At last count, there were more than 5 million people in 80 countries around the world participating in International Pay It Forward Day. Pay It Forward Day is all about people, from all walks of life, giving to someone else and making a positive difference. For 2017, the goal is to inspire more than 10 million acts of kindness around the world. Imagine the difference that would make! In order to recognize this awesome initiative, students will participate in different activities in school. Please be sure to have a conversation with your child about which activity they are doing within their school building. One of the activities includes writing a random act of kindness/good deed in the middle of a sunflower, which will be provided to the students. The sunflower was chosen because it is the designated symbol on the Pay It Forward official website. The deed can be as big or small a deed as students would like it to be. We will be displaying these sunflowers throughout the hallways, as we did with the boots for No-Name-Calling Week. The second activity involves distributing a "Pay It Forward" card to each student. The idea is for students to do one kind deed for someone else, and then pass the card on to that person requesting they do a kind deed for someone else in return. The cards will then be in circulation throughout the school and/or community. For those teachers in the primary grades who feel their students may be too young to participate with the cards, we thought the cards could still be sent home with students for their parents to participate if they should choose to do so. So why should we Pay It Forward?
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WVCSD Elementary school counselingJeanette Myrick, Children Learn What They Live Archives
May 2017
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