Dear Families,
On our first day together in Grade 1 and 2 we read Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. Throughout the story we talked about ways to show kindness and why treating each other with kindness is important. In the story, the teacher has each student drop a small stone into a bowl of water. As they drop the stone each child shares an act of kindness that they performed. She tells them each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world. It is one of our classroom goals this year to spread kindness throughout our classroom and the BCD campus.
This week we will go on a hike to find “kindness” stones which we will gently drop in water so that we can see the ripples spread wider and wider. Throughout the year, we will be putting paper stones (that we painted and cut) on our Kindness Wall each time one of us is the recipient of an act of kindness.
I hope your child enjoyed our first week of school as much as I did. Thank you so much for sharing your child with all of us here at BCD!
Kay