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Sagemont School
Teresa Salafrio
Teacher grade 1
Ashley is a first grade student at the Sagemont School
in Weston, Florida. Ashley is six years old. She was chosen
to receive this honor because she has been very helpful with
two new students in our classroom. One of the students does
not speak any English. Ashley always helps him understand
what the activity is and what we are doing. She has also
been very helpful with another student who recently joined
our class. She made this new student feel very welcome in
our class. Ashley did all of this on her own, without anyone
asking. Ashley has truly done a great act of
kindness!
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P.S. 279
Harriet Stolzenberg
Teacher Grade 3
I am very proud of my entire class for their good
deed. The class made cards for veterans around the country.
Not only did they design original cards, but each included a
special message. I'm sure the people who receive them will
have a Veteran's Day to remember.
If you would like your class to participate they can make
cards for the holidays. The cards need to be sent by
December 11,1998 to:
America's Children for America's Heroes
NCOA National Defense Foundation
225 N. Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
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P.S. 279
Terry Engelbert
Teacher grade 3
Kinnari is a third grade student at P.S. 279, in
Brooklyn, N.Y. She definitely deserves the Random Act of
Kindness Award for many reasons. Whenever anyone is sad,
Kinnari is one of the first to go over and console her
friend. She puts her arms around them and tells them that
everything is going to be alright. I always get such a warm
feeling from this. She has such a good heart.
If anything in the classroom needs to be swept or
picked up, she volunteers and never has to be asked. She is
such a great helper.
For this and other reasons I am proud to give Kinnari
this very important award. I am so proud of her and I know
her goodness will be passed on to others.
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Williams Elementary School
Terry Smith
Teacher Grade 5
Joe the Nice Guy
While working on a multi-kid monster making project, Joe
recently was guilty of being an extra nice guy. He had
constructed the head of a friendly monster named
Jabberwocky. Corey was making the monster's hair. It seems
that Corey's hair was not going to fit on Joe's head and it
seemed very likely that a disagreement or worse might
happen. As it turns out, Joe listened to Corey and thought
about the matter and cheerfully agreed to slightly modify
the shape of the monster's head to fit the snake hair that
Corey had already made. Now Joe has to deal with KJ on the
size of the neck!
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Merton School
Nancy Freedin
Teacher grade 5
Last week my students were playing an active game of
soccer outside in the school playing field. The day was very
pleasant but the field was very muddy and messy. One of my
students, Anthony took a spill and was therefore covered in
mud and dirt. ( Apparently quite a sight!)
Most of the students stood around and laughed forgetting
that Anthony was feeling rather embarrassed and extremely
uncomfortable. Justin came to the rescue. He had great
empathy for Anthony. He helped him to clean up and worked at
trying to boost his moral. What made this incident even more
touching was the fact that when I asked the students to
recall a "random act of kindness", Anthony's face
brightened. He very excitedly related the above
story.
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Franklin Academy
Latrisha Sampson
Teacher Grade 4
David Cotter is a fourth grade student at Franklin
Academy. The act that David performed that impressed me is
that one afternoon while the class was playing kickball some
of the children were complaining about not getting a chance
to kick, and how the teams were "unfair". Instead of
complaining and being more concerned about winning David
came to me and suggested that since his team already had a
chance for all its players to kick then they should let the
other team kick. Instead of keeping points we should just
make sure everyone has a chance to kick. This was the
perfect solution and the children were okay with this
solution.
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PS 279 - Annex
Stacey Fauci
Teacher Computer Lab
In our computer lab a student was crying because she
accidentally erased her work before she had gotten a chance
to save it. Jeanne Kelly, a first grader, offered to sit
with her classmate and help her recreate all of her work.
Jeanne said she remembered just what her friend's work
looked like because she was admiring it earlier that day.
Jeanne really "saved" the day!!!
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Royal Palm Elementary
Michele Miletsky
Teacher Grade 1
Being a teacher in an inner city school I see many
random acts of kindness. The ones that stick out in my mind
are the simple ones. For example, last week a new student
joined my class and didn't have any school supplies,
including pencils and erasers. Almost all of my students
offered her a pencil that day. The pencils they offered her
were earned when they passed their spelling tests the week
before. They work hard to earn these pencils. Some of them
didn't have pencils before I gave them one either. They
welcomed this new student with open arms, ready to give up
their "Super Speller" pencils to help a new friend. It may
seem small but to these children it is a big deal to give up
anything at all.
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David Lipscomb Elementary School
Sharon Nikolaus
Teacher Grade 2
Paige, one of my second graders, stays a few minutes
after dismissal to make sure pencils, crayons, paper, etc.
are off the floor so the janitor has an easier time
sweeping. She goes around the room pushing in the chairs at
centers, straightening our room library, or anything else
that needs to be done. Paige never seeks attention for
this, but quietly makes improvements and goes on her
way.
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