Adrian Middle and High School
From the Desk of Chancy Glynn, Middle and High School Counselor
During the week of January 22nd-26th, all students are challenged to complete as many kind acts as possible! The Great Kindness Challenge is a proactive and positive bullying prevention initiative that improves school climate and increases student engagement. The Great Kindness Challenge is one week devoted to performing as many acts of kindness as possible. http://www.greatkindnesschallenge.org/ In 2017, over 10 million students in 15,057 schools participated in the Great Kindness Challenge completing over 500 million acts of kindness!
Events for the week will include daily kindness inspiration, daily kindness challenges, and Spirit Days! (See the back of this letter for Spirit Day details.) We will also have a Kind Coin Collection for the Bates County Children’s Center. Middle and high school will compete against elementary. The building bringing the greatest amount will earn an “I Dream of Kindness Day” to wear their pajamas to school on Friday, February 2nd. (Collection buckets will be in the cafeteria.)
To showcase the kind acts our students do every day, we will create a Kindness Photo Collage. Please take a picture of your student completing a kind act at home or in the community and email it to Chancy.Glynn@adrian.k12.mo.us to be included in the collage.
Adrian students are challenged to complete as many kind acts as possible this week. You can get ideas from the list below!
Spirit Days Kindness Challenges:
Monday‑ Say Nice Things Day (Give a heartfelt compliment to 3 people who are not your friends!) Tuesday‑ Keep Our School Beautiful Day (Pick up every piece of trash you see!)
Wednesday‑ Give a Smile Day (Smile and say “good morning” or “good afternoon” to 15 people!) Thursday ‑ Make New Friends Day (Invite someone new to eat lunch with you!)
Friday‑ Blackhawk Pride Day (Wear black & gold and show the kindness in our Blackhawk Pride ‑ final day for Kind Coins for the Children’s Center!)
Other Ideas for Kind Acts
Push in chairs around you
Say “yes” if someone new Make a new friend
Hold the door open for someone
Share a pencil with someone that needs one
Pick up something off the ground that someone dropped (like trash or gloves)
Give compliments to people who aren’t your friends
Offer to help a classmate do something
Say “sorry” for things you did by accident
Cheer up someone who is sad
Listen carefully when a classmate or teacher talks to you
Think about others (“Would I like that if someone said/did that to me?”)
Learn something new about your teacher
Give a kind picture to someone
Write a kind note to a classmate you don’t usually talk to
Say “thank you” to the custodian
Give a kind note to a teacher
Offer to help your teacher
Say “thank you” to your bus driver
Listen to your teacher the first time
Whisper “thank you” to the librarian
Be on time for school
Make a friendship gift for someone new to you
Recycle
Tell a kind joke to make someone laugh
Follow directions the first time
Step up for someone in need
If someone says something mean about anyone, ask them to stop
Tell the cafeteria workers “thank you”
Walk appropriately in the halls
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