Grades 4–5
What Does It Mean? Kindness Quotes
Match five sayings about kindness, like “Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” to what they mean, then write about living one.
SEL worksheet · Kindness and empathy
Include or Leave Out?
Circle includes or leaves out for ten things kids do at lunch, at recess and in class, then plan one way to include someone this week.
- Grade level
- Grades 2–5
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Topic
- Kindness and empathy
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Kindness, Empathy, Perspective-taking, Inclusion
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- Including means making sure everyone has a way to join in. Leaving someone out on purpose can hurt as much as unkind words.
- Circle Includes or Leaves out for each one.
- “Come sit with us!”
- Saving every seat at the lunch table for “your”
- Explaining the rules of a game to a new kid.
- Whispering about someone while looking at them.
- Picking a teammate who is often picked last.
- Saying “You can’t play, there are too many.”
Teacher tip
Ask how it feels to be left out, then plan one way the class can include everyone at recess.
How to use it
- Catch kids being kind and name exactly what they did.
- Keep a kindness jar: add a pom-pom for each kind act you notice.
- Use it during morning meeting or right after recess, when the topic is fresh.
Watch for
Kindness that is only for friends. Talk about being kind to people we don’t know well too.
Talk about it
- What is a kind thing you could do right now?
- How might someone else see it differently?
Take it further
Write kindness notes for another class, the office staff or the custodian.
US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.
More kindness and empathy worksheets
Grades 1–5
My Kindness Web
Fill a kindness web with one way to be kind to your family, a friend, someone new, an animal, your teacher and the Earth.
Grades 2–5
Kindness in Action
Read six moments, from dropped books to a kid being teased, and circle the kind thing to do, then write about a kind act you saw.
Grades 1–5
Secret Kindness Mission
Become a secret kindness agent: do five kind acts this week without being asked, then log each mission and who it helped.
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