Kindness Matters

Next week our school is taking part in The Great Kindness Challenge.  Along with all the other schools in the St. James Collegiate Family of Schools (Stevenson, Brooklands, Assiniboine, George Waters and SJC) we will spend the week showing how kindness matters.  Visit the website at http://www.greatkindnesschallenge.org/School/event.html

Each of our Grade 4/5 classrooms has three students who have been working hard as members of the Kindness Crew to plan the week's events.  At our kick-off assembly today, the Kindness Crew presented to the school about all the ways we will be focusing on kindness at Linwood all week.

To show our school’s commitment to being kind we will be dressing up each day next week.  All the dress up days have the theme of kindness.

Monday- Tip Your Hat to Kindness Day – wear your hat

Tuesday- I’m Dreaming of Kindness Day – wear your PJ’s

Wednesday – Team Linwood Day - wear your school colours or a jersey

Thursday- Tied Together By Kindness Day- wear tie-dye, a neck tie, or tie your hair up all wacky

Friday  - Peace, Love & and Kindness Day – dress like a hippie or from the 80’s

Two initiatives will run all week long. 

First, we challenge each Linwood Student to do his or her best to do many acts of kindness within our own school.  The members of the Giving Tree group worked together to make a checklist with ideas!  There is one list for Grades K-3 and another for Grades 4 & 5.  At the end of the week, we will count how many acts of kindness have happened at Linwood during the challenge.

 The second week long initiative is a food drive for Winnipeg Harvest.  We learned that almost half of the people who receive food from Winnipeg Harvest are children.  Students are invited to bring a "Tin for the Bin".  A list of the most needed items can be found at http://winnipegharvest.org/10-most-wanted-food-items/. 

Olivia and Taryn telling us about Winnipeg Harvest.

We will also have daily activities where we work as a group in our classrooms to do something kind for others.

Logan, Charlea and Danielle explain the daily activities.

On Monday we will write Kindness Messages.  We are showing kindness to others in our community.  Each class will make messages of kindness to take to the residents at Deer Lodge Centre.

On Tuesday we will help set the Guinness World Book Record for the most Kind-Hearted Handprints.  Each student will make one handprint that symbolizes his/her commitment to kindness.  We will mail them off to California to be added to all the other schools handprints and help set the record!

On Wednesday we are doing a Kindness Swap to show Kindness to others within our school.  Each class will create something to give as a gift to another classroom.  Ask your child which class they are swapping with!

Thursday is the day for our Kind Acts Tally. Using our checklists, we will total how many acts of kindness each class performed.

Friday will be our Kindness Celebration: We will announce the number of kind acts that were done at our school. The Kindness Crew will also tally how many food items were collected this week and announce.

We will also be singing a song about kindness every day.  Thanks to Rooms 4 & 6 for working with Mrs. Wurch to record the song! Click below to listen.