There’s an elementary school in Washington making headlines in the best way possible . . . for being kind.

Madeline Sells, the Grant Elementary School counselor started the “Kindness Club” program as a way to offer more support for her kindergarten through second grade students.

Members of the Kindness Club can choose from a variety of kind-hearted tasks, like mentoring a younger student, being an art or reading buddy, and even morning greeters.

Club members commit to random acts of kindness around the school, and there are already 30 members ranging from fourth to sixth graders.

Madeline shares, “Students help me get the food out, then they do what’s called our DI art buddies–our developmentally impaired classroom.” She continues, “They go in and do art with [the younger students] on Fridays then they’re doing one on one mentoring. Whether it’s a walk, some kids do ukulele breaks.”

The idea came from sixth grader, Echo Gring. Madeline says, “She was just really wanting to help and going to teachers saying, ‘I want to help’. . . But we didn’t really have anything to kind of channel her in to giving back to the community and our school.”

Echo elaborates, “I like helping kids, I also thought it would be fun to see what the smaller kids are up to. It shows that we’re a big community and we like to help each other out.”

Every Friday, the Kindness Club meets to sign up for jobs and plan out their acts of kindness.

The club also helps build students’ self-esteem, helping them feel needed. Each and every member is an important part of Grant Elementary School.

Sells said the club has also helped build the students’ self-esteem. They’ve said they feel needed and are an important part of Grant Elementary school.

(MSN)