This week we enjoyed the story written by P.K. Hallinan, Heartprints. In this story students learned how actions of kindness leave heartprints, feelings of love and happiness. After the story we brainstormed ideas on how we might leave heartprints here at school and wrote them on a big paper heart. We also talked about hurtful things our friends may do. We wrote these down too on a smaller paper heart. With each hurtful act, we crinkled and tore a the heart to show how it leaves us feeling. While our friends may apologize, our hearts are never quite the same, just like the torn paper heart. We may tape it or try to smooth it out, but it is not the same as it was. We will continue working with the idea of heartprints into next week and allow the students to give each other little paper hearts when an act of kindness occurs.
“And it’s joyful to know in all that we do, the heartprints we give out make us happy too!”
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