what is kind?

We have been learning about our school rules of being safe, kind, and responsible. We have been noticing the choices we are making and how these choices help our community to be in the green zone and ready to learn and play together.

It's important for children to have the time to define these big words, using what they know and feel to represent what it means to be kind, safe, and responsible. This week we explored the word kind using literature, reflections, turn and talks, and our own experiences.

What is kind?

Kind is helping people -Nora
Being kind is being in the green zone -Owen
When you are kind you share. Like sharing books! -Richard
Kind is giving presents and giving feelings, like love -Alice (and Cassidy)

Children engaged in different conversations about kindness. Thinking deeply about what it means to be kind and why it is important to be kind. Following our conversations and read alouds they used pictures and words to show their understanding of the word kind.

 

 

 

How will you be kind today?

 

We connected our conversations to another big word; friend. Many of the children shared that a friend is kind and a friend helps. We are kind in our classroom in different ways.

Saying hello during our morning meeting is kind. 

 

Sharing our work with a friend and listening to their story is kind.

 

 

Kindness is important, because when we share kindness in our classroom, it creates feelings of love and peace. We are happy to be together, to work and learn together. Our kindness can spread across our school, to our families, and around the world. We will continue to celebrate kindness in authentic and meaningful ways.

For children to embrace our school rules and feel like they have ownership we must give them time to explore the language we use and represent what these rules mean. As we move into the next couple of weeks the children will use their language, representations, community work, and our school rules to develop our classroom expectations.