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World Kindness Day
World Kindness Day - November 13th
World Kindness Day is observed internationally each year to remind and encourage people around the world to share kindness with others, lend a helping hand, and build compassion for one another. Here are a few resources you can share with your students to think more about the value of being kind.
- Begin the day by watching the video book trailer and video book reading for Kindness is a Kite String: The Uplifting Power of Empathy. Then ask your students: how can you lift others with kindness? Encourage students to strive to do at least one act of kindness today.
Find titles and resources on the themes of kindness and peace on these lists:
Guide students through this “World I want to Live in” craft activity, after watching the complete video reading of The Kindest Red. Find talking points and extension ideas in these teaching notes.
Hear author Apryl Stott speak about how challenging sharing kindness can be in this Meet-the-Author Recording for Share Some Kindness, Bring Some Light. Encourage students to think about a time when being kind seemed difficult, and discuss together.
Build a “Mural of Kindness” and review the 10 Acts of Kindness checklist in this activity kit after watching the complete video reading of Finding Kindness by Deborah Underwood and Irene Chan.
Share this complete video reading in American Sign Language and English of When We Are Kind and find questions to reflect about kindness in this teacher resource.
