5th grade Kindness lesson
Materials needed:
Introduction:
Lesson:
- Paper
- Scissors
- Computer to play video
Introduction:
- Write a simple math problem on the board. “I have a sheet of paper that has four corners. I decide to give one corner to my friend. How many corners do I have left?”
- Show the class a sheet of paper. Ask them how many corners the paper has. (4). What happens if I decide to give one of these corners to someone else? How many corners do I have now? How is it possible that I gave away one corner, but actually gained an extra in the process? How can “kindness” be like this sheet of paper?
- What is kindness? (write ideas on board)
Lesson:
- When was a time when someone was kind to you? How did it make you feel?
- Was there ever a time when someone could have helped you but chose not to? How did/would that make you feel?
- Why would people choose not to be kind to other people? (Think about the paper activity- people may think that they would be LOSING something by going out of their way to be kind).
- Show video: RAK’s and get students to think about every-day ways that they can show kindness to others in their class or in their school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU
- What ways can you show kindness to people here at school?
- After watching and discussing video, give each student a sheet of paper. On that paper, have students write one act of kindness on each corner (maybe one corner for each student in the class?) As they do the kind deed for that person, they will cut or tear off the corner of their sheet symbolically.