Happy Labor Day! We wanted to take a quick minute to share two of our newest activities we implemented into our classrooms last week. Since attending the Get Your Teach On Conference and after reading The Leader In Me, we have been trying to make a more deliberate effort to establish stronger student relationships, while at the same time continuing to find new ways to engage the kids.
Our first activity focused on The Leader in Me's Habit #4--Win Win. This habit focuses on being kind to others and finding ways to make everyone happy in different situations. We played The Ring Toss game to help the kids understand this habit. Unfortunately, we forgot to take pictures of this so we will just explain it here. This game is similar to horseshoes. One student holds a pencil still on the ground. Another student stands seven steps away and tries to toss a ring onto the pencil. As they quickly discovered this is very difficult. On the next round, the person with the pencil can help the ring tosser by moving the pencil off the ground to catch the ring, or move the ring closer to the tosser. They can do anything to help the tosser be successful. We could tell the kids were having much more fun on this round from their screams and laughter. The kids realized it is more fun to help each other so everyone is successful; hence win win!
The next activity to help our students understand Habit #4 was to making compliment bags. We used these adorable patterns from Amy Lemon's Back To School Engagement Made Easy bundle. Throughout the week the kids wrote compliments to each other and slipped them into their bags. On Friday they got to read all of their compliments and take their bags home. They felt so good about the kind things their classmates said about them. The kids also loved looking for compliments to give each other throughout the day. One of the students said he did not want to take his bag home because he thought he could reread his compliments if he was ever having a bad day. What a way to make this an even more meaningful activity.
Hope you all had a Happy Labor Day! Have a wonderful week and good luck to all of you just starting school this week.
Kim and Anne
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