Daniel Street Students End the School Year with Kindness

The students at Daniel Street Elementary School recently took part in a special “kindness rock” afterschool activity. The event invited the students and their parents or caregivers to paint special messages of kindness on small stones. It was the culmination of a year of character education activities at the school.

Students were provided stones and paint markers and encouraged to draw messages of kindness in whatever creative way they could envision. The activity was inspired by Scribble Stones, a children’s book by Diane Alber. After the students completed their stones, they were treated to a special read-aloud of the book.

Throughout the year, Daniel Street students engaged in activities such as character education choice boards, read-alouds, and activities aimed at nurturing the development of admirable character qualities. The kindness rock event served as a year-end culmination of these activities, and gave the students an opportunity to express the character quality of kindness in their own unique ways.

Students were encouraged to bring their stones home, and help continue spreading kindness, and some students chose to donate their rocks to the school to be placed out front or in the school garden. The event was organized by the Daniel Street Compact Committee.

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