Kindness Week

Kindness Week is a weeklong initiative that ran from February 14-21. The initiative started right here in Ottawa and is promoted on Twitter using the #kindottawa hashtag as well as the Twitter address via @kindottawa. 
At our school, we participated in a number of school and class initiatives to spread kindness to our friends, our family and to our school! Our class got the opportunity to collaborate both at school and online with a few other classrooms.

At school, we posted a wonder on our Twitter Wall together with Mrs. Swan's Grade 3 class. Our wonder...How do you make Assumption School a Kinder Place? We brainstormed together what that looks like in our school. We talked about how we make our school kind as well as what other people (like teachers, the principal or our friends) do to show kindness around us. Our class was so proud to post their tweet on our Twitter Wall. The grade 2's and 3's use this wall to share with the school their ideas and their learning. Excellent ideas everyone. You can visit our Twitter Wall located beside our classroom whenever you are visiting our school!

Our class also got to share our kindness learning online in a number of fun ways. At our literacy centers, we got a chance to add to our Padlet thinking about kindness. Have a read at our kindness brainstorming: http://padlet.com/wall/grade2kindness
We also created a few kindness stories using the Educreations iPad app. Have a read at some of the stories we made during our literacy centers:

WN: http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/wn-shares-a-kindness-message/17187539/

AB: http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/ab-shares-a-kindness-message/17187361/

FF: http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/ff-shows-kindness/17109073/

Finally, we used Twitter to connect with a few classrooms about how we can be kinder. Twitter is a great way for us to share our thinking and to connect with other classrooms. It is another way that we are practicing our writing and communication skills. Have a look at some of our kindness tweets with Ms. Alvarez's JK/SK class, Mrs. Swan's Grade 3 class and Mr. Robinson's Grade 2/3  class!!