Cool to be kind: B.C. school is teaching kids how to be nice

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\u0027You start as doing a small kindness, and then it keeps going and going,\u0027 said one grade three student at Watson Elementary School in Chilliwack.

“If we could be that spark of kindness, we could inspire others to do acts of kindness,” Thiessen told her grade-three students in 2018.Photo by Jenna Hauck/The Chilliwack Progress

Many of the gift recipients seemed “caught off guard” at first, she said, though they were all in when the students explained what the project was about. Some were moved to tears.Article contentShe decided to make it a yearly activity for grade-three students at the school. “Every year, we sit down with them and ask them how they want to spend the money,” Thiessen said. “We want them to be part of the process.”Article content

This year, the 100 students split up into several groups to focus on different initiatives. While one group wrote cards and bought small gifts to hand out to strangers, another put together care packages with essential supplies – including toothbrushes, snacks, gloves, socks and sanitizer – for homeless children and teens. Other students made a “teacher appreciation bin” filled with treats and goodies and dropped it off at a nearby school.

 

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Nice - word origin, from latin: Middle English (in the sense ‘stupid’): from Old French, from Latin nescius ‘ignorant’, from nescire ‘not know’.

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