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Third Grade Students Recognized for Kindness

Mallory Pillsbury's third grade class at Yorktown Elementary School entered the “Choose Kind” campaign after reading about it in the Scholastic magazine. The campaign is based on the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio. The book discusses the importance of accepting one another and not bullying those who are different from you.

The author also challenged readers to place a marble in a jar for every act of kindness and send a picture once the jar was full. The first 500 classrooms in the nation to complete the challenge receive an official Choose Kind banner to display outside of their classroom. Once the campaign is over, the campaign company will randomly select 5 of the 500 classrooms to win a pizza party and a video chat with R.J. Palacio!

The YES students started their campaign in early September and completed their classroom jar in early November. They were thrilled to be among the schools to receive a banner and are anxiously awaiting the random drawing.