POWELL, Ohio — Everyone knows the main subjects in school: math, science, history, but how about kindness?
What You Need To Know
- The Learning Experience Center in Powell is teaching preschoolers the importance of being kind and giving back
- Students took part in a holiday supply and food drive during the month of December
- The drive is meant to help families in need over the holidays
Practicing kindness is part of the curriculum at a preschool in Ohio.
Kids at The Learning Experience Center in Powell are practicing kindness in the classroom all-year-long and giving back through a one-of-a-kind philanthropy curriculum.
Because of that, kids were participating in a holiday supply and food drive during the month of December.
Five year old Emilia Phillips helped her classmates make one of the donation boxes for the drive, which will support families in need over the holidays.
“I like donating to others,” said Phillips.
Preschool teacher Saranya Sekargopi said it teaches them valuable life lessons.
“If we sow the good things right now,” Sekargopi said. “We are going to reap that when we grow up. So that’s what my thing is… if they get it now, then, when they grow up, they will be a great human being one day.”
Phillips is already getting a hang of it.
“Helping others makes me feel special,” she said.
As she spreads kindness, not only through actions, but through words: “Hope you have a nice Christmas.”
The Learning Experience Centers throughout the state and nation incorporate kindness into their curriculum.