This year, one of our school goals has been to focus how we teach and encourage kindness, respect and compassion towards others. As a faculty, we read Choosing Civility
by P.M. Forni. His 25 Rules for Considerate Conduct became launching point for many of us. One of my colleagues posted these words outside of her first grade classroom at the beginning of the school year. and soon the "garden" bloomed with paper flowers made by her students. I smile each time I pass the board. Written by Henry Wadsworth Lpngfellow , these word have often been used as a children's nursery rhyme.
Kind hearts are the gardens.
Kind thoughts are the roots.
Kind words are the flowers.
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds.
Fill it with sunshine,
Kind words and kind deeds.
This week's Poetry Friday roundup is hosted by Karen Edmisten.
