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The last day before Winter Break, we watched a movie called: "Pay it Forward". It was all about helping others, and how one person can make a big difference in someone's life. As a project, we were asked to do a good deed for someone and ask nothing in return.

For my act of kindness, I volunteered to help the staff at Harstone Children's Centre. I stayed at the daycare from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, helping out with things such as breakfast and snacks, putting away Christmas decorations, and spending time doing activities with the kids, which included body art, play-doh sculptures, drawing, playing house, and much more. When one of the daycare workers asked me how they could pay me back, I merely told her: "Pay it Forward". At first she didn't quite understand what I meant, so I explained about the project and how this was a way to start a chain reaction of kindness. She seemed to like the idea. In the end, it was very rewarding watching the kids have such a good time, and I had a great time with them.

I think that even just one person can make a difference. Whether they do something life-changing, or just something to make someone smile. It's those kind of things that are going to help shape our world into a better place.

For my act of kindness I shoveled my grandmas sidewalk so she didn't have to do it. Usually I wouldn't do these things for free.It was minus 30 outside and my grandpa didn't want to do it.I told him I would do it and he offered me money.I said no and to PAY IT FORWARD. I also shoveled my drive way. I have no pictures of that. It took me at least an hour to do my whole driveway.its really tiring.I had to shovel an ice rink too.I only took this picture because it was the only time I had use of a camera. It wasn't a easy job as everyone knew that from your experience. It was fun helping people out over the break even though I only helped my family and I hope everyone had fun PAYING IT FORWARD!!!

For my act of kindness, I'm thinking of helping the people in need. Some things that I thought of doing is to shovel snow in people's yards, help the elderly, serve food to the homeless, and donate clothes to the Salvation Army. I would go to my neighbor's yard, go to an old folks home, and the Salvation Army. I would do this during my winter break.


Well what happened when I was doing Pay It Forward, I made pamphlets explaining what's pay it forward, who started it, and why should you pay it forward. It took so much time and effort. It was very, very cold when I went out handing out the pamphlets, but it felt good handing out the pamphlets that I made and thinking that I helped make a difference by spreading the message. I never saw how the person would've reacted. I wish I could have saw the smile on their face thinking that they would actually try to help. I never got the chance to ask if they are involved in pay it forward because I just left the pamphlet in their mailbox.

I think that one person can make a very big difference. If ONE PERSON really took this " Pay It Forward " and put it into action, it will really make an impact on our world.

Hi my name is Brenden and I'm sorry but i don't have any pictures because my family and I didn't have a computer for the ENTIRE Christmas break and on top of that our camera wasn't working.

I did 2 things to help out my family.
1. On Christmas day i helped vacuum and clean up the house for company that was coming over.
2. Without being asked to I shoveled twice. I shoveled the walk, stairs, and driveway on boxing day and January 3.

Also in the past I have volunteered at the Arthritis Society, Hemophilia Society and have twice gone to deliver Christmas hampers with my mom.

Some things i have done to help out at the Arthritis I help out a women named Bonnie Hopps put information packages together about Arthritis and Fitness, and i stamped and labeled brochures.

Some things that i have done at The Hemophilia Society are Handing out water at the Puma Road Races. I also helped get the food ready and hand it out to the runners when they were done running.

For my act of kindness, I'm going to help anonymous people like the elderly, children, and the homeless. Some of my ideas to pay it forward was to help babysit for free, volunteer at a soup kitchen like the Saloam Mission, do chores at home without being told, do community service and donate money, clothes and toys . I'm going to pay it forward during the winter break.





What I ended up doing was I shoveled my neighbor's sidewalk and their driveway. It was really fun shoveling. It was kind of hard because it was snowing out and I had to shovel it over again at least twice but it was worth it. Just by helping one person made me feel special because I know I did something good for them. My neighbor doesn't know that I shoveled her driveway but I think that she would be surprised and really happy. I could not tell my neighbor to "Pay it Forward" in person because she was not at home. So I just made a letter that says "Pay It Forward" and inside there was the meaning of "Pay it Forward". I also said thank you for the help she had done to my family.

I think that one person can make a difference. I think that we can all learn to be a bit more selfless and help other people who needs help. Even if you make a little difference it doesn't matter because it's a huge difference ! EVERY PERSON COUNTS!

For my act of kindness, I'm thinking of helping anonymous people like the elderly, children, and the homeless. Some of my ideas to pay it forward was to help at an old folks home, help at the Children's Hospital, babysit for free, volunteer at a Christmas cheerboard, shovel someone's driveway, do community service, do chores at home without being told, and to donate money, clothes, or toys. I thought about going to the Children's Hospital or Calvary Place. I'm going to pay it forward during the break.


What I ended up doing was I made cards with Abby, Alyanna, Carrie, Arielle, Sutchai, and Tracy. The cards we made were about paying it forward, explaining what pay it forward is, why we are doing it, and how others can help. We all participated and equally shared the work by thinking, writing, drawing, and coloring.

On the front of each card said, "Pay it Forward" and to read before thinking to even throw it out or something similar. If you think about it, do you think you'd read something handmade made by anonymous people in the mail? Would you throw it out without even reading it? I honestly probably wouldn't take the time to read it, but maybe if it said something like, "Please read before throwing out." or "Before you even think of throwing this out, please read it." I'd probably read it. We also drew pictures on the front of the cards like flowers, cartoons, and forward symbols like the ones on a VCR. In the inside of the cards basically covered the who, what, when, where, why, and how. We also drew diagrams of one person paying it forward to three other people, each of the three paying it forward to three other people, and so on. We showed how it can spread quickly to many people and around the world. We also attached a lollipop to each of the cards to show our appreciation to pay it forward. We put the cards into mailboxes of unknown people.

I felt that I have done a good deed by spreading the message to others. I also felt like watching someone open their door and read what we had left in their mailbox and how they would react. I think the people whom I have given it to would have probably had a happy feeling reading the card and had a smile on their face wondering who had made the cards. I'm hoping that the people who received the cards actually read it and don't tend on throwing it out. I hope that they also pay it forward to help us spread the message.

Do I think that one person can make a difference? I know someone can make difference, it may not be a huge difference like to stop global warming but everyone counts. Even if that difference is very little, it will continue to grow no matter how small it may be. It is almost like a tree, it'll start out small and it will take time for it to grow, but in the end it is a large beautiful tree, and all the waiting really paid off. I think if you really believe in yourself that you can make a difference in our world and that you never give up, you will make a difference. No matter who you are. Age? Size? Culture? Ethnicity? That all doesn't matter, what matters is what is in you! Every little difference can make a HUGE DIFFERENCE! EVERY PERSON COUNTS!

For my paying it forward I shoveled someone's drive way for free so that they can drive safely when they want to drive somewhere special. The person's drive way that I shoveled was my drive way because my neighbor's drive way was already shoveled by someone else. I felt very generous after I shoveled my drive way because I used my own shovel that I found in my garage, and the best thing about paying it forward is that they didn't say thank you. When I shoveled my drive way it was a very cold day and my fingers were very frozen. When I went inside, I put my fingers on my vent and when they got warm, I felt this weird tingly feeling through my fingers to my wrists. My dad didn't notice that I shoveled but I said pay it forward to him and he didn't understand.

I think one person can make a difference because if they tell the person to pay it forward and that person does pay it forward, then there will be more people doing goods deeds around the world, just like the movie. I also think one person can make a difference, even without saying pay it forward because they can do a lot of good deeds and people might try to copy that person and maybe they will be on the news and even more people would copy their good deeds.