I absolutely love our school's motto: "Live Kind. Choose Happiness. Unleash Learning." How true that the first two need to take place before learning can happen! To have an administrator that not only believes that, but inspires teachers and students to live that every day, is truly a blessing.
We have a student leadership team, and one of its subgroups has set out to spread kindness. With the help of our art teacher, we decided to make our own living art piece. Students set out to spread the word about kindness by making videos for our school news and visiting classrooms to talk about kindness. They read the book Plant a Kiss by Amy Rosenthal. If you don't own it, it's a must have in all classrooms! Although it's simply put, it's great for all age groups! It led to some great discussions. See the trailer below.
We have a student leadership team, and one of its subgroups has set out to spread kindness. With the help of our art teacher, we decided to make our own living art piece. Students set out to spread the word about kindness by making videos for our school news and visiting classrooms to talk about kindness. They read the book Plant a Kiss by Amy Rosenthal. If you don't own it, it's a must have in all classrooms! Although it's simply put, it's great for all age groups! It led to some great discussions. See the trailer below.
The students were so excited to then have ribbons to hand out once they "caught" random acts of kindness. Our teachers participate as well, and it has turned into an amazing piece of ever changing art. Check out the before and after pictures!
If we could all strive to continually ask ourselves, "How are my actions showing kindness?" then I believe we can all make a difference in making this world a better place.
