do something nice for someone else, they can write it on a chain link and it will be connected to the class kindness chain.
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