The First Lady and Secretary of Education spent Tuesday winding down in the White House theater for a movie with sixth graders and their teachers.

The movie screening was part of Melania Trump's 'Be Best' initiative and held for Bullying Prevention Month.

Melania invited students and teachers from Washington DC's Digital Pioneers Academy to join her and Betsy DeVos for a screening of the film Wonder.

Photos from the event show the two women sitting front and center in the theater, while rows of eager students watch the screen.

Melania Trump hosted sixth graders at the White House family theater Tuesday

They screened the anti-bullying movie 'Wonder' as part of her 'Be Best' initiative

Melania Trump (right), with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (left), welcomed a group of 6th graders to the White House theater for a screening of 'Wonder'

The 2017 film Wonder, starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson, is a movie about a young boy with a facial deformity who is bullied at school.

The film was chosen because of its message of kindness and anti-bullying

Melania tweeted her thanks after the screening.

'Thank you to the students & teachers from @DPApcs who joined me $ @BetsyDeVosED to watch the movie #Wonder in the @WhiteHouse theater today,' she wrote.

'What a wonderful message! #BeBest #BullyingPreventionMonth #ChooseKind.'

The film was chosen because of its message of kindness and screened as part of her anti-bullying campaign - even as her office pushed back against one of the first lady's own critics on Twitter.

Earlier in the day, Andy Lassner, the executive producer for Ellen DeGeneres' television show, tweeted that he was more afraid of 'another Melania' entering the United States than any of the thousands of Central Americans walking in a caravan toward the U.S. border.

The First Lady tweeted her thanks after the event

She invited students and teachers from Washington DC's Digital Pioneers Academy to join her and Betsy DeVos for a screening of the film

First lady Melania Trump, followed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos enter the White House Family Theater

The first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, replied online, saying Mrs. Trump was hosting children at the White House to talk about kindness. 'Should I save you a seat?' Grisham asked Lassner in a tweet.

Kindness indeed was the message the first lady imparted to the students who joined her for a screening of the movie.

Kindness is a core belief of her Be Best campaign, which focuses on social media and online behavior.

'As you know October is National Bullying Prevention Month,' she told the students from the Digital Pioneers Academy, a new computer science charter school in southeast Washington, D.C.

'I encourage everybody to be kind to each other - treat each other with respect in everyday life and on social media,' she said.

The Ellen Show producer tweeted earlier in the day about the first lady and the caravan of migrants

The first lady's communication's director Stephanie Grisham tweeted an invite to Andy Lassner, a producer with the 'Ellen Show,' to attend the screening