Kindness

We had a lesson in kindness this week. Mrs. Simon showed the class a big red heart. The heart was given to a student and while she read the story, Chrysanthemum, each child crumpled the heart when someone was mean to Chrysanthemum. Once the story was finished the students tried smooth the heart, but it's not quite the same and never will be. We put band-aids on the heart and hung the heart in the classroom as a visual to remind ourselves: Before you speak think and be smart. It's hard to fix a wrinkled heart.