When you leave the bowels of the NYC subway and enter the Port Authority, there are several doors side by side and you must walk through one. As I walked up the ramp towards the doors I passed a woman who was leading her young son with one hand while carrying a tricycle in the other. I walked through the door on the far right and paused to see if she was behind me. She chose the door to the left so I turned around and opened that door for her from the other side.
Now the point of this story is not to mention a random act of kindness I performed. In fact there was nothing random about it (at least from my point of view). To me this was just a normal thing I'm sure anyone would have done. But what happened next made me smile. The woman thanked me and as I turned to walk away I heard her tell her son "see that's an act of kindness...". The rest of her words after that trailed off and I did not hear them as I was already on my way.
So as you see, since we're making October Random Acts of Kindness Month, it must be fate :-)
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I am going make October Random Acts of Kindness in my classroom! I will let you know how it goes. I am going to use children's book Have You Filled a Bucket Today?. It tells the kids when you say/do nice things your fill peoples buckets. It also lets them know when they are not nice they are emptying someones bucket. I'll keep you posted!! Happy Tuesday!- Annie
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ReplyDeleteI have also started "bucket filling" in my classroom this year. My students love telling me what they have done to fill someone's bucket during the day. We have a small bucket they get to place a pom pom in. When the bucket is full, we will have a popcorn party.
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