The Montessori Academy at Onesimo Hernandez Elementary School started a “Kindness Week” project that will continue throughout the year.

In school, students study the “3 Rs”: reading, writing, and arithmetic. At the Montessori Academy at Onesimo Hernandez Elementary School, students are practicing something else they’ll need throughout their lives.

“We’re working on kindness,” teacher Cristina Callau said. “I would love them to be kind to one another and to be good citizens, right? Because it’s important that they know how to treat people.”

In Callau’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-grade classes, students turn their kind thoughts into kind words on slips of blue paper that they fold and put in a bucket to read at the end of each day.

“Can I read it?” 3rd grader Gabriel asked, unfolding the note he

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