Happy WOW Wednesday
“WOW” someone today with a simple act of kindness!
You’ve seen it on the bus, when someone offers his or her seat to an elderly person: The generous person feels noble, the elderly person beams with gratitude, and even spectators feel like cheering inside just from having witnessed a simple act of kindness.
HAPPY KINDNESS WEEK EVERYONE!
Today is Mix-It-Up Monday
- Challenge your students/children to sit by someone new at school lunch today (someone they don’t normally sit by). You could also pack them an extra snack to share with a friend.
- Surprise someone for lunch
- Go out to lunch with a friend, a group of friends, or with a special someone.
- Enjoy lunch at the park with your kids
- Enjoy a sit down dinner with your family to plan your Acts of Kindness this week.
- Do anything your heart desires. Just Mix-It-Up!
The CommUNITY Kindness Movement is excited for the 2017-18 school year!
Is your school planning on joining us this next year and implementing our Kindness Begins with Me Bullying Prevention Program?
If so, AWESOME! We ask that each school go to our website to fill out the 2017-18 online application – APPLY HERE
The Application DUE DATE IS AUGUST 18th, 2017, to be included in the September Kindness Week deadline.
If your school plans on participating later in the year, you can choose to fill out the application when you are ready. All Kindness T-Shirt order forms would need to be filled out the FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL if you are planning to celebrate Kindness Week this September (sorry about the chaos). We recommend teachers filling out the form for their own class and then turn them into the office to collaborate (1) MASTER COPY to send into the CKM at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com
Kindness T-Shirt ORDER FORM DUE DATE – AUGUST 30th, 2017. We understand it’s a rush at the first of the year. We apologize, but we will need the time for printing and delivery.
PROGRAM COSTS and DISCOUNTS – The NEW 2017 Kindness T-Shirts will be available to order in the Yellow for the students and staff. We also will have Black as an option for your staff. The Kindness T-Shirt orders made during this first week will receive a KINDNESS WEEK BULK ORDER DISCOUNT of $0.50 discount per t-shirt. The cost will be $4.50 per student ONLY for the August/Kindness Week bulk ordering. If you choose to participate later in the year or re-order t-shirts, the cost will be $5 per student/staff and a min. order of 100 t-shirts. If you need to order less than 100, you can order t-shirts through our website at the pricing indicated. We highly recommend ordering a few extra t-shirts in planning for new students. Remember that the prices above are for Yellow Kindness T-Shirts. The Black Kindness T-Shirts pricing is $6.50 at the discounted school price. The price for each student/staff member includes a Kindness T-Shirt, shipping, taxes, and access to our Kindness Program. That’s a STEAL of a DEAL for an ANNUAL SCHOOL PROGRAM for all your school! If you school administration would like to have polo style t-shirts they are available upon request for pricing. Please contact us through our website.
We have put together a NEW Kindness Begins with Me PLANNING BOOKLET that your PTA/PTO, school councilors, student clubs, and/or teachers can use to implement our annual program. All approved participating schools will be given online access to our password protected Flip Book of our curriculum. We highly suggest printing out the digital content and binding them for your staff to have on hand. The CKM will have these available to purchase at $29.95. All proceeds will go toward funding for a NEW Kindness Video.
The lesson plans are awesome! Our Kindness Begins with Me Planning Booklet was put together by a collaborative CKM Committee. Your staff will be given the tools needed to plan a successful Annual Kindness Program in your schools.
If there are any questions, please contact us at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com.
Kindness Matters,
The Community Kindness Movement
IT ONLY TAKES ONES! A great video that demonstrates empowering “KINDNESS LEADERS” in our schools, out in our community, online, and in our homes.
KINDNESS T-SHIRT DESIGN ANNOUNCEMENT:
Due to an abundant amount of shares and votes, we received 1,000 votes our voting app allotted us, and so we had to end the contest early. The CKM Executives have deliberated. Our Non-Profit Organization was founded on the fundamentals of Kindness and we continue to strive to keep that attribute at the center of all our decision-making.
The CKM would like to announce that the TWO FINALISTS will both be the WINNERS of our 2017-18 Kindness T-Shirt Design Contest. We will be combining elements from each design with a Graphic Designer to come up with our official CKM 2017-18 Design. We will share the design on our May 18th Kindness Day.
We greatly appreciate the HUGE response we received for the contest! Support from the community is important.
Please keep in mind that this was our first year conducting the design contest and know that it was a learning process. We continue to strive to make the CKM better for everyone and to promote more community involvement.
Since we are a Non-Profit, please take into consideration all of our hours of hard work and talents that are given freely by individuals who believe in advocating for the cause and to bring more awareness to our schools and communities to empower ALL of our kids. In the end of all this, it’s all about the well-being of children. Please consider joining in with us and getting involved.
A BIG THANK YOU to all that entered our contest. All the participants did an excellent job. We appreciate your willingness to step up a be a “World Changer”!
Thank you for your understanding and support,
The CKM Executives
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THANK YOU
To all the students that entered our first-year Kindness T-Shirt Design Contest! They did a great job!
The 2017-18 Annual Kindness Theme is: “Being Kind is a State of Mind” – GO IDAHO!
April Kindness Day is Thursday, April 20th, 2017
April Kindness Theme: Be Kind to Yourself, Be Kind to Others, Be Kind to the Earth!
March taught gratitude. April continues to spring forth Attitude of Gratitude towards ourselves, others, and our beautiful communities throughout the State of Idaho.
The first Earth Day was held on, April 22, 1970, and today it is celebrated in over 193 countries each year. Earth Day is on Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. April is a perfect month to teach our children the importance in conserving and beautifying our communities in which we live in.
Does your school currently have a recycling or conserving program that your students can contribute to strengthening this month? If so, perfect! If not, we highly recommend coming up with one that will help teach students the importance in giving back to the environment.
There are MANY great EARTH DAY VIDEO available on Youtube. We suggest finding one that is age appropriate for your classroom. We recommend showing them a video and introducing the Kindness Day Theme the first 10 minutes of class on Kindness Day. We highly recommend coming up with a CONSERVING CHALLENGE for the day or a plan for your classroom to conserve for the entire month of April.
Your School Librarian and/or Teachers can choose to read books during story time that relate to “Being Kind to the Earth”.
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!
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
