The Center for Healthy Minds KINDNESS CURRICULUM Reading List

I love children's books, and maybe you do too... 

Video: Kindness in the Classroom - Kindness Curriculum Overview ~ 

All the videos of 17 children's books listed in the pre-K-K Kindness Curriculum, so generously provided to us by The Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, are posted in this Kindness Curriculum playlist.

Two of my favorites, I'm the Best by Lucy Cousins and Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry Lee MacLean are also suitable for older children (and grownups). Little ones love the musical rendition of How Kind! by Mary Murphy.

You can download the Kindness Curriculum, with 24 lesson plans, here: https://centerhealthyminds.org/join-the-movement/sign-up-to-receive-the-kindness-curriculum You will need to sign up in order to download.

I recorded two of the books:

Video: Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace by Shelley Moore Thomas  

Video: In My World by Lois Ehlert

A list of all 17 videos, with links to the videos in the Kindness Curriculum playlist: 

Video: Sumi's First Day of School by Soyung Pak - 1/17

Theme: Growing Friendships with Kindness

 

Video: A Quiet Place by Douglas Wood - 2/17

Theme: Quiet Emotions on the Inside 

 

Video: The Listening Walk by Paul Showers - 3/17

Theme: I Can Notice Things When I Am Quiet Inside 

Video: Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood - 4/17

Theme: Different Emotions Feel Differently on the Inside 

 

Video: I'm the Best by Lucy Cousins - 5/17 

Theme: Working with Emotions in a Kind and Friendly Way 

(This one's suitable for any age.)

Video: Dogger by Shirley Hughes - 6/17

Theme: Emotions Change Many Times Each Day  

Video: Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry Lee MacLean - 7/17

Theme: Busy Mind & Clear Mind: Being with Anger 

(This one's also suitable for any age.) 

Video: When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really Angry... by Molly Bang - 8/17

Theme: What Can We Do When We Are Upset?  

 

Video: Down the Road by Alice Schertle - 9/17

Theme: Forgiving Myself ~ Forgiveness  

 

Video: Gracias Thanks by Pat Mora - 10/17

Theme: Gratitude for People or Things in My Life & All That We Have  

 

Video: All of Me! A Book of Thanks by Molly Bang - 11/17

Theme: Gratitude for My Body

Video: What's My Job? by Lyn Calder - 12/17

Theme: Gratitude for Other People 

 

Video: Can You Say Peace? by Karen Katz - 13/17

Theme: People Around the World Want Peace

 

Video: Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace by Shelley Moore Thomas - 14/17

Theme: Interdependence

Song video: How Kind! by Mary Murphy - 15/17

Theme: Interdependence - Passing kindness on to others

 

Video: Hey, Little Ant by Phillip & Hannah Hoose - 16/17

Theme: Caring for Animals & Insects

 

Video: In My World by Lois Ehlert - 17/17

Theme: Gratitude & Caring for Our World  

 

Kindness in the Classroom - Kindness Curriculum Overview video (first video above) and related videos can also be viewed and downloaded here: https://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/71603754-9eeb-4701-b7c5-c19df61bb919/kindness-in-the-classroom/

 

Janna's Kindness Education playlist

Kindness Curriculum books are available for purchase in Janna's Bookshop

 

May 2023 be a year of kindness, compassion, inner peace and healing for all humanity, all sensitive beings and the earth.