Thursday, July 23, 2015

Random Acts of Kindness

Every year, I like to focus on performing random acts of kindness involving everyone in the school, and this year was no exception. I decided that we would perform these acts on a grander scale and choose an entire class to surprise.

I visited each of the classes and explained the purpose of the project and what a random act of kindness was. They then had to draw another class's name from a hat and had exactly one month to perform whatever act of kindness that they as a class decided. Each class also had to keep it a surprise as to who their receiving class was going to be until the act was performed.

I placed a heart with the name of each teacher to keep track of which classes had already performed their act. Once that class completed their act of kindness, the good deed was written on a smaller heart for everyone to see.


The smaller hearts show the names of the teachers whose class has not performed their act of kindness yet. The larger pink hearts have been completed to show that Mrs. X's class did a RAK for Mr. Y's class and a brief description of the act follows.

I hung this sign next to the heart to explain to the parents that pick
their children up from daycare about our secret RAK mission. 

On the last day of the month the last class completed their RAK!

There was quite a variety of kind acts and it was great seeing how everyone got involved. I also loved how none of the students would reveal who their class had selected. Some cleaned the other classroom while they were in gym class. One class baked a special treat to bring to the students. Another class read stories and made a craft together, while another made bookmarks for their selected class. One class even prepared a scavenger hunt for a younger class. Everyone seemed to have fun focusing on the act of giving rather than receiving. Mission accomplished!

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