Remember when you could see someone smile in school? Since COVID 19 we have been working hard to smile with our eyes!
But regular smiles still exist! On Friday we celebrated World Smile Day 2021!
Did you know that smiling is more contagious than COVID 19 and that smiling makes us more attractive! It's also easier to smile than frown!
Our mission on Friday was to: "Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile"!
Ms. Smith had a team of volunteers to help out bringing smiles around the school, decorating the lobby area with ballons and cheer and in wellbeing classes students wrote to family and friends and captured the spirit of a smile in their kind messages.
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As is well known by now throughout the world Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts created the smiley face in 1963. That image went on to become the most recognizable symbol of good will and good cheer on the planet.
As the years passed Harvey Ball became concerned about the over-commercialization of his symbol, and how its original meaning and intent had become lost in the constant repetition of the marketplace. Out of that concern came his idea for World Smile Day®. He thought that we, all of us, should devote one day each year to smiles and kind acts throughout the world. The smiley face knows no politics, no geography and no religion. Harvey’s idea was that for at least one day each year, neither should we. He declared that the first Friday in October each year would henceforth be World Smile Day®. Ever since that first World Smile Day® held in 1999, it has continued every year in Smiley's hometown of Worcester, MA and around the world.
After Harvey died in 2001, the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation was created to honor his name and memory. The Foundation continues as the official sponsor of World Smile Day® each year.