The Kindness Challenge

 One of our goals at Shell Lake Elementary school is to teach the whole child and to focus on not only core content subjects but to train students how to treat one another as well.  Our current challenge for staff and students this week and next week is to find as many ways to spread kindness around as we possibly can!  We've given students some ideas, which might inspire us as adults as well.  Everyone could use a little more kindness in their days so how about if we all try to implement a few of these practices such as returning someone else's grocery cart at the store or holding the door open for them.  We could leave kind notes for our mail carriers or garbage collectors and even random notes left somewhere like the library for someone to find and brighten their day.  We might show kindness with gifts like cookies for a neighbor or flowers for someone in the nursing home but even the gift of a smile brings warmth to a gloomy day.  When we all look for ways to show others they matter, it makes the world a better place.  So, let's stay humble and kind...



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