This READY TO USE (NO PREP) social-emotional learning lesson based on the book, Each Kindness, covers the concepts of Kindness, Empathy, Compassion, Kind Acts Ripple Out into the World, Friendship, & Social Skills. It also addresses RELATIONAL/EMOTIONAL BULLYING. It includes 3 videos, one of which is the book being read aloud. Additionally, it includes a lesson introduction video by Izzy the Wonder Dog which you can use or delete according to your needs.

** Note ** This is one of my favorite lessons that I have taught recently. It will grab both young kids and older kids and won't let them go until they understand the importance of kindness. It is very powerful. Every time I have used it, at the end of the lesson the classroom is dead silent. It works. Enjoy!!

This is appropriate for use with both large groups and small groups or as an individual intervention to teach your social-emotional learning (SEL) standards and benchmarks.

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Each Kindness is an amazing book that describes the bullying behaviors of children to a new kid and the regret that they feel when they realize that they could have been kind instead of mean to her. Amazon describes it as follows:

"This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down.Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually, Maya stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya."

This READY TO USE (NO PREP) social-emotional learning lesson based on the book, Each Kindness, incorporates 3 different videos relating to kindness versus being mean, how bullying behaviors impact others, and introduces the concept of "Paying It Forward" with acts of kindness. One of the videos is of the book being read aloud.

The first video is about how a simple act of kindness comes back to you and ripples out into the world. The second is a video of the book, Each Kindness, being read aloud. The third is a link to a video illustrating paying it forward and how it impacts the whole world.

Comprehension questions are included to help you to lead the students to a clear understanding of the message of the book.

This lesson can be edited to make it fit your exact needs. The beauty of being able to personalize this lesson for yourself is that it is easily adapted to teach different levels at the elementary level or even older. All of my lessons and forms are field-tested. I have used them myself and have been successful with them.

The videos and activity support the concepts and help students to generalize them into their own lives and experiences. These videos are thought-provoking and entertaining ways to think about this very important concept and how it relates to being successful both now and in the future. I have found that videos are very effective in helping students to create an emotional link to the abstract concepts that character education involves. Coupled with discussions in which you can assist students to make the connection, it is an easy and effective way to teach these difficult concepts and assist students to internalize them into their own personalities.

This presentation includes slides that have transitions and animations to help to hold your students' interest. It is easily personalized and customized and includes a master slide that you can copy and paste into the location where additional information or personalization is desired.

Character education is vital to the success of our students. Employers report that the qualities for which they are looking when hiring include the 'soft skills" that are character education. As educators, we are called to support learning in the character education and social skills areas in order to educate the whole child.

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