For Prayer Day/National Walk-Out Day, I had one of the 3rd grade classes. I had seen a post fron another middle school teacher that talked about instead of walking out, you could walk up.....walk up to someone and say thank you, walk up and sit with someone that is alone, etc....
The 3rd graders job today was to do the following. They were each given a list of 10 classmates. They had to write a compliment to each student on a small square of paper.
10 compliments to classmates
1 compliment to Ms. Stamps
1 compliment to Mrs. Daigle
+ 5 random acts of kindness to do today
17 total good deeds and acts of kindness
(one for every child lost at the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglass school. Although we did NOT talk about the school shooting, or gun violence, or the significance of that number).
Students then walked around the room, placing the compliments in each students small paper bag. If you could have felt the joy and happiness in this room today. I wish I could have bottled it.
Look at these sweet faces as they read all of their compliments. I can just feel the joy!
We talked about how they felt during this class and how sometimes those that are the angriest are often the saddest and that all we need to do is offer kindness to those around us. We talked about how everyone values something different and special in each other. That "Josh" might value "Ben's" laughter and sense of humor, but that "Jill" might value "Ben's" helping ways.
I have a great feeling that today's task started everyone's day off right.
It sure did mine.
My heart feels happy.
Spread love today.
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