RAK Week- Thursday/Friday and WRAP UP!

So I have been a little late with posting but I thought I would go ahead and include what my school did for Thursday and Friday for Random Acts of Kindness Week 2014!


Thursday Morning Daily News:

Good morning! This is Agent Jayden and Agent Kristoff from the AIS Secret Service. Today is the fourth day of Random Acts of Kindness week. Today’s message is about making and keeping friends. When you are kind to others, more people want to be around you and be your friend!  Being kind to others is one of the best ways to make and keep friends! How will you show kindness to kids in your class today?

Secret Service Random Act of Kindness: 

On Thursday, my agents delivered some bookmarks that we have been making for our First Graders! Our first and second graders do a unit on Bucket Fillers using the book, "How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids" By Tom Rath.  Our Student Council members helped color some of the bookmarks as well! I had them laminated and then we tied in red string to the ends to jazz them up! The Secret Agents delivered them during our D.E.A.R (Drop Everything And Read time) and I think the first graders really enjoyed them! 

Friday Morning Daily News:

Good morning! This is Agent Wendy and Agent Stacy from the AIS Secret Service. Today is the final day of Random Acts of Kindness week. Today’s message is about passing kindness on.  When we do kind things for people, they feel so good about what we did that they often do kind acts for others. Thanks to all the students and staff for helping to make this a great week. Now let’s all work together to pass the kindness on throughout our school and into our community throughout the rest of the year!

-AIS Secret Service

Secret Service Random Acts of Kindness

Since it was Valentines Day, our secret service agents made valentines for our librarians and our ICT teacher (Ms. Jen WHO IS AWESOME!). They delivered the valentines wearing their Secret Agent Glasses and badges. 

School-wide RAKS
For Thursday and Friday, I let the classroom teachers choose how they wanted to conclude RAK week within their classrooms. A lot of teachers had activities to wrap-up the week and help build their classroom community. Some of the teachers had buckets in their room in which they had students write down every time they witnessed a RAK and then they shared them on Friday. Some teachers had some really creative ideas with kindness quotes in which the students reflected on what they meant to them during the week and then had to give away their quote on Friday. Overall, the end of the week was a little less structured but I feel it was a great way to encourage focused teacher involvement. 

WRAP-UP

We wrapped up our RAK week on Monday during a morning assembly. I showed a video of the RAK Week in Review and had some student and teacher volunteers to help me out! Here is the video we showed. 

RAK Week Review

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