If you’re on my email list, you know that I’ve been having a battle with myself: to elf, or not to elf? (If you’re not on my email list, let’s be friends! Sign up here!)
I’ve been going back and forth since Thanksgiving trying to decide if I should bring the elf to our classroom this year. Two years ago, it was a HUGE hit. Our classroom was a magical place with special elf journals, a magic mailbox, and an elf that wrote letters back and forth to my delighted students. Last year, our elf went back to The North Pole. (enough said)
Well, I’ve finally made a decision. My kids are going to earn our elf this year. How? I’m glad you asked! We’ve been a little C.R.A.Z.Y in room 23 the past week or so, so I’ve decided I want to tap into our kindness to hopefully help us simmer down for the last 10 days of school. Because what I DON’T want is for the elf to make us spiral into even more craziness. (Yes, I know, I try to promote the fun in kindergarten, but there’s only so much a girl can take!)
So here’s the plan. We’re going to have 5 kindness challenges. One each day. And if we can successfully complete each challenge, our elf will come next Monday to join us for our last week before break.
These aren’t gonna be hard things for my kids to do, but some nice things we can do as a class to promote kindness and classroom community. I WANT them to be successful, so they can see that it feels good to be kind!
If you want to try this with your class too, click here to grab it for free! It’s editable too, so you can add your own kindness challenges! Enjoy!
-Gina
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Wow, this challenge is really amazing and thank you for always giving us the ideas of new challenges. Keep it up and keep sharing your great work