Taking Care with Kindness

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We asked children, "how can we take care of the school?" the other day. Being a good friend was a common theme and the teachers instantly looked at each other smiling because we had a connection moment...

Another classroom, the Children of the Maple Room have been studying kindness throughout the year. They noticed the big wooden hearts all around the community wondering about how to spread kindness. They met with the Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation and that ignited a passion to spread kindness with hearts. 

On a walk inside the building, children noticed the hearts.




DL tallied the number of hearts as we walked



So, the Children of Magnolia went to the Maple Room to see their documentation and learn more about their story. The Maple community invited us in to learn more about their work. We wondered... 

How can we connect taking care with kindness? How can we care for our community? 



Children came back to our room and thought about how to spread care using kindness from the Children from the Maple Room. We asked, "how can we spread our care?" and used the language of paper. 



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