Kindness Week

 Kindness Week

World Kindness Day is celebrated on November 13th each year. The third grade class spent this past week spreading kindness. 

The kindness bingo cards were sent home and returned today. There were 155 kind acts done. 

Students also were introduced to the website freerice.com. This is an interactive vocabulary game in which players donate grains of rice to the World Foundation Program every time they answer a question correctly, allowing child to bolster their vocabulary and help feed the world's hungry.

Early in the week, third graders wrote kind notes to the entire STM staff that were very much appreciated. The third grade students also wrote kind notes to the fourth and fifth grade students and taped them to their lockers. Later in the week, the student wrote a letter and colored a picture for someone he/she knew that would brighten their day. The letters were later mailed. Students also colored pictures and wrote kind notes to some of the community workers. Those include doctors, nurses, police officers, firemen, postal employees, and librarians. The class ended the week discussing how each student could "sprinkle" kindness daily. Of course we had to end the week enjoying sprinkle doughnuts.

I asked the staff at STM to be on the look out this week for students exemplifying kindness. Students that received a shout out were Natalie, Quentin, Londyn, and Harper.

I hope STM families are able to celebrate by sharing kindness to others on Saturday, November 13th and throughout the whole year.