Feelings and kindness
My Feelings Weather Report
Show today’s feelings as weather: sunny, cloudy, stormy or something brand new.
Thinking sheet · Feelings and kindness
Fair or Not Fair?
Read four situations, decide if each is fair and suggest a fairer way.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Kids practice
- fairness, reasoning, problem solving
What kids do
“Is it fair? If not, how could you make it fair?”
- You decide
- Fair doesn’t always mean the same because…
How to run it
- Discuss in small groups before writing.
- Introduce the idea: fair can mean everyone gets what they need.
- There may be more than one good answer.
Talk about it
- Which one did your group argue about?
- Is “the same” always fair?
- How do you fix something unfair?
Take it further
Write a fair rule for sharing the class art supplies.
Pairs well with
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