Woburn Elementary Students Recognize Citywide Kindness Day

WOBURN — Superintendent Matthew Crowley is pleased to share that the District’s elementary schools recently recognized Woburn’s first citywide Kindness Day by creating “kindness chains.” 

Kindness Day was celebrated on Wednesday, March 20, across the City.

Events and activities for families and community members were held across Woburn to spread kindness. One activity included the creation of a kindness chain at the public library. Community members wrote a past, present, or future act of kindness on a paper strip and added it to the kindness chain, a link of paper slips.

Woburn’s elementary schools — Altavesta, Goodyear, Hurld Wyman, Linscott, Malcolm White, Reeves, and Shamrock — followed suit in emphasizing the importance of kindness by participating in a kindness chain activity of their own.

Students were given strips of paper to write down acts of kindness to be added to each school’s respective kindness chain.

At Reeves Elementary, each student was given a mission to complete five acts of kindness for their teachers and peers over 10 days, and then write them down on strips of paper to be included in the chain.

“Reeves students are no strangers to kindness as this is also the second year they are collaborating with Connor’s Kindness Project to have a two-month kindness challenge during February and March. Any student who completes the challenge gets to bring the completed form to the office and add their name to the Kindness Wall of Fame by the school’s entrance,” said Reeves Elementary School Principal Matthew Comenitz. “The Reeves school motto is ‘Throw Kindness Around Like Confetti,’ and they certainly do!”

To celebrate the completion of the chains, staff and students ventured outside to take pictures as a representation of the abundance of kindness being spread in Woburn’s schools. 

“Our staff and students in Woburn have always placed a large emphasis on kindness. Woburn’s citywide Kindness Day was special in that every member of our tight-knit community could come together to recognize the importance of kindness and spread joy throughout the City,” said Superintendent Crowley. “We are very proud to be a part of the Woburn community, and our District will continue to spread kindness each and every day.”