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Be Kind
Be Kind
Author: Pat Zietlow Miller
Illustrator: Jen Hill
Blurb from Amazon:
When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate wants to make her feel better, wondering: What does it mean to be kind?
From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving story explores what kindness is, and how any act, big or small, can make a difference―or at least help a friend.
Identities
How will your teaching help students to learn something about themselves and/or others?
Students will learn
that it is okay not to know what to do at times
the importance of small acts of kindness
how to be a friend
how to be kind
Skills
What skills and content learning are you teaching?
Students will learn
to make reasonable predictions
to retell a story with a beginning, middle, and end
to ask questions to check for understanding
to make connections
to identity whose point of view is presented
to use inclusive language
Intellect
What will students become smarter about?
Students will become smarter about
making good choices
how people want to be treated
how to treat others
being empathetic
not laughing at others
Criticality
How will you engage your thinking about power, equity, anti-oppression in the text, in society, and in the world?
We will
cultivate an environment of kindness
recognize that we share similar feelings
look in other texts or media works for identifying what it means to be kind
Learning Activities
Use a t-chart to show what it means to be kind and what it means to be unkind. Include examples from the text. Discuss what kindness might look like in other cultures.
Write 5-10 ways you can be kind this week. Create your own story about what happened using Book Creator.
Create posters using Canva about being kind and post them around the school. Include different racial groups in pictures if using people.
Create designs for kindness rocks. Use paint to make them. Give them to random people in the school. See pictures on instagram from The Kindness Rocks Project for inspiration.
Use this link Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - One Day or the embedded video below to watch how one act of kindness makes a difference. Create your own kindness video using iMovie or Powtoon. Share it at a school assembly.
Read The Kindness Quilt. Make a quilt using fabric. Or make a quilt using Sell tickets for a draw and donate the money to a charity organization. Research the different charity organizations and choose one that is in my need. Make a video of how the class made the money for the donation. Send it along with the money to the charity organization.
Read Have you Filled a Bucket Today? Write notes to classmates to add a 'drop' to their bucket. Discuss that 'drop' might look like for different cultures.
Write a poem with a friend about being kind using Google Drawings, Docs, or Slides. Use words from other languages you speak, too.
Meditate on Loving Kindness and Just Like Me and Loving Kindness Compassion from the Meditation Channel on YouTube.
Websites
Texts
Click on the image to read the summary of the book or to purchase it on amazon.ca
References
LifeBestInside (2011, August 29). Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day" [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU
Miller, P.Z. (2018). Be Kind. Roaring Book Press.
PV Storytime (2018, September 1). Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller and Jen Hill - Children's Books Read Aloud by PV Storytime [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NUJ2JZz50
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