Cultivating social-emotional skills such as gratitude, empathy, and kindness is essential in early childhood.
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Understanding and feeling compassion is essential for healthy relationships and contributes to reducing incidences of bullying in classrooms. Exploring what compassion means through creating acrostic poems will provide students the opportunities to explore a word and its meaning.
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This thought-provoking activity gives students the opportunity to feel and share another person's emotions. Cross the line creates awareness of others’ experiences, perspectives and circumstances building a unified and supportive group of learners.
Self-acceptance is embracing who you are, without any qualifications, conditions, or exceptions. This activity explores positive affirmations. Affirmations will help train your mind to stop over-focusing on the negative and instead embrace the good, valuable, or positive about yourself the less desirable!
The book, All Bodies are Good Bodies by Charlotte Barkla explores different body features and types. All types of bodies are celebrated – ‘bold and beautiful, loud and proud’. Through this fun rhyming book, the development of body acceptance, inclusivity and individuality is promoted building positive thoughts and attitudes.
Perhaps the best way to teach the virtue of humility is to foster in our children a deep sense of gratitude. A sense of gratitude for even the little things can be expressed through thank you letters.