For the second consecutive year, the United Way of Freeborn County, the Albert Lea Rotary Club and Alden-Conger first-grade teacher Julie Drommerhausen teamed up to bring the United Way’s message of caring for others to Freeborn County elementary students.

Working with The United Way, Drommerhausen designed a lesson titled “It’s About Kindness” based on the children’s book, “The Kindness Quilt” by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. In the book, elementary students share their good deeds for others by making quilt squares illustrating their caring acts. Their teacher constructs a quilt out of the squares and displays it in their classroom. Drommerhausen’s lesson outlines how the book can be used to teach a similar lesson.

The Albert Lea Rotary Club purchased one copy of the book for each elementary building in Freeborn County to accompany the lesson plan.

At a recent Rotary meeting, representatives from the Alden-Conger, Albert Lea, Hollandale, Glenville, and St. Theodore elementary schools received the lesson plan and the books.