Caring and Service Learning - #5

Earth group read the book  The Goodness Gorillas (Chicken Soup for Little Souls) by Lisa McCourt and Pat Grant Porter.  The story is about a group of children who do random acts of kindness for the community (like picking up garbage and recycling) and then they are challenged to be the "ultimate GG" by showing kindness to a boy who likes to tease them.  After we read the book we talked about random acts of kindness.  When all of a sudden Jeffery stood up and put away his toy and another toy that was on the floor.  When I asked him why he did that, he said "because we are in group time now."  We celebrated by giving Jeffery the "principled" t-shirt!

Then we wondered what sort of random acts of kindness we could do at creative minds.   When a child thought of something,  we "adorned him" with the red gorilla, and watched what she / he was doing.  It was wonderful to see the children make the connection between their actions and their intentions.

Pauline offered to sharpen a pencil crayon for Jeffery

Today the children were inspired to clean the paint easel, all of the tables and chairs, and organize the pencil crayons and felt pens.  We were sure to record these acts of generosity on their generosity boards!