Each Kindness

I used _Each Kindness_ by Jacqueline Woodson with the first grade "heart talk" lesson this week.  It's a great tie in and specifically addresses a friendship "missed opportunity."  Sometimes we don't get a second chance to be a friend .   .   .  it's a picture book, but one appropriate for all ages.  I had some good discussion with kiddos about how the story makes you feel.  We pretended to be Maya in the story and how she might have used a "heart message" to communicate with Chloe, Kendra and Sophie.  We also used a free iPad app--Ripple HD--to review ways to share kindnesses (kiddos "touched the water" as they explained a way).  "Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world .  .  .  Each kindness makes the whole world a little bit better."  How can you be kind?