Let Us All Be Kind

My first graders are learning the songs and lines to a children's play, "Elfis the Elf Impersonator".  It is about not judging others and always being kind.  There is one song that makes me tear up every time I hear the students sing it.  I think the words are simple but profound.  And little first graders singing it is beautiful.

"Look past faces and look past clothes

Look past troubles you might suppose

Let us all be kind

Let us cause no pain or harm

Let us all walk on arm in arm.

Don't be fooled by the face you see

Don't be judging so easily-

Let us all be kind let us cause no pain or harm

Let us all walk on arm in arm.

Use the rule that's golden still 

Give respect and share good will.

Work together, don't work apart

Work to see what is in each heart.

Let us all be kind

Let us cause no pain or harm

Let us all walk on arm in arm."