Thursday, March 16th, we celebrate MARCH KINDNESS DAY!
Kindness Theme: I’M LUCKY BECAUSE…
Building a foundation of GRATITUDE in our classrooms has proven to help impact the prevention of Bullying and Cyber-Bullying. Each of us can help bring happiness to our children and students. GRATITUDE has transformed many lives. It is true that our focus can stimulate growth. If each of us can focus on the good and what we are grateful for, more comes into my life and our students will follow our example. Conversely, if our children/students listen to us complain and focus on the negative, more of that is drawn into each of our lives. We find that the fruit of the focus on GRATITUDE will be HAPPINESS.
PRINCIPALS and SCHOOL COUNSELORS: Please remind your student throughout this week to WEAR THEIR KINDNESS T-SHIRTS ON THURSDAY! We recommend reminding your parents in your monthly school newsletter. Please encourage your staff to also wear their Kindness T-Shirts. The Kindness T-Shirt is such a valuable visual learning tool that each student has. The message and constant reminder can truly help make a difference in the lives of your students.
TEACHERS: Please take the first 10-15 minutes of your school day on Thursday and dedicate it to our Kindness Theme. If you have the time throughout that day or throughout the week to do a Kindness Day Activity, it is available below. It’s import to invest education time in helping educate the hearts of our children. Your example and investment will make a difference. Below is a GRATITUDE YouTube Video that you can share on your smart boards on Kindness Day morning to jump-start your GRATEFUL DAY, the message is “EVERYTHING IS A GIFT”.‘
Students Gratitude Journal Writing
Gratitude seems to work like a muscle, and the physical action of writing a gratitude list helps develop “gratitude muscles.” A recent study by Professor Philip Watkins from Eastern Washington University, published in School Psychology Review, showed that those who are the least grateful seem to gain the most from making this effort. That is good news to those us who may find it hard to start a gratitude list. Challenge the students by asking if they can be thankful for homework or chores. This challenge enables them to see what is good about homework — that it helps them learn and prepares them for school and life.
Keeping a gratitude journal on a daily basis helps students achieve the following: 
- Higher grades
- Higher goals
- More satisfaction with relationships, life, and school
- Less materialism
- More willingness to give back.
For adults, keeping a gratitude journal enables people to:
- Be more optimistic
- Experience more social satisfaction
- Exercise more often
- Have less envy and depression
- Have fewer physical complaints
- Sleep better.
KINDNESS DAY SCHOOL ACTIVITY
Below are available printable to use.
We {heart} Kindness!
Next Thursday, February 16th is KINDNESS DAY!
The CKM wants to help make your Kindness Day a success! We hope that you find our monthly Kindness Themes helpful. Your school is welcome to use our ideas with each theme or your welcome to come up with your own! REMEMBER to remind your students the Wednesday before, to wear their Yellow KINDNESS T-SHIRTS!
ORDER Kindness T-Shirts HERE
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PLANNING FOR 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR
The CKM will soon be planning for the next 2017-2018 school year. We are looking for NEW CKM Committee Members that are interested in joining us plan monthly kindness themes, help in fundraising, applying for grants, and help with September 2017 Kindness Week. If interested contact Melissa at CommunityKindessMovement@gmail.com
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CKM BOARD OF DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT
We would like to introduce our 2017 Board of Directors. First up, Tim Roth, our Board of Directors Treasurer. Tim resides in Pocatello, Idaho and is happily married to Kate Roth, a Nurse Practitioner at Bingham Memorial Family Medicine. They have three children that keep them busy. Tim was part of the ISU Accounting Class last year, that took on the project to file and turn the CKM into a Non-Profit Corporation. Tim is currently a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Accountancy (MAcc) student at Idaho State University. Tim recently graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from ISU as well. He works as a Graduate Assistant at Bengal Solutions and enjoy skiing, softball, fly fishing, and anything outdoors. We are happy to have him on board the KINDNESS MOVEMENT!
February would be a great month to share our “6 Scientific Reasons Why KINDNESS Is Good For YOU!”
For HILLSDALE and PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY
Show your students last month’s KINDNESS WEEK VIDEO!
KINDNESS WEEK JANUARY 2017
The Community Kindness Movement had the opportunity to launch three awesome Kindness Assemblies last week, for Hillsdale and Park Ridge Elementary. We want to give a warm welcome to our 23rd and 24th school that have implemented our annual “Kindness Begins with Me!” Bullying Prevention Program. We greatly appreciate all our KIND SPONSORS for funding 1200+ Kindness T-Shirts for each student and staff member. Your KINDNESS and GENEROSITY continues to empower our children and to build a better and safer learning environment throughout the State of Idaho.
The CKM is excited to report that we have funded 15,201 Kindness T-Shirts since we began in September of 2015. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to our success the last two years. Your kindness will always be remembered and because of you, we have been able to inspire kindness to several children.
The KINDNESS WEEK video can be shown to Hillsdale and Park Ridge Elementary students this next Kindness Day, February 16th. All our videos are available on our website to use and to share at www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com/videos or you can also use our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJyPApNCl18YOuIhlf6jcXw
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO:
Idaho Community Foundation
– Children’s Charity of Idaho Fund
– Miles and Virginia Willard Fund
– Unrestricted Eastern Region Fund
New Day Products and Resources
Park Ridge Elementary PTA
Park Ridge Elementary
House of Design, LLC
208 Real Estate – Carlie Seamons
Kenyon Enterprises
Red Sofa Company
Timberline Mortgage Idaho
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY KINDNESS MOVEMENT!
JANUARY SPOTLIGHT: Give a warm welcome to our 2017 CKM Executive Officers and Board of Directors!
The CKM will celebrate a KINDNESS WEEK this month, JANUARY 23rd-29th! We invite your school to join us. All resources available on our website at www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com and you can follow us for announcements on our FB page www.Facebook.com/CommunityKindnessMovement.
January Kindness Day Theme: “We are BUCKET FILLERS”
What a great way to start off the new year by building Bucket Fillers in your classrooms. Next Thursday, January 19th, we will be celebrating our first KINDNESS DAY in 2017, we want to make it a good one! Remind your staff and students to wear the Yellow Kindness T-Shirts. We have several bucket filling activities and ideas that your teachers or librarian can implement this month.
There are many wonderful books available to read to your students on how to promote a school of Bucket Fillers. For KINDNESS DAY, the book, “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”, is accessible on YouTube and can be shown to your students in the classrooms on the smart boards. There are activities below that your teachers can also use for Kindness Day.
BUCKET FILLER ACTIVITIES and CLASSROOM IDEAS
Bucket Filler Crossword Puzzle
Classroom Bucket Filling Activity
Happy December Kindness Day! In the spirit of giving and bringing HOPE and JOY to others, The Community Kindness Movement is excited to announce that they were selected to receive a generous grant award of $3,000, from the Children’s Charities of Idaho Fund, the Miles and Virginia Willard Fund, the Unrestricted Eastern Region Fund, and the grant has been approved and funded by the Idaho Community Foundation. The grant will support the Community Kindness Movement effort in funding schools that have applied for our program through our CKM website. The Idaho Community Foundation grant and other local businesses have made it possible to support 1,122 more students with our “Kindness Begins With Me Program”. The grant funds will purchase yellow Kindness T-Shirts for the students to wear during Kindness Week, throughout the school year on Thursdays, and each monthly Kindness Day.
LAKE RIDGE ELEMENTARY KINDNESS ASSEMBLY
Melissa Nelson, the CKM President commented, “we are very appreciative that the Idaho Community Foundation selected to support the Community Kindness Movement. We are excited to officially announce the schools that will be receiving the grant assistance, Hillsdale Elementary and Park Ridge Elementary. Both schools are excited about empowering a foundation of kindness in their entire student body and faculty with the help of our annual Bullying Prevention/Kindness Program. The Community Kindness Movement will be celebrating a Kindness Week in the first of next year, January 23rd-27th. We invite all schools to join us!
PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY
Shiloh Kenya, Park Ridge PTA President added, “Park Ridge Elementary PTA originally heard about the Community Kindness Movement last spring at the State PTA convention. We were very impressed with the Founder of the CKM, Melissa Nelson when she shared her personal story and how the CKM evolved. We decided as a PTA, that it was a program that we would love to implement in our school. We are planning on working with our school counselor and the CKM team to build a foundation of kindness in our school. We want to thank our contributing sponsors: Idaho Community Foundation, House of Design, Carlie Seamons Real Estate, Kenyon Enterprises, Park Ridge School, Park Ridge Elementary PTA, and the CKM for making this possible for Park Ridge Elementary.
HILLSDALE ELEMENTARY
Principal Bair and School Counselor, Mrs. Elder, at Hillsdale Elementary, expressed their appreciation for the Community Kindness Movement in selecting their school for the Idaho Community Foundation grant. They are excited about celebrating their second Kindness Week for the 2016-2017 school year, in January. The yellow Kindness T-Shirts will contribute an important learning visual tool and helpful reminder to the Hillsdale students and faculty. Hillsdale Elementary looks forward to the CKM partnership and shared vision of enriching the lives of their students.
About ICF:
The Idaho Community Foundation is a statewide public nonprofit organization whose goal is to have a permanent endowment of charitable dollars that will serve Idaho forever. ICD manages charitable funds on behalf of organizations, families, individuals and businesses. A gift of any size to an ICF fund helps increase the size and number of grants and scholarships awarded to local nonprofits and students.
About the CKM:
The Community Kindness Movement provides an Annual Bullying Prevention Program and provided an implementation for schools through the State of Idaho. The CKM has been a partner with the Idaho PTA Organization and others to encourage community, business owners, and parents to get involved in the building a safer learning environment for our children. For more information about the Community Kindness Movement, please visit www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com or email at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com.
Happy Holidays!
December Kindness Theme: GIVING HOPE AND JOY TO OTHERS
What a great time of year to share our CKM Kindness Week 2016 Video! It’s amazing seeing all these children given the Gift of Kindness from so many caring sponsors, grantors, schools, and parents – THANK YOU! We invite all participating schools to share the Kindness Week Video with your students on this December’s Kindness Day, December 15th, 2016. Your students will enjoy watching how KINDNESS has inspired your school, other schools in the community, and schools throughout the State of Idaho.
SCHOOL KINDNESS SPOTLIGHT – Liberty Elementary – Boise, Idaho
We would like to thank the Liberty Elementary PTA for funding Liberty Elementary in Boise, with our Kindness Begins With Me Program. We were
excited to have them participate this year and enjoyed visiting their school and launching their Kindness Week. Thank you for sharing this great picture of your students celebrating Kindness Day last month. We also noticed a great picture on their school website https://liberty.boiseschools.org/ of their students in their Kindness T-Shirts.
DECEMBER KINDNESS THEME FLYER & ACTIVITY
We would love to hear about your school’s kind acts for this holiday season. We will continue to spotlight school’s each month in our Monthly Newsletters. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! On December 15th (Kindness Day), we will be announcing some wonderful news that fits with our December Kindness Theme, stay tuned!
November Kindness Day
TOMORROW – Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Theme: “Give those special people in your life a PAT ON THE BACK”.
Let those special people know how THANKFUL you are to have them in your life.
Photo of Washington Elementary in Pocatello Idaho.
I apologize for the November Kindness Newsletter delay. My family and I have been busy relocating to Boise this last month. We arrived last weekend and are finally getting settled in. I want to personally thank everyone in our Pocatello/Chubbuck Community that helped the CKM make all this possible for so many schools and students. I will forever be grateful for your kindness. My hope is that each school that was funded Kindness T-shirts and given our Kindness Begins with Me Program, will continue to join us and make it their own.
The CKM desires to continue to help implement our program in more schools throughout the State of Idaho.
We have a WONDERFUL ANNOUNCEMENT coming very soon!
I am thankful for so many wonderful individuals who influence and teach our children every day. Your KINDNESS and POSITIVE EXAMPLE makes a huge difference in the lives of each one of our kids. Please encourage all your students to wear their Kindness T-Shirts tomorrow and to encourage them to reach out to those special people in their life and tell them why they are THANKFUL for them. Enjoy another wonderful day in spreading KINDNESS!
NOVEMBER KINDNESS DAY ACTIVITY
HAPPY OCTOBER
KINDNESS WEEK was such a huge success in September – THANK YOU! We are almost finished putting together all the great photos that we took and received. A special thank you to Ashley Mae Photography for capturing many amazing photos! This video will be available very soon to share with your students and staff.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 2016, is KINDNESS DAY! Please remind your students and staff to wear their Kindness T-Shirts and/or to dress up like a Super Heros. Attached below is our October Kindness Day Theme Handout (which is also available on our website) and the planned activity that your students can do. This month, we have a Kindness Hero Star that your school can print out for the students to wear throughout the day. Have a wonderful Kindness Day!
STUDENT KINDNESS AWARDS – The CKM is now accepting nominations for our Monthly KINDNESS AWARD. The CKM would like for each school participating this year, to nominate (1) student from their school that is deserving of the CKM Kindness Award. The nominations can be sent in throughout the year. Once we select a student, we will contact your school in advance to send us a picture of them with their Kindness T-Shirt on with their Principal and/or Teacher. Please make sure that your student has a signed media release form and that their parents are good with us spotlighting them on our website and FB page. Please send in your nominations through our website. You can also send our Kindness Award Nominations Link out to your Principals and Teachers to help nominate a student. “CLICK HERE NOMINATION FORM”.
Kindness Award Items – The CKM as Kindness Buttons available to order through our website that you can choose to give out to your students as part of your Kindness Awards – CLICK HERE KINDNESS BUTTONS. We also have uploaded a CKM Kindness Certificate that you can print to award them with – CLICK HERE KINDNESS AWARD CERTIFICATE
OCTOBER KINDNESS THEME: “Kindness is our SUPER POWER”
Happy Kindness Week Everyone!
We would like to invite all of our local 2016 Pocatello/Chubbuck Sponsors and the CKM Crew to join us for a photo shoot tomorrow. Remember to wear your yellow Kindness T-shirts! We appreciate Principal Janice Nelson for inviting us to take pictures with her students at Washington and Tendoy Elementary in their Kindness T-Shirts!
Here is our Community Acts of Kindness Challenge.
We invite you all to join in with us and the students!
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!