Mrs. Pilon's 7th grade ELA students were invited to enter a writing contest called "Fright Club" through the Young Writers website. Students were given the challenge of writing a suspenseful or spooky mini-story limited to 100 words or less. Ten students entered the contest. This contest had over 50,000 entries nationwide. All ten writers were selected to have their work published in a book that will be released in April! Each writer also received a bookmark and certificate for entering.
Congratulations to Alexa A., Jameson M., Ella B., Harper T., Cameron C., Dennis R., Amelia N., Eva T., Jenna H., and Caedan M.!
6th Grade W.E.B. - Walking in Another's Shoes
This month's 6th grade WEB lesson was called "Walking in Another's Shoes." We talked about what the words kindness, compassion and empathy mean. We watched a video about kindness. In the video a person was making fun of someone homeless for not having shoes. A girl gave the homeless person shoes and was able to positively influence the boy making fun of the homeless person. After the girl gave him shoes the boy quickly apologized and felt bad for his actions. The video taught us about compassion, empathy and kindness. Next we designed a sneaker that talks about positive traits about ourselves; who we are as an individual both inside and outside of the classroom. We then hung our sneakers on the outside of our lockers. The message that we learned from this lesson was that Empathy + Action = Compassion.
Written by Annabella S., 6th grader
7th Grade W.E.B. - Throw Kindness Like Confetti
We started our WEB Wednesday by talking about the word compassion and kindness and how we can show compassion for others. We talked about helping the less fortunate and doing nice things for others without expecting things in return. We watched a video about someone stepping in and doing something nice for a homeless person by giving them a pair of shoes and money after someone was unkind to them. We then wrote 3 nice things that we had done for another person that showed kindness or compassion. We completed the post it notes and hung our post-its on the door with the saying "Spread Kindness Like Confetti."
Written by Greyson Q., 7th Grader
8th Grade W.E.B. - Chain of Kindness
The 8th grade class watched a video of different scenarios and identified times when different characters displayed compassion or kindness. We talked about 100 different ways to be kind to another person. We were then given 2 strips of paper and wrote down kind things we did on one strip and a way we can show compassion to another person on the other strip. We then took the two strips and made it into a heart. We took every 8th graders heart and stapled them together making it into a giant chain of kindness and compassion and hung it in the cafeteria for people to read.
Written by Brynn W., 8th Grader
