{"id":840,"date":"2020-07-26T00:16:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T04:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/?page_id=840"},"modified":"2022-09-09T18:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T22:10:37","slug":"kindness-jar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/healthy-relationship-skills\/acts-of-kindness\/kindness-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class='accordion md-accordion' id='accordion0' role='tablist' aria-multiselectable='true'><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Instructions-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneInstructions-0' aria-expanded='true' aria-controls='collapseOneInstructions-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Instructions<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneInstructions-0' class='collapse show' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneInstructions-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><ul>\n<li>Beans are added to the jar for each kind act that is observed.<\/li>\n<li>Students can nominate others for \u201cBean Awards\u201d when they notice or experience an act of kindness.<\/li>\n<li>When the number of beans in the jar reaches a certain level, there is an acknowledgement associated with that level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: Kindness beans CANNOT be removed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After this practice has been in place for a period of time and a class reward has been enjoyed, have students reflect on how it feels to contribute toward a common goal and to recognize\/acknowledge the kind behaviour of others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Supplementary-resources-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneSupplementary-resources-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneSupplementary-resources-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Supplementary resources<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneSupplementary-resources-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneSupplementary-resources-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/KindnessJar-EDMH-Parents-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Kindness jar, see description below\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1513\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get ready<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gather a large see-through jar and dried beans, small pasta, marbles or jelly beans (or any small item you have a collection of in the house).<\/li>\n<li>Explain to your child that the jar will be used to capture \u201cacts of kindness\u201d for everyone in the family who is participating.<\/li>\n<li>Talk about what an act of kindness is (e.g. sharing a toy with a sibling).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Go<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The beans\/items are added to the jar for each kind act that someone notices someone else doing.<\/li>\n<li>Share with each other when an \u201cact of kindness\u201d is noticed.<\/li>\n<li>The sharing can happen when the family is together, such as during a meal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: This is a great activity that children can share via telephone or video calls with others such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/blog\/online-resources\/easy-and-fun-mental-health-activities-for-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activities to try at home that connect to key areas of social-emotional learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/KindnessJar-EDMH-Parents-scaled.jpg\">Read:<\/a> Have You Filled a Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carol McCloud<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Adaptations-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneAdaptations-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneAdaptations-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Adaptations<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneAdaptations-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneAdaptations-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><ul>\n<li>Could be done as a \u201cfilling buckets\u201d activity, but this is not essential. In this variation, students make \u2018buckets\u2019 and notes are dropped into the buckets (see \u201cSupplementary resources\u201d).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Evidence-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneEvidence-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneEvidence-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Evidence<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneEvidence-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneEvidence-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>Encouraging students to notice kind actions and appreciate their peers contributes to an emotionally positive and safe climate in the classroom, which allows students to stay connected to school (Blum &amp; Libbey, 2004), regulate emotions, and effectively focus on academics (Eisenberg, Fabes, Guthrie, &amp; Reiser, 2000).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='References-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneReferences-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneReferences-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> References<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneReferences-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneReferences-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>Blum, R. W., &amp; Libbey, H. P. (2004). School connectedness \u2013 strengthening health and education outcomes for teenagers. <em>Journal of School Health, 74<\/em>(7), 231-232. doi:10.1111\/j.1746-1561.2004.tb08278.x<\/p>\n<p>Eisenberg, N., Fabes, R. A., Guthrie, I. K., &amp; Reiser, M. (2000). Dispositional Emotionality and Regulation: Their Role in Predicting Quality of Social Functioning. <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78<\/em>(1), 136-157. doi:10.1037\/0022-3514.78.1.136<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Catholic-connection-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneCatholic-connection-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneCatholic-connection-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Catholic connection<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneCatholic-connection-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneCatholic-connection-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>Our Catholic community is stronger when we are able to recognize and value the God-given talents and strengths of others, focussing on seeing the good in them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Catholic-graduation-expectations-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneCatholic-graduation-expectations-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneCatholic-graduation-expectations-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Catholic graduation expectations<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneCatholic-graduation-expectations-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneCatholic-graduation-expectations-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>(1d) A discerning believer\u00a0formed in the Catholic Faith Community who develops attitudes and values founded on Catholic social teaching and acts to promote social responsibility, human solidarity and the common good.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='card'><div class='card-header' role='tab' id='Kindergarten-four-frames-0'><a data-toggle='collapse' data-parent='#accordion0' href='#collapseOneKindergarten-four-frames-0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='collapseOneKindergarten-four-frames-0'><h3 class='mb-0'><em class='fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon'><\/em> Kindergarten four frames<\/h3><\/a><\/div><div id='collapseOneKindergarten-four-frames-0' class='collapse' role='tabpanel' aria-labelledby='collapseOneKindergarten-four-frames-0' data-parent='#accordion0'><div class='card-body'><p>Belonging and contributing:\u00a0to develop relationships with others and contributions and part of a group<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage kindness and respect in the classroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1846,"parent":288,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"practice-template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,34,38,42,130,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-relationship-skills","category-intermediate","category-junior","category-primary","category-promote","category-virtual-option"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/840\/revisions\/2945"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smho-smso.ca\/fw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}