Be Kind® Stick Together® is a FREE, character education program offered to schools and youth organizations by Project Love® and Duck Tape® in an effort to provide a fun and different way for students to explore the important social-emotional learning concepts of kindness and sticking together to combat bullying and negative behaviors.
As part of our ongoing positive behavior instruction and supports theme of developing kindness, four Lakewood High School/West Shore Career Tech students presented this program to Horace Mann 3rd - 5th graders today. Thank you Abbie, Emily, Safiya, and Sophie (and their teacher Emily Stephenson) for leading these great mini-assemblies!
Kids thought about how kindness makes them feel, and unkindness (referred to as bullying in this program...even though there are important distinctions), too. They had the opportunity to use a magic wand to change something about how people act and wrote a personal commitment about doing their part to Stick Together. The highlight of the program was writing their names on Duck Tape and sticking them to a big banner, indicating they are on board!
The Stick Together program has a different activity for younger kids, and we worked with them today, too...with our own Horace Mann spin. The children's book Bomba the Brave tells the story of a rabbit named Bomba who started brave, had trouble with some friends at school, got help from a friend, and then made up with the bully bunny. The book was illustrated by Kim Soderberg, parent of two Horace Mann students. We are grateful to Mrs. Soderberg for joining us today to read the story (written by Denise Dufala), talk about its lessons and show us how to draw Bomba. We hope kids had fun coloring their very own picture of Bomba afterwards. Thank you Mrs. Soderberg for sharing this sweet book and character with us, and to Mrs. Megan Milanich and Mrs. Debbie Baker for helping out, too. We really do hope there will be a Bomba sequel :)
Mrs. Soderberg reads Bomba to our PK and 1st graders
...and then shows us how she draws him from circles!
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