Random Acts of Kindness 2016

Last year, my favorite school wide activity was RAK week-except we did it for a month, because collecting hundreds of hearts was a little more than a week's worth of work.  Essentially , we asked       all students and staff to complete any acts of kindness that they could think of (we also gave suggestions), and write them down on red hearts we distributed.

This is such an easy project for a class or school,  and I just updated mine for this year.  Use my FREE template here!

RAK week

Every year, I plan to do something for Random Acts of Kindness week.  Then, January comes, and I can barely survive the new referrals and evaluations, I forget all about it.  This still happened this year, but because of the school climate program I recently rolled out at my school, I was more motivated to get it done.  I recruited my social worker and a parent volunteer to do a pretty easy activity school wide.

RAK week

At the beginning of RAK week (February 9th), I went home a letter to parents about a school-wide project.  I asked every student, teacher and family to complete an "act of kindness", and write it on a heart.  I sent 2 hearts home with every student, and started collecting them the net day, and displaying them throughout the school.

I also sent some ideas to teachers; a quick youtube video and some ideas for discussion about kindness in their classrooms.

Sculpy clay hearts we made to make people smile

A little chocolate makes everyone smile!

I love reading the acts and hanging them up!  I'm going to choose one from each grade to read at our upcoming climate assembly.

I love that our students are thinking about others and kindness!