Cultivating kindness
The Kindness 101 Club at Sorensen Magnet School chose to go green with by embracing gardening for a special project.
Left to right:
Jed Hinkins, Brighton Shute, Hatty Lemmon, Kennedy Tierney, Sunny Monteith, Oceana Stewart-Bryan and James Hrehor.
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Father and daughter Jed and Delilah Hinkins helped with a gardening project as part of the Kindness 101 Club at Sorensen Magnet School.
Third-graders in the Kindness 101 Club at Sorensen Magnet School worked hard to plant more than 200 bulbs around the school Tuesday. Front left to right: Vivian Schwartz, Sunny Monteith, Felicity Cofer, Kennedy Tierney, Hatty Lemmon, Finley Matheson and Eloise Carper Second left to right: Octavia Trautvetter, Charlie Gabriel, Lucille Thomas and Marcus Weinberger Back left to right: Oceana Stewart-Bryan, Brighton Shute, Dante Curry, Sage Lauri, Evie Chambers, Delilah Hinks, Sloan Rayner and Abby Fremouw
Brighton Shute and Oceana Stewart-Bryan were intent on planting bulbs outside Sorensen Magnet School Tuesday.
COEUR d’ALENE — Third-graders at Sorensen Magnet School of the Arts and Humanities recently spread a little sunshine by sowing over 200 bulbs. The students make up the Kindness 101 Club.
Jed Hinkins joined in to help his daughter, Delilah Hinkins, teacher Abby Fremouw and her classmates with planting.
"It makes our community happier and more beautiful," Delilah Hinkins said about the club project.
The group of 20 students meets weekly during recess to discuss how to spread kindness around their school and their community.
For this latest gardening goal, they found a source of inspiration to pick their project.
"We watched a Steve Hartman ‘Kindness 101’ video about an old man that planted 40,000 bulbs to honor his wife," Marcus Weinberger said.
Fremouw said the kids came up with the plan and worked together to bring it to floral fruition.
Mainly gladiolus, tulips and lily bulbs were planted throughout the gardening session.
By getting in touch with their inner green thumbs, the students are hoping to make the others feel the warmth of being a part of the community.
"We love the feeling of kindness," Charli Gabriel said.
That sentiment was echoed by James Hrehor.
"We love being kind," Hrehor said.
Father and daughter Jed and Delilah Hinkins helped with a gardening project with the Kindness 101 Club at Sorensen Magnet School.
Third-graders in the Kindness 101 Club at Sorensen Magnet School worked hard to plant more than 200 bulbs around the school Tuesday. Front left to right: Vivian Schwartz, Sunny Monteith, Felicity Cofer, Kennedy Tierney, Hatty Lemmon, Finley Matheson and Eloise Carper Second left to right: Octavia Trautvetter, Charlie Gabriel, Lucille Thomas and Marcus Weinberger Back left to right: Oceana Stewart-Bryan, Brighton Shute, Dante Curry, Sage Lauri, Evie Chambers, Delilah Hinks, Sloan Rayner and Abby Fremouw
Brighton Shute and Oceana Stewart-Bryan were intent on planting bulbs outside Sorensen Magnet School Tuesday.