Peculiar Elementary School Counseling

Lesson Plan
Lesson Title: The Kindness Wall
Grade Level: K-2
Big Idea:
PS 2 Interacting with others in ways that respect individual and group
differences

Grade Level Expectations:

K - Identify feelings of others (kindness)
1 - Express feelings effectively, both verbally and non-verbally (kindness)
2 - Identify and demonstrate the interpersonal skills needed to make and
keep a friend (kindness)

ASCA National Standard:

PS:A2.3 Recognize, accept, respect, and appreciate individual differences
PS:A2.8 Learn how to make and keep friends

Learning Objective:
K - 2nd - I can identify what it means to be kind and how to show kindness
to others

Materials Needed:
Butcher paper (the wall)
Colored strips of paper (bricks)

Formative Assessment (acceptable evidence):

Students will provide verbal information about what kindness means to them
and they will provide written information about how to show kindness to
others.

Lesson Preparation:
Essential Questions:
K-2 - What does the word kindness mean?
Engagement/Hook:
Students will watch as the counselor demonstrates kind and unkind
behaviors.

Instructional Procedures:
Counselor(s):
1. Counselor will ask students to define the word kindness.
2. Counselor will provide some demonstrations of kind and unkind behaviors
for the students to decipher (which behaviors are kind and which behaviors
are unkind)
3. Counselor will show students the kindness wall and will explain that it is
empty and needs bricks added to it.
4. Counselor will explain to students that they will need to add kindness
bricks to the kindness wall by taking 2-3 of the colorful bricks (the colred
stips of paper) and writing ways to show kindness on them. They will then
need to decorate the brick and add it to the wall.
5. Counselor will have students share what they added to the wall at the end
of the lesson.
Students:
1. Students will provide their thoughts about what kindess is.
2. Students will watch as the counselor gives a few examples of kind and
unkind behaviors and they will decipher which examples are for which
behaviors.
3. Students will listen as counselor explains the kindness wall to them.
4. Students will listen as counselor gives directions on how to complete the
kindness wall. Students will then create 2-3 bricks for the wall.

5. Students will share their ideas about how to show kindness and which
bricks they added to the wall.