Random Acts of Kindness Week! Monday!

Assembly Introduction to Random Acts of Kindness Week!

Some mornings we have "Spirit Assemblies". These are used as a way to energize teachers and students and help strengthen our school's community. During these assemblies, we sing our school song and have some announcements. During this week's assembly, I had some of the AIS Secret Service Agents come up in their sunglasses and badges and stand up while we showed a video we created to introduce Random Acts of Kindness. We created this video during our group time and edited it with iMovie (from the App store! AWESOME tool!) 

AIS Random Acts of Kindness Video Link

Check it out! 

The kids seemed to respond well and were excited about the "Secret Agents". 

Morning Announcements for Monday!  

Good morning! This is Agent Dragonfly and Agent Grasshopper from the AIS Secret Service. This week is Random Acts of Kindness week! We perform Random Acts of Kindness when we go beyond what is expected of us and reach out to help another person. There are three simple steps to performing a Random Act of Kindness.

• The first step is to find out what another person needs. For example, Sally has her hands full and she needs to open the door to get to her class.

• The second step is to think about how you would feel if you had that need. You might feel frustrated if your hands were full and you could not easily open the door by yourself. 

• The final step to performing a Random Act of Kindness is to offer your help. Hold the door open and let Sally enter.

There are hundreds of ways to show someone that you care. This week, look for opportunities to show that you care by performing Random Acts of Kindness.

Random Act of Kindness for Teachers!

In order to jump start the week, the students helped post two GIANT paper teacups they created in group. On the teacups they had filled in kind words and compliments for our awesome staff. I donated some tea bags to the Staff lounge and wrote on the board, "Welcome back! AIS is so lucky to have such awesome TEA-chers! Help yourself to some TEA as a thank you for all you do! Happy Random Acts of Kindness Week! -AIS Secret Service"

Classroom Extensions!

I really wanted RAK week to be saturated with information on Kindness and the benefits it has! Up until this point, I have been working with teachers to create lessons for their class that are focused on kindness. Here are some of the resources I shared with them to help spark some ideas! 

"Random Acts of Kindness Week will be here soon! Here are some resources to help your planning and RAK week discussions with your students." 

·         Educator Resources:  http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-resources

·         Character Ed Resource: http://inspiremykids.com/

·         Kindness Videos from RAK:  www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-videos

·         Story of California high school students who gave a bike to an elementary student who had his bike stolen twice: http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?id=9301992

·         Kindness Boomerang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU

·         How Full is your bucket Video Book (Book also in library): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5R6-2m_qHk

·         Coca-cola ad (don’t let this defer you) that actually shows quality RAKs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPhsJnn_rMk

·         Smiling at others and how it affects others: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TnW0srkpcA

...And the Agents?? 

The agents have been helping me out through the day, mainly during break and recess time to post flyers around the school promoting RAK week. They have a busy week ahead of them but I know they can do it!

Here is to a successful first day of RAK Week 2014!

As always, PLEASE share your ideas and additional resources below! I love feedback!

-Ms. Sara