It was kindness week this week.  We talked about how our actions and our words can be kind or unkind.  We made of list of kind actions and words- compliments are kind; encouragement is kind; helping is kind; cooperating is kind, etc. 
We decided that we are going to try to choose kindness... not just this week, but every day! We talked about how sometimes we think unkind thoughts, but we should't always say them. For example, if we don't l like something Mom made for dinner, we don't have to say, "yuck!" WE can keep it in our brains. We discussed lots of scenarios and how we could choose to do the right thing and leave unkind thoughts in our brains! We also talked about choosing to say something kind instead.  We could always say, "I liked the other chicken dinner better, Mom."  We read a book called Have You Filled Your Bucket Today? It was about how kindness "fills our bucket", but unkind gestures and words "dip" from our bucket. We started to track kindness by adding to our class bucket when we do kind things for each other.  Hopefully with each act of kindness we CAN make our world a better place!