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Kind Bear

SEL Skill: Social Awareness

Color: Green

English + Español

Kindness is something we practice.

Includes a kindness and empathy lesson and storybook.

About this lesson

Children explore empathy, noticing how others feel, and the small everyday choices that make classrooms and families kinder.

What children will learn

  • Read feelings in faces, words, and tone
  • Understand different perspectives
  • Include others and speak up kindly
  • Turn kind thoughts into kind actions

Practice activities

  • Empathy story circle
  • Kindness mission cards
  • Class kindness pledge

Taking the skill home

Kind Bear reminds children to look for one kind thing they can do each day.

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