Beasley students bounced into the music studio for their weekly assembly as Lower School Music Teacher Dr. Katy Nichols tickled the ivories with a rendition of Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For?, a song from the Barbie soundtrack. This week’s assembly theme was Cooperation, one of a few words students are exploring related to kindness and community. Head of Lower School Amy Scheer opened the assembly by asking students to share what they had learned in classroom time about the word cooperation. Students offered words and phrases such as working together, playing together, sharing, listening, and helping others before launching into a sing-a-long of K-I-N-D by Stephanie Leavell.
It seemed familiar to the students as they sang it enthusiastically. It is assuredly a staple in the efforts to build and maintain a community of kindness in the Lower School.
K-Okay, I’ll be your friend
I-I know you’ll be mine too
N-New things are hard sometimes
D-Don’t you worry I’ll be by your side
Kind is kind of the most important thing that we can all be
Kind is kind of a very special thing for you and for me
Just be kind.
Just be kind, kind, kind, kind, kind.
K-Kind words can go a long way
I-I hear the kind things you say
N-Nice is just the right thing to do
D-Don’t you worry, I’ll be kind to you
Kind is kind of the most important thing that we can all be
Kind is kind of a very special thing for you and for me
Just be kind.
Just be kind, kind, kind, kind, kind.
To expand on the theme of cooperation, students in our fourth-grade leadership group performed two skits demonstrating how to work together on math problems or when stacking blocks and how everyone benefits when pitching in and working towards the same goal.
The assembly closed with an episode of the Beasley Broadcast where a roaming reporter (Lower School Librarian Thomas Buffington) asked students about the meaning of cooperation and included a surprise song by Primrose D. ’36 and Molly B. ’36.
Thank you, Lower School students, for going all in on fostering a community of kindness and cooperation!