FOURTH WEEK OF OCTOBER

Vs. Mean, unfriendly

• SUGGESTED READING:
  Light
  When the Sun Rose
  Sassafras
  Charlotte's Web
  Merchant of Venice

FAMILY ACTIVITY:

• Parents can share with their children ways they can be kind to others and their community. Donating time to charities, visiting senior care facilities, offering to help others, etc. When you see your child do something kind for another person congratulate them and tell them how proud you are of them.
• Volunteer for a charity organization or senior care facility with your child.

SCHOOL ACTIVITY:

• Have students write skits about positive experiences and perform the skits at an elder care facility.
• Have students write letters to people in the hospital telling about themselves and their lives.
• Have your class write get well cards to students who are out sick for several days.

HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:

• Have students practice "Random Acts of Kindness," during the week.
• Discuss the treatment of kindness in a recent book or short story the class has read.

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fibre of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best portion of a man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." -William Wadsworth

Perform a Random Act of Kindness Each Day

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