At Spring Hill Elementary, teachers and students joined the Fayette Rocks Kindness Project to write words of inspiration and promote kindness throughout the community.
All 720 students gathered within three different blocks of time to paint rocks and write inspirational words, phrases, or illustrations. Teachers also took part in the project and painted rocks to share with others.
Spring Hill tied the project into their STEAM program. Media Specialist, Jeff Eller, says, “Through STEAM lessons they worked together to solve open-ended problems and share ideas. The kindness rock project highlights the outcome of critical thinking and creativity through design, as well as collaboration and communication, by archiving positive thoughts on the rocks.”
Each rock will be placed throughout the school garden and the community to promote kindness and positivity. Eller hopes that, “students give to the project, and from giving, take what they have given and give more.”
Sara Harp Minter Elementary and North Fayette Elementary have also created “Kindness Rocks” gardens.
Wendy Gallacher, a Fayette resident, started this project back in 2016 after her visit from Florida, where she found inspirational rocks and felt the desire to continue spreading kindness in her own community. The idea of the Fayette Rocks Kindness Project is to write positive messages on a rock and place it somewhere in the community for someone to find and feel encouraged.
Gallacher says her mission, “is to bring positivity, inspiration, and kindness to others in our community through the sharing of creative rocks.” To help continue spreading messages of positivity, Gallacher works with schools to create “Kindness Rocks” gardens.
