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Have children make
“thinking of you” greeting cards for residents at a
local nursing home or for patients at a children’s
hospital, or for a family in the community who is facing
a hardship.
Have children find the
compassion card in their treasure chest. Have them make
the raindrop symbol above the word in a color they feel
best represents compassion. If time allows, have
children draw a picture of themselves using compassion
on the back of the card. Then have them place their card
back in the chest. |
Identify a person, family,
or group of people in the community who might feel
comforted by students’ expressions of kindness. Have
students write letters, make greeting cards, or do some
other kind gesture for them. Or perhaps, through a
community-sponsored program, work with students to send
letters or cards to children in some other part of the
world.
Have students make the
compassion symbol on the compassion card, write “I
have,” and either decorate the card or depict an
experience they had using this gift.
Suggest that students
perform a kind act before the end of the day. |
Through brainstorming,
identify many possible ways to use compassion toward
other people, animals, the earth, and oneself. If time
permits, develop plans for a future class project
related to compassion—for example, a food drive, a
collection of old towels for an animal shelter, litter
removal, or a fund raiser for a local cause.
Have students write their
thoughts and feelings about compassion in their
journals.
Suggest that before the
day is over, they do one, small, individual “random act
of kindness” and keep it a secret.
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