FOR THE BIRDS (AND FOR KINDNESS)

Today we focused on kindness in the classroom and respecting our classmates differences. Differences come in all shapes and sizes.  Sometimes our friends have different color hair or skin. Sometimes our friends like to wear different kinds of clothes.  Sometimes our friends like to play different games on the playground.  Regardless it's important to treat all friends with the same respect and kindness that we expect in return.

 Here's a short movie we watched to help us start to think about kindness in the classroom.  Even though this movie is funny, it highlights things that happen at school all the time.
For the Birds

We thought up some scenarios and figured out how we would react if our friends were making fun of another classmate.  Here's what we had to say:

I would stand up and say stop.  If they didn't stop I would tell the teacher.

Say stop it.  You do it again and I will tell the person is a bully.

I would tell the person to stop and I would stand up to the person.

I would stand up for the person and say you can't do that, that's not nice, that's mean.