Kindness Counts!

This past November Childtime teamed up with Sprout and began their Kindness Counts campaign. So the teachers in the Toddler, Pre-School and Pre-K classes decided to get the children to recognize what a kind act is, acknowledge when a kind act is done and to promote overall kindness.

Riley's teacher, Ms. Jess, decided to make a Kindness Counts paper link chain. Each time a friend in the class did something that was kind, that child earned a link in the chain. The goal was to get the chain to reach the other side of the classroom. I have to tell you, it has been exciting as a parent to go in each day and see where the chain was that day, I can only imagine what the children thought about it.

Today was the celebration for the Kindness Counts Campaign. It was so sweet to see a gym full of toddlers, pre-schoolers and pre-kindergartners all being recognized for their Acts of Kindness. Each child received a certificate for participating in the campaign. Miss Nikki handed out the certificates, while Miss Missi shared at least one act of kindness the child showed. Riley's act shared was that she used kind words with her friends.

Riley also shared during the ceremony that one of her other acts of kindness was that she shared Beagle (her classroom's stuffed animal puppy) with her friends. Riley informed me that she learned from the Kindness Campaign "that I can really share."

The best picture I could get of Riley receiving the certificate - she ran up and back so fast!!

We're so proud and look forward to continuing to recognize Riley's kind acts at home!