Fourth-graders at Marquette Elementary ended the school year Thursday with a call to kindness enabled through a rock-painting project suggested by a student’s mom.
As part of a school celebration day spent mostly doing crafts, sports and games over a beautiful morning in Orton Park, parent Michelle Weber’s offering let students be “creative, helpful and kind” by decorating small, colored rocks with words, designs and images of happiness and good cheer, Weber said. The students planned to later hide the finished rocks in plain sight around town to hopefully improve the mood of anyone who found them.