Orange, Orange and More Orange

Special thanks to the third graders at Lafayette Regional School in Franconia, New Hampshire who were inspired by Unity Day! The following blog is authored by Brielle and Julia and the link can be found at the KELLEYKIDS BLOG ------------------------------------------------------- Have you heard of Unity day? You’re probably wondering how we know about Unity Day. We learned about it in a Time for Kids. Well, Time for Kids is a little magazine that we got the idea from. Unity day is a day that Julie Hertzog made up. She wanted any kid that was being bullied to feel good. And that is hard to believe. But it is a good thing, a very good thing. Because when you get bullied you feel sad. Introduction by Lily and Finn. PLANNING! After the third grade at Lafayette Regional School read the article from TFK we decided to spread the word! We wanted the whole school to participate. So we had to plan a lot of stuff. On Friday we planned with Mrs. Koehler and Mrs. Kelley. On Monday we asked permission of Mr. Johnk and he said, “Go for it!” During art class we got Mrs. Overhoff, Mrs. Marks, Mrs. Albrecht and Miss St. Jean to help. All of us worked on a Unity Day Project to make a poster to spread the word!! We even asked Mrs. Butterfield to make an announcement about Unity Day at the end of the day. By: Sam and Liam About the Chains and How We Made Them We also started making a chain out of orange strips of paper with our ideas how you can stop bullying. The basic idea was for the whole school to make a gigantic chain that goes through the building. What the chain was supposed to do is it spreads all of your ideas throughout the world to help stop bullying. Someday we hope that our (and your) ideas will fill up the whole world. We wrote things down like,” If I saw bullying I would tell a teacher,” and “If you are a bystander, get help or be help.” etc. We also made a movie of our posters and us reading our ideas on our strips of paper with a message at the end. Remember, anyone can stop bullying. By: Brody and Yuto Another Thing We Did is We Wore Orange… Orange Kapow!!!! We wore orange on October 9th 2013 to help stop bullying. Unity Day was a day to wear orange. Julie created Pacer’s National Bullying Prevention center. Julie says “All kids have the right to feel safe at school and in their community.” We found all this information in a Time For Kids called "Forbidden Foods". There are 3 different articles. We looked at one called "A Powerful Way to Stop Bullies". Stand up for your friends if you see someone getting bullied. Hope you join in next Unity Day on October 9th. See ya! By Brielle and Julia