JES Counselor’s Corner
February 2008 First Grade

Classroom Guidance

This month's character education word is kindness - showing others they are valuable by how you treat them.

  • First graders watched the kindness segment from the Connect! Character Education Elementary version DVD via the computer and LCD projector.

  • Students answered the following questions about kindness and Russell's story as Ms. Kenney typed them in the computer and displayed them on the projector.

Kindness: Grades K-2

Kindness Classroom Guidance Lesson February 2008, Anny Kenney, Professional School Counselor

Source: Georgia Department of Education (2007).

Connect with Kids: Connect! Character Education Elementary Activity Guide, p.41.

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Segment Summary

Russell Mayhew’s firsthand experience taught him how it feels when people behave unkindly.

Text Box: Russell Mayhew’s old classmates ridiculed him because he was one of the smartest kids in his class. He didn’t tell anyone, not even his mother, about the teasing he suffered at school. In time, the cruelty toward Russell escalated to violence when students began beating him up at school and on the bus. When Russell’s mother eventually found out, she took immediate action by transferring him to a different school where his new classmates are kind and accept Russell’s intelligence. Now happy at his new school, Russell has learned that it is important to seek help from adults in order to prevent an unkind situation from developing into a dangerous one.  

 

 

 

 

Discussion Questions

  1. What does kindness mean?
  1. How were the kids at his school unkind to Russell?
  1. Why do you think the kids were unkind to Russell?
  1. What are some acts of kindness they could have shown Russell?
  1. What are some ways you can be kind to your friends?
  • Each student them selected a heart and used suggestions from the classroom exercise or came up with their own sentences about kindness.
  • Students glued their individual hearts onto a larger classroom kindness heart.

See the students' work below.

 
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