Lesson 1: Giving Game--Planning to Make The World a
Better Place
Handout 3

Parent/Guardian Letter

Dear Family,

Today, we talked about ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ in our classroom and we decided that no one really feels good about losing (unless of course they are on a diet). We all decided that winning is more fun. We also talked about how there typically are winners and losers in the games that we play, but today we discovered a new game. One in which everyone is a winner!!! The name of this game is the Giving Game and this is how it is played (see www.givinggame.org)

First – Perform a kind act for someone else, such as paying for a cup of coffee or soda for the person behind you in line. The act of kindness can be done secretly or known to the person.

Second – Leave a game card with your kind act. Each game card has a unique ID number. Cards have instructions on the back for the person receiving the kind act to know how to play the Giving Game.

Third – The web site can track the card(s). Since each game card had a unique ID number, you can register you cards(s) at the site that allows you to record your kind act stories and read the stories of others. As your card travels from one kind person to another, you can see what’s happening, who’s involved and which cities and countries it reaches.!

As a family member, your role will be to

  1. encourage your child to participate
  2. record the GGID # on the back of the Giving Game card
  3. help your child decide on a kind act that he/she can do
  4. help your child understand and give the Giving Game card away to the person who receives their kind act
  5. if you have access to a computer and internet, help you child log onto the www.givinggame.org web site and record his/her kind act OR
  6. help your child write about or illustrate their kind act and send this to his/her teacher for recording on the web site
  7. decide if you would like your child to continue to play the game by requesting additional Giving Game cards from www.givinggame.org
  8. continue to support/encourage your child in doing kind acts

 

We so hope that you will help your child play this game in which there are only winners!

Respectfully,