Glen Cove Students Kick Off School Year With Lesson On Kindness

Glen Cove City School District second-graders in Coleen Brunhuber and Jennifer Hajok’s class at Gribbin School participated in a lesson about spreading kindness as a beginning of the year, community-building activity.

The teachers feel it’s important for the kids to accept and treat each other with respect and kindness. They shared that together with students, they become a classroom family and take care of each other all year long.

The class had fun doing the activity. First, they read the book “Jelly Donut Difference,” by Maria Dismondy. They then decorated a picture of a donut that included “sprinkles” with acts of kindness written on them, picked one act of kindness and constructed a sentence about it.

Story, Photo courtesy of the Glen Cove City School District: Gribbin School second-graders (from left): Akira Yamaji, Isaac Hernandez and Gabriel Cardoza showed off their kindness donuts.