Karen Moses' fourth-grade class at South Ridge Elementary School in Ridgefield sing for residents of Highgate Senior Living Center.
Residents of the Highgate Senior Living Center in Vancouver received a special visit from students in Karen Moses’ fourth-grade class at South Ridge Elementary School in Ridgefield.
According to Ridgefield School District, the students wrote letters and sent photos to residents of the senior center a few weeks before the visit. During art class, they made decorative yarn Christmas trees and gift-wrapped them. The students also wrote handmade cards.
On the day of the visit, the students were paired with a senior citizen. After a half hour of conversation, the students presented the gifts and performed a song they had learned for a school concert.
“The kids just sat and visited with them for about half an hour,” Moses said in a news release. “It was amazing! The kids did such a nice job conversing with them.”
This is all part of Moses and her students celebrating kindness in the classroom each month with an event called “First Friday Friendship Fiesta.” Although this is typically a classroom event, Moses said her students wanted to take these acts of kindness a step further by impacting people in the community.
“Visiting the senior center was a way to impact our community,” Moses said.
The Highgate residents were delighted by the students’ visit. And members of the First Friday Friendship Fiesta made its circle of friends a little wider.
