IN West Jefferson Hills Winter 2016 | Page 60

est Jefferson Hills WE ST J E FFE RSO N H IL L S SC HO O L DI ST RIC T NE WS – M CCLE LLAN E LE M E N TA RY SC HOOL K indness is spreading like confetti here at McClellan Elementary School! Our OLWEUS Bullying Prevention Program is off to a fantastic start this school year. All of the classrooms have been reading books and completing projects and discussions centered on the theme of kindness. Our school-wide project is a “Kindness Bingo” game. Every classroom created a bingo board 58 West Jefferson Hills By Beth Thomas – 4th grade teacher filled with random acts of kindness that students can easily participate in at school. As students catch one another completing the deeds, they place stickers on the game board. The boards are filling up with stickers, and students are really showing how amazing it is to be kind to one another. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in school-wide, monthly service projects. This way the students are spreading the kindness around the community and the school! For the month of October, we started off our service projects with a Halloween candy drive for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh. The day after trick-ortreating, McClellan students brought in candy donations. Our students did not just go to the store and buy the candy. They sorted through their own candy,