Kindness Reflection - Lower Primary
The Kindness Reflection - Lower Primary resource encourages young students to think about and express their understanding of kindness through simple, guided prompts. Each section, represented by the letters in "KINDNESS," prompts students to reflect on acts of kindness, empathy, and community-building. This activity helps build foundational social-emotional skills and fosters a culture of inclusivity and compassion.
Learning goals
- We are learning to identify and practise emotional responses.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies, such as retelling, making inferences and finding key words to make meaning from multimodal texts.
Curriculum alignment
Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings
ACELY1650 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently ACHASSI034 8.4 Pose questions about past and present objects, people, places and eventsAustralian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
• For Students Needing Support:
- Guided Responses: Use sentence starters like “I can be kind by…” to help students begin their writing.
- Verbal Sharing: Allow students to share their answers aloud if writing is challenging.
- Visual Aids: Provide examples or images of kind actions to inspire responses.
• For Students Ready for a Challenge:
- Detailed Examples: Encourage students to write about a time they were kind or saw kindness in action.
- Group Sharing: Facilitate group discussions where students share their reflections and learn from each other.
- Illustrated Responses: Ask students to draw a picture alongside their written answers.
Extensions
• Class Kindness Wall: Create a classroom display showcasing the completed responses.
• Kindness Journals: Start a kindness journal for students to continue reflecting on acts of kindness throughout the term.
• Role-Playing Activity: Organise role-play scenarios where students act out kind actions discussed in their responses.