Community Preschool kids cultivate good will with ‘kindness rocks’

| May 19, 2021 | Comments 0

The Chester Community Preschool recently received a $500 grant from the Kindness Rocks Project, giving children a chance to paint rocks and have them inscribed with upbeat and inspirational sayings. The project centers around social and emotional learning and also includes workbooks and posters about kindness. Under their teachers’ guidance, the pupils on Tuesday placed their rocks around the base of a tulip tree on the grounds of the preschool. Click on any photo to launch gallery. All photos by Cynthia Prairie.

Pupils at Chester Community Preschool show off the kindness rocks they helped paint.
Their teachers help get them sorted out for a photo.
The colorful rocks bear such messages as ‘Be kind’ and ‘Joy.’
One pupil holds two rocks with the messages ‘Peace’ and ‘Believe you can.’
The rock garden cultivates good will.
The early childhood educators are, from left, Hanna Brooks, Randi Spittle, Kathleen Karl and Jodie Peebles.
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About the Author: Cynthia Prairie has been a newspaper editor more than 40 years. Cynthia has worked at such publications as the Raleigh Times, the Baltimore News American, the Buffalo Courier Express, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Patuxent Publishing chain of community newspapers in Maryland, and has won numerous state awards for her reporting. As an editor, she has overseen her staffs to win many awards for indepth coverage. She and her family moved to Chester, Vermont in 2004.

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