Today was as close to perfect as a day could possibly be! We sprinkled celebrations of kindness throughout our entire day from the very beginning to the very end!
We have continued to honor special acts of kindness that we see by adding to our kindness branch. The beautiful gems that hang from it are reminders of the beauty that evolves from kind acts. ESE, you have been working SO hard this week. Your teachers have noticed your thoughtful acts, your generosity, and your gentle heart towards your friends. You have selflessly helped your teachers with jobs, you have given generously to your friends, and you have been kind even when others might not have been as gentle as they could have been with their actions. We have been noticing, and today you got to pick a kindness gem to add to our branch.
Act of kindness are a beautiful way to spread joy and fill others with happiness. But, they aren't the only way! Writing a note, or giving a gift to someone makes them feel special too. Many of our friends brought kindness cards for their friends. As these tokens of friendship were being passed around we couldn't help but notice the joy on the faces of each and every friend.
Kindness gems, and kindness cards for our Birch classmates were an amazing way to begin our day. But our kindness didn't stop with the door of our classroom. We got to spread kindness, along with all of the other friends in our whole school! Today was Ms Angie's birthday and our whole school gathered for a special dance party in her honor!
She was SO surprised, and we could tell she felt the love from the top of her head to the bottom of her dancing feet!
SO much kindness spreading around, but we STILL weren't done yet!
We wanted to focus our friends on each classmate and think about those juicy, extra-exciting words that describe them.
"Let me think. Hmmmm, let me think..." CG
You talked through all of the things your friend MS likes to do and then you declared, "MS is playful!"
JL you looked at your friends picture and told us, "He's a boy." JL
You're right he is.
And then you noticed every part of his photo, eyes, nose, hair color, eye color. As you labeled every part you saw we continued to talk about what you know about your friend.
"HW is beautiful." JL
Friendship is a beautiful thing.
"I don't want to be done. I just want to keep doing kindness." EM
"Do I have to clean up or can I keep writing?" JI
As our young learners thought about their friends and the attributes they possessed we noticed the smiles on the faces of our writers getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
"I just feel so excited because I KNOW they are going to love these!" CG
And that's the thing about kindness, it's contagious!
Look at all of these words our friends declared about one another!
We gathered together and read a book about kindness, and then we got all of the pictures with the words their friends wrote about them.
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