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WATCH: Northwood Elementary Student Surprised with Danny Boys Pizza Party

Fifth-grader Matt Warburton had written a letter to Danny Boys, and, for his kind words, he was rewarded with a pizza party for his entire class Tuesday

Really, as a fifth-grader, what's better than a surprise pizza party for you and your entire class?

Matt Warburton, a fifth-grader at , got just that Tuesday when Fred Schmidt, general manager at Canton's Danny Boys restaurant, showed up in Bob Hutchison's classroom with balloons and several boxes of pizza and breadsticks.

Schmidt — who was once a student in North Canton City Schools himself — was repaying Matt for a kind letter he wrote to Danny Boys as part of a shool project. It was the first letter ever written to the restaurant at 6081 Dressler Road NW, Canton.

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Schmidt also hand-delivered a letter to Matt and gave him a gift certificate to spend his birthday eating at Danny Boys. The entire school also received coupons for free breadsticks because Matt likes them so much.

You can read both of their letters, which are attached in the media section of this update.

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