The Kindness Retreat
4th or 5th Grade
Trouble viewing this video? Try downloading it here.
The Youth Frontiers Kindness Retreat helps build a more caring school community by engaging students in activities that demonstrate the painful effects of bullying and emphasize the value of kindness. Elementary school students experience the positive effect of the kindness boomerang during a high-energy day with classmates. Students learn that, like the golden rule, if they want to catch kindness, they've got to throw the kindness boomerang out there! The retreat also teaches students how to be a hero by treating others with kindness and challenges them to reduce bullying in their school.
What the Kindness Retreat will do for your school:
- Set a positive tone of kindness and build community among your students
- Help students identify and act on opportunities to show kindness to others
- Reduce incidents of bullying and improve the way students treat each other
Every Youth Frontiers retreat includes a dynamic mix of activities, designed to have the greatest possible impact on participants. Our schedules have been refined through years of contact with more than a million students and educators. Listed below is the general outline of the retreat experience.
- Welcome and group-building activities
- Introduction to the theme of the day: Being kind will make your school a better place
- Small-group activity: time to process the message from the presentation
- Large-group activity
- Presentation: Bullying Hurts
- Small-group discussion: processing time
- Lunch
- Large-group activity
- Presentation: Be a Hero–Be Kind
- Small-group discussion: processing time
- Closing: The Boomerang Challenge. Participants commit to take action based on the day’s retreat topic
The Details:
- Grades: 4 or 5
- Length: 5 - 5.5 hours
- Maximum number of students: 150
- School Portion of Cost for the 2012/2013 School Year:
NOTE: If you are booking your retreat for spring 2012, please call us for pricing details.- Local Price: $2,090 - Within 100 miles of the Twin Cities, Minn.
- Midwest Price: $2,390 - Within Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
- National Price: $2,890
The Kindness Assembly
Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
This one-hour, entertaining assembly, designed especially for students in kindergarten through third grade, lays the groundwork for kindness in your school. Through music, humor, and interactive elements, the Kindness Assembly helps build a more caring school community for your students by demonstrating the importance of including others, apologizing, and being a good friend.
What the YF Kindness Assembly Will Do For Your School:
- Set a positive tone about the importance of kindness to your K-3 students
- Give students specific tools to use in practicing kindness towards others
- Help younger students identify ways they can show kindness that can lead to making a positive difference in your school community
The Details:
- Grades: Kindergarten through grade three
- Length: 60 minutes
- Maximum number of students: 150
- School Portion of Cost for the 2012/2013 School Year:
- Local Price: $895 - Within 100 miles of the Twin Cities, Minn.
© 2011 Youth Frontiers, Inc. address: 6009 Excelsior Boulevard, Minneapolis MN 55416 telephone: 952.922.0222 or 1.888.992.0222 (toll-free)