[LM_NET] Elementary Project

[Anne Mlod <summer_reading@MAC.COM>]

I recently read the story "Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed" by  
Emily Pearson to a third grade class in my school.  The story  
illustrates the concept of paying it forward (doing something nice for  
someone else after you have been the recipient of an act of kindness).

This third grade teacher and I collaborated on a 'Pay It Forward"  
project which involved sending "pay it forward" boxes to twelve third  
grade classes and keeping track of the acts of kindness that resulted  
(we won a $500 grant from our local newspaper to do this).  We are  
opening up this project to other classrooms and I would like to invite  
elementary LMS to either forward the website link below to your  
classroom teachers, or take on the project with classes in your  
school.  All of the details are one the website:

http://www.thirdgraderspayitforward.net

Our students wrote a letter to our Mayor, who proclaimed April 29th  
"Pay It Forward Day" in our city, and we also contacted our New York  
State Senator who submitted a resolution requesting a similar  
proclamation for New York State.  Our students have discovered from  
this project that they can make a difference, and I would like to  
invite other classes to join us as we strive to reach 1,000 acts of  
kindness by the end of the school year!

Anne Mlod
Library Media Specialist
Genesee Elementary School
Auburn, NY 13021
summer_reading@mac.com

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!
~ George Elliston

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