How many Acts of Kindness can you do?  The Great Kindness Challenge will take place during the school year to celebrate our Four Expectations: BE SAFE, BE NICE, BE RESPECTFUL, BE RESPONSIBLE. Students will be given a checklist and encouraged to do as many acts of kindness from the checklist during this celebration week.  Please ask your child what acts of kindness they did and how many they accomplished.  There will be a Family Acts of Kindness Checklist sent home.  Please see how many acts of kindness you can do at home. GGB staff will be given a checklist during this week also. Students are encouraged to wear the color-of-the-day for each day of this week (see below). Let's celebrate kindness and our expectations!

The Great Kindness Challenge

     COLOR-OF-THE-DAY    

-MONDAY-

Yellow to Represent Being Nice

-TUESDAY-

Blue to Represent Being a Friend

-WEDNESDAY-

Green to Represent Responsibility

-THURSDAY-

Red to Represent Respectful

-FRIDAY-

Purple to Represent Being Safe

 

In February 2015, students had the opportunity to participate in The Great Kindness Challenge.  In counseling lessons with the School Counselor, first grade students created a hand-print with a heart in the middle to symbolize each student’s commitment to kindness and discussed ways to show kindness.  For Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and Second Grades, teachers had the opportunity to do this activity with their class too.

 

Why did we do this? The Kids for Peace Organization invited school districts across the United States to help win the Guinness World Record for the "Most Kind-Hearted Handprints."

It’s official! 

George G. Blaisdell Elementary School is a participant in achieving the Guinness World Record for most handprints displayed in a collage!!   375 students and staff from G.G.B. celebrated The Great Kindness Challenge in the 2014-15 school year by coloring a handprint with a heart in the middle; representing kindness.  The handprints we created were mailed to the Dignity Health Hospital in California for Kids for Peace to display them in a collage to break the current record for the Largest Collage of Cut-Out Handprints.  The previous record for the largest collage of cut-out handprints was 30,006 and was achieved by the Scout Association at Baden-Powell House, London, UK, on 10/23/2007. Congratulations students and staff!

KINDNESS MATTERS! 

Melissa Hartman,

School Counselor