Be kind 2025

Happy 2025, Wonderful Watershed Explorer Scientists.

 

We did some amazing work in 2024. Let's keep it going.

Many of you have been asking about challenges. There are numerous challenges under the challenge tab above that you can still try, but I have a new challenge for you. This challenge can be done any time from now until our last field trip in May.

This challenge idea came from finding out that February 9-11 is random acts of kindness week, and February 17 is random acts of kindness day. In celebration of these wonderful celebrations, I challenge you to be kind. I don't know if you know this, but kindness is contagious...I know what you are thinking, "Like the flu?" Well, sort of! A study done by researchers at UCLA found that when someone is kind to someone else, the person who received the kindness experiences something called elevation. Elevation makes others feel better about themselves and the world and it also makes them more likely to be kind to others. I LOVE THIS!!!

Here is how this challenge works: You share kindness. Someone else feels good, and possibly passes the kindness on, you get rewarded with a prize from our prize bag!

In order to receive a prize, you must write a short paragraph about how you showed kindness and hand it in to Mrs. Morissette. Your act of kindness can be small or big. You can smile at a passing stranger, hold the door for someone coming behind you, make your teacher a special thank you card for all that they do for you, or so much more. 

Please check out the website randomactsofkindness.org to get some great ideas and read about the movement. I hope that you will try this challenge. We can all use a little more kindness in 2025. 

Thank you for all of your hard work!

Mrs. M.