Lower School Students Promote Kindness and Peace

9/25/2025

Kindness is like a boomerang when you throw it out because it comes back to you! Kindergarten and Grade 5 students turned that message into a visual project as they worked together recently to create a Kindness Chain during Buddy time.

The students began the morning getting to know one another through conversation starters before watching a video titled Kindness Boomerang. The students were asked to think about what acts of kindness they observed and make connections on how they can spread kindness around the school community.

For the activity, the students brainstormed different words and discussed what choices can be made to spread the kindness boomerang. Using markers, the words were written on a strip of colored construction paper. Each buddy pair linked their strips together to create a paper chain, which visually represented how kindness creates a chain reaction.

As a school community, students in Kindergarten through Grade 6 participated in the global project Pinwheels for Peace in celebration of International Day of Peace, which took place on September 21. The collaborative art installation encourages students to spread messages of harmony and unity.

Pinwheels for Peace has become a Lower School staple for over 10 years. In art class with teacher Sue Bennett 1973, the students used crayons to colorfully draw designs of peace symbols, flags, hearts, or any image of their choice on light-weight paper. All the pinwheels were placed outside the Lower School Art Cottage.

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