The Paton-Churdan National Honor Society recently participated in last week’s National Random Acts of Kindness Week.

Advisor Libby Towers says their week was cut short due to there not being school on Monday and Tuesday, because of the below zero degree temperatures. However, the NHS students still made the most of it. She says the students served a pancake breakfast for the student body and staff, followed by doing various kindness activities in the kindergarten through fourth grade classrooms, including an activity that is connected to a book and completing a service project with the fourth graders by making fleece blankets that were given to a youth homeless shelter.

Towers notes that this year, the seventh and eighth grade students made “get well” cards for kids that are admitted to the behavioral health units at Mercy Medical Center and Iowa Lutheran hospitals. It is part of their Please Pass the Love’s Initiative where each child that is admitted receives a card during their stay.

Towers says NHS’s goal is to do at least one service project per month, and the National Random Acts of Kindness Week has been their focus the last couple of years for February.