Greenfield Elementary focuses on kindness
Lead Summary
By
Kris Davis-
The teachers and staff of Greenfield Elementary are hoping students will find ways to be kind during the holiday season and that the lesson carries on throughout the school year.
The school kicked off their Light up the Hallways with Kindness Program this week with grade level meetings. During the meetings, Mr. Schumm, Greenfield Elementary School’s principal, read the story of “Harry the Happy Mouse.” It is story about a mouse named Harry who lives in the English countryside.
During the story, Harry helps a frog but asks the frog to repay the kindness to someone else. The story then follows the good deed as it moves through other characters, who each selflessly helps someone else, making themselves feel happy in the process.
After the story, the students and Mr. Schumm talked about simple acts of kindness that the students could do on a daily basis at school and at home in hopes that these small acts of kindness would spread through the school and out in to the community. Before leaving the meeting,s Mr. Schumm then sprinkled all the students with kindness confetti as they headed back to class.
As the program continues, students are challenged to perform acts of kindness every day and then write it down on a paper Christmas bulb. As bulbs are completed, they are sent to the office to be hung in the school hallways during the holiday season.
This program was started as a positive reinforcement effort to prevent bullying, reinforcing positive interactions, but the school hopes the habit of being kind will never end.
The school kicked off their Light up the Hallways with Kindness Program this week with grade level meetings. During the meetings, Mr. Schumm, Greenfield Elementary School’s principal, read the story of “Harry the Happy Mouse.” It is story about a mouse named Harry who lives in the English countryside.
During the story, Harry helps a frog but asks the frog to repay the kindness to someone else. The story then follows the good deed as it moves through other characters, who each selflessly helps someone else, making themselves feel happy in the process.
After the story, the students and Mr. Schumm talked about simple acts of kindness that the students could do on a daily basis at school and at home in hopes that these small acts of kindness would spread through the school and out in to the community. Before leaving the meeting,s Mr. Schumm then sprinkled all the students with kindness confetti as they headed back to class.
As the program continues, students are challenged to perform acts of kindness every day and then write it down on a paper Christmas bulb. As bulbs are completed, they are sent to the office to be hung in the school hallways during the holiday season.
This program was started as a positive reinforcement effort to prevent bullying, reinforcing positive interactions, but the school hopes the habit of being kind will never end.