Gosport Elementary School students sit Friday amid the kindness chain, which was made by the 150 kids who attend the Owen County school and totaled 1,847 links — each representing an act of kindness performed by a student in the month of February. (Laura Lane / Herald-Times)
GOSPORT — The February word of the month was “empathy” at Gosport Elementary School, where students focused on kindness while learning the importance of understanding how other people feel by imagining walking in their shoes.
Principal Carol Watson challenged the 150 kids at her school to undertake random acts of kindness to help others. They wrote their name and what they had done on a half-inch-wide strip of construction paper, and each became a link in a colorful chain the students stretched across the school playground Friday.
The chain was long: 1,847 blue, green, pink, orange, yellow, purple and red links representing 1,847 kind acts by children.
“I noticed that my mom was having a hard time with the baby. I helped by feeding her, all by myself,” a third grader wrote.
“My brother couldn’t get his glove on,” another third grade link said. “I helped by pushing the glove on.”
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