Connections

Lyrical Kindness

By Wendy Libby, posted on Aug 26, 2025

For this lesson, I combined a few poems about kindness and then shuffled some words to come up with a new poem called “A Simple Act of Kindness” to use as lyrics. I discussed with our music teacher which song would fit best with the lyrics, and she chose the tune of “The More We Get Together” by Irving King. All students became excited when I explained the project and told them we were going to cover the hallway bulletin board with giant sheet music, but instead of normal musical notes, we would create notes that looked like fish.

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