Bullying and Suicide Prevention
Bullying and Suicide Prevention
Is your school planning on joining us this next year and implementing our Kindness Begins with Me Bullying Prevention Program?
If so, AWESOME! We ask that each school go to our website to fill out the 2017-18 online application – APPLY HERE
The Application DUE DATE IS AUGUST 18th, 2017, to be included in the September Kindness Week deadline.
If your school plans on participating later in the year, you can choose to fill out the application when you are ready. All Kindness T-Shirt order forms would need to be filled out the FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL if you are planning to celebrate Kindness Week this September (sorry about the chaos). We recommend teachers filling out the form for their own class and then turn them into the office to collaborate (1) MASTER COPY to send into the CKM at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com
Kindness T-Shirt ORDER FORM DUE DATE – AUGUST 30th, 2017. We understand it’s a rush at the first of the year. We apologize, but we will need the time for printing and delivery.
PROGRAM COSTS and DISCOUNTS – The NEW 2017 Kindness T-Shirts will be available to order in the Yellow for the students and staff. We also will have Black as an option for your staff. The Kindness T-Shirt orders made during this first week will receive a KINDNESS WEEK BULK ORDER DISCOUNT of $0.50 discount per t-shirt. The cost will be $4.50 per student ONLY for the August/Kindness Week bulk ordering. If you choose to participate later in the year or re-order t-shirts, the cost will be $5 per student/staff and a min. order of 100 t-shirts. If you need to order less than 100, you can order t-shirts through our website at the pricing indicated. We highly recommend ordering a few extra t-shirts in planning for new students. Remember that the prices above are for Yellow Kindness T-Shirts. The Black Kindness T-Shirts pricing is $6.50 at the discounted school price. The price for each student/staff member includes a Kindness T-Shirt, shipping, taxes, and access to our Kindness Program. That’s a STEAL of a DEAL for an ANNUAL SCHOOL PROGRAM for all your school! If you school administration would like to have polo style t-shirts they are available upon request for pricing. Please contact us through our website.
We have put together a NEW Kindness Begins with Me PLANNING BOOKLET that your PTA/PTO, school councilors, student clubs, and/or teachers can use to implement our annual program. All approved participating schools will be given online access to our password protected Flip Book of our curriculum. We highly suggest printing out the digital content and binding them for your staff to have on hand. The CKM will have these available to purchase at $29.95. All proceeds will go toward funding for a NEW Kindness Video.
The lesson plans are awesome! Our Kindness Begins with Me Planning Booklet was put together by a collaborative CKM Committee. Your staff will be given the tools needed to plan a successful Annual Kindness Program in your schools.
If there are any questions, please contact us at CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com.
Kindness Matters,
The Community Kindness Movement
We are excited to present our NEW 2017 Kindness T-Shirt Design! We appreciate all the students that submitted design entries and want to extend an invite to all those participants to act in a role in our next Kindness Video. We will send out more information soon.
Our CKM Committee has been working hard to plan the 2017-18 Kindness Program for next year. We have it available now on our website. Please click on the link below. We highly recommend your school printing these out as booklets for each of your teachers. The Kindness Day Lesson Plans will be a tremendous help in planning the Kindness Theme for the month and each month’s Kindness Day.
https://www.communitykindnessmovement.com/ckm-2017-18-kindness-program/
More announcements and information will be coming soon!
KINDNESS T-SHIRT DESIGN ANNOUNCEMENT:
Due to an abundant amount of shares and votes, we received 1,000 votes our voting app allotted us, and so we had to end the contest early. The CKM Executives have deliberated. Our Non-Profit Organization was founded on the fundamentals of Kindness and we continue to strive to keep that attribute at the center of all our decision-making.
The CKM would like to announce that the TWO FINALISTS will both be the WINNERS of our 2017-18 Kindness T-Shirt Design Contest. We will be combining elements from each design with a Graphic Designer to come up with our official CKM 2017-18 Design. We will share the design on our May 18th Kindness Day.
We greatly appreciate the HUGE response we received for the contest! Support from the community is important.
Please keep in mind that this was our first year conducting the design contest and know that it was a learning process. We continue to strive to make the CKM better for everyone and to promote more community involvement.
Since we are a Non-Profit, please take into consideration all of our hours of hard work and talents that are given freely by individuals who believe in advocating for the cause and to bring more awareness to our schools and communities to empower ALL of our kids. In the end of all this, it’s all about the well-being of children. Please consider joining in with us and getting involved.
A BIG THANK YOU to all that entered our contest. All the participants did an excellent job. We appreciate your willingness to step up a be a “World Changer”!
Thank you for your understanding and support,
The CKM Executives
The 2017-18 Annual Kindness Theme is: “Being Kind is a State of Mind” – GO IDAHO!
The CKM would like to remind you of our Kindness T-Shirt Design Contest that ends this Friday, April 21st. Please remember to submit your digital or hand-drawn entries to CommunityKindnessMovement@gmail.com.
We want to give a SHOUT OUT to the Liberty Elementary PTA for fundraising their funds for Kindness T-Shirts for the 2017-18 school year! It is that time of year again. If your school is thinking about joining us next year, we highly recommend putting together your school’s fundraising plan. We do have the new 2017-2018 fundraising packets available if needed.
HAVE A WONDERFUL KINDNESS DAY!
Go out and enjoy the BEAUTY of the EARTH!
March taught gratitude. April continues to spring forth Attitude of Gratitude towards ourselves, others, and our beautiful communities throughout the State of Idaho.
The first Earth Day was held on, April 22, 1970, and today it is celebrated in over 193 countries each year. Earth Day is on Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. April is a perfect month to teach our children the importance in conserving and beautifying our communities in which we live in.
Does your school currently have a recycling or conserving program that your students can contribute to strengthening this month? If so, perfect! If not, we highly recommend coming up with one that will help teach students the importance in giving back to the environment.
There are MANY great EARTH DAY VIDEO available on Youtube. We suggest finding one that is age appropriate for your classroom. We recommend showing them a video and introducing the Kindness Day Theme the first 10 minutes of class on Kindness Day. We highly recommend coming up with a CONSERVING CHALLENGE for the day or a plan for your classroom to conserve for the entire month of April.
Your School Librarian and/or Teachers can choose to read books during story time that relate to “Being Kind to the Earth”.
The Community Kindness Movement had the opportunity to launch three awesome Kindness Assemblies last week, for Hillsdale and Park Ridge Elementary. We want to give a warm welcome to our 23rd and 24th school that have implemented our annual “Kindness Begins with Me!” Bullying Prevention Program. We greatly appreciate all our KIND SPONSORS for funding 1200+ Kindness T-Shirts for each student and staff member. Your KINDNESS and GENEROSITY continues to empower our children and to build a better and safer learning environment throughout the State of Idaho.
The CKM is excited to report that we have funded 15,201 Kindness T-Shirts since we began in September of 2015. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to our success the last two years. Your kindness will always be remembered and because of you, we have been able to inspire kindness to several children.
The KINDNESS WEEK video can be shown to Hillsdale and Park Ridge Elementary students this next Kindness Day, February 16th. All our videos are available on our website to use and to share at www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com/videos or you can also use our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJyPApNCl18YOuIhlf6jcXw
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO:
Idaho Community Foundation
– Children’s Charity of Idaho Fund
– Miles and Virginia Willard Fund
– Unrestricted Eastern Region Fund
New Day Products and Resources
Park Ridge Elementary PTA
Park Ridge Elementary
House of Design, LLC
208 Real Estate – Carlie Seamons
Kenyon Enterprises
Red Sofa Company
Timberline Mortgage Idaho
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY KINDNESS MOVEMENT!
JANUARY SPOTLIGHT: Give a warm welcome to our 2017 CKM Executive Officers and Board of Directors!
The CKM will celebrate a KINDNESS WEEK this month, JANUARY 23rd-29th! We invite your school to join us. All resources available on our website at www.CommunityKindnessMovement.com and you can follow us for announcements on our FB page www.Facebook.com/CommunityKindnessMovement.
January Kindness Day Theme: “We are BUCKET FILLERS”
What a great way to start off the new year by building Bucket Fillers in your classrooms. Next Thursday, January 19th, we will be celebrating our first KINDNESS DAY in 2017, we want to make it a good one! Remind your staff and students to wear the Yellow Kindness T-Shirts. We have several bucket filling activities and ideas that your teachers or librarian can implement this month.
There are many wonderful books available to read to your students on how to promote a school of Bucket Fillers. For KINDNESS DAY, the book, “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”, is accessible on YouTube and can be shown to your students in the classrooms on the smart boards. There are activities below that your teachers can also use for Kindness Day.
BUCKET FILLER ACTIVITIES and CLASSROOM IDEAS
Bucket Filler Crossword Puzzle
Classroom Bucket Filling Activity
