Students in Barb Gordon's Grade 2 class at Arran-Tara Elementary School are modeling kindness during the season of giving!
Students recently learned about the story, The Man with the Violin, based on the real life experiment of Joshua Bell, an award-winning violinist, who visited a Washington metro station and played his violin for 43 minutes. Of the more than 1,000 people who walked by, only seven stopped to listen for less than a minute. The outcome of the experiment points to the busyness of our day-to-day lives and our fear. Joshua earned $32.17 that day when he is regularly paid over $100 per ticket when performing at a concert.
As a follow-up to the story, the students were each given $1, but not to spend on themselves. Each was encouraged to pause from their busyness and consider something they could do with their dollar that would make a difference for someone else. The point of the exercise was to show the students how one small act could grow into something huge!