Bullying and Suicide Prevention
Bullying and Suicide Prevention
KINDNESS DAY
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Make Kindness Your SUPERPOWER!
Thank you for a wonderful Community Kindness Week in September. The CKM will be celebrating our first Kindness Day of the 2018-19 school year this week. Please send out a reminder in your school newsletter and teacher-to-parent emails reminding parents that Kindness shirts are encouraged to be worn each Thursday and that every THIRD THURSDAY is a celebrated monthly Kindness Day. Let them know that teachers or your school kindness club will be providing a kindness lesson or class discussion on these days.
CKM KINDNESS WEEK SLIDESHOW
The CKM is putting together a slideshow from that week that you will be able to share with your students, school newsletters, and on school and business social media sites. If you have pictures from our Community Kindness Week that you would like to share, please send to CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com. The deadline is October 31st. We plan to have the slideshow available by November’s Kindness Day.
ACCESS TO ANNUAL KINDNESS PROGRAM
If your school participated in our CKM Kindness Week and was funded Kindness Shirts, your school was granted access to our annual school Kindness Program. If you are a teacher and have not received access to our Monthly Kindness Lesson Plans, please contact your school’s Kindness Coordinator for the password.
EXCITING NEWS!
More schools are joining us soon!
For schools that are not located in Idaho, they have to option to have our 2016 Yellow Kindness Shirt design.
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”.‘
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: 
For adults, keeping a gratitude journal enables people to:
Below are available printable to use.
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.
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
The Kindness T-Shirts have been delivered locally and shipped out to all the schools!
In the next few days, parents will be receiving our Parent Flyer. This is a great way to help inform the parents that their schools will be celebrating Kindness Week next week and why their child received a Kindness T-Shirt. The Parent Flyer includes the “Acts of Kindness Challenge” for each day of the week and gives the students suggestions on what to wear each day…:) We encourage and invite all schools and the community to join in with us with spreading some Kindness next week!
Here is a BLANK COPY of the Parent Flyer for the Schools who will be celebrating their Kindness Week at a different time.
THANK YOU 2016-2017 SPONSORS!
Your kindness will come around full circle this year with providing 3000+ students with Kindness T-Shirts to go along with our
“Kindness Begins With Me!” Bullying Prevention Program.
2016 Kindness T-Shirt Printing
Thank you to New Day Products for adding extra shifts to print all of our Kindness T-Shirts for Kindness Week. The schools should be receiving their Kindness T-Shirts by the end of the week for distribution on Monday, the FIRST DAY OF KINDNESS WEEK!
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