The month of February’s affection and energy fills the air with a loving time of appreciation, even with Valentine’s Day being on February 14th. Here at ACE, we have many ways of showing our gratitude to one another. ACE enjoys coming up with activities everyone can participate in so we can show our appreciation to anyone.

For February, Valentine’s Day, ACE had teachers and their guidance groups write notes of appreciation to anyone in the building who has shown them kindness and they were all collected in the buckets, which could also be found anywhere around the school. This activity was brought to life by Laura, Daniela, and even the people who helped make and put up decorations.

Though ACE is a small school, over one hundred people participated and made someone else’s day better because whoever you wrote about, received the letter of appreciation.

Laura says, “It puts me in a better mood seeing all the kindness recognized by students.” Interviewing Daniela, we gathered her opinion on how we can make Buckets of Kindness better in the future. Daniela said,” We should use guidance teachers to help more students feel appreciated and get included, this should not be just for February.” Including the teachers in these activities, we’re able to show them a bit of gratitude for the things they do for us.