Week of Respect Activities October 6 through 10, 2014

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1 Exhibit #V3 Week of Respect Activities October 6 through 10, 2014 Countryside Kindergarten: Read the book Bullies Never Win and discuss which actions do not show respect and how they make us feel. We will brainstorm better ways to deal with the situations in the book, so that actions would be more respectful to others and their feelings. We will continue to build on our previous lesson on the power of words and show that when we are not respectful how it puts WRINKLES on people s hearts. We will role play showing ways we can be respectful at home, school and to our teammates. Grade 1: We will use words of wisdom from John Wesley. Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can as Morning Message. We will discuss this and chart children s responses to the question How does doing good relate to being respectful? We will read the story Wilfred Gordon MacDonald Partridge and discuss how Wilfred treated his elders with kindness and respect. We will watch Learning About Fairness and discuss how fairness relates to respect. Children will work in pairs to create respectful/disrespectful posters. They will draw and write a sentence for each. We will share as a class and display our posters. Grade 2: The second grade classes will be reading several books on the characteristics of good citizens and use Scholastic News articles/activities to reinforce these lessons. In our Morning Meetings, we will continue the discussions on respect and citizenship with emphasis on keeping a positive attitude and following the Golden Rule. Classes will be writing partner RESPECT poems. The partners will share the RESPECT poems and we will display them. Discuss and chart signs of RESPECT: What Does It Look Like and Sound Like. The students created a Citizenship Booklet, which demonstrates their personal examples of signs of respect, friendship, caring, and responsibility. Grade 3: Incorporate Respect lessons into our morning meetings with read alouds that lend themselves to discussion about friendship, standing up for each other, and showing respect. We have a Friday morning tradition of writing and sharing thank-you notes at our morning meetings. This Friday our thank you notes will focus on gratitude for being included and respected by our peers. Students will write a thank you note to another

2 student in their class who has shown them respect or made them feel included during this school year. Grade 4: Continue to discuss how we can put the word respect into action throughout all the lessons. Our parking lot contains ways we can respect ourselves, others, property, and the environment. Morning meetings will reinforce the importance of mutual respect including having a positive attitude and showing eye contact during the daily greetings. Schoolwide: We ratified our Constitution and agreed on the understanding of the word Respect. Delegates shared examples of what respect looks like, sounds like and feels like. Introduced the concept that With Empathy Everything is Possible. Meetings at the well include Hopes and Dreams, RESPECT for others, and showing Empathy. This year the central theme is Empathy, which underlies both Respect and Nonviolence. The respect lessons will introduce and help define empathy for the children. Fleetwood Classroom guidance lessons targeting respect, empathy and violence awareness. Announcements throughout the week promoting messages of respect. Morning meeting messages about respect. Pride Group Meeting focused on building a strong community while having discussions and completing an activity based on respect and other character education traits. Hillside All grade levels: Morning meeting discussions and activities will be centered on caring. Caring words, actions, thoughts will be discussed and modeled. As part of our School Constitution ratification process, we will discuss what it looks like and sounds like to respect yourself, others and your environment. Grades K and 1: Counselor will conduct guidance lesson on kindness and respect. Read story Each Kindness and have students write how they will show kindness and respect in the school environment. Grade 2: Read story Stand in my Shoes. Discuss empathy and how to understand the way others are feeling. Show PowerPoint on empathy.

3 Grades 3 and 4: Counselor will be going into individual classrooms to discuss HIB law and our new district theme Be an Upstander. Students will make Respect posters to hang in hallway. Larchmont Classroom lessons scheduled throughout the months of September and November promoting messages of respect, acceptance and empathy. School announcements throughout the week promoting respect. Creation of school rules that focus on messages of respect. Family Day procedures that strengthen and unify our school community. Morning meetings will focus on promoting messages of respect and empathy. Larchmont Report will send a message promoting respect and unity within the school. Parkway Article posted on modeling respect and steps to take for a violence-free school. Books pulled in library on kindness, respect, etc. Lessons on Respect and Kindness in classrooms. Send teachers basic anger strategies and conflict resolution strategies to review during morning meeting times. School-wide activity: Each classroom gets a puzzle piece. Classes each come up with their own definition of what respect is. Each class writes on the puzzle piece and decorates it. In the end, the pieces will be put together to form a big Respect puzzle. Springville Kindergarten: Read age appropriate books and hold discussions on "kindness" during our morning meetings. Listed below are the books we plan to share and read aloud to our students to help them grasp the true meaning of respect during our Pre-school and Kindergarten sessions. Talk about using "peaceful hands and peaceful feet" and how and why it's useful in our classroom. We will help the children understand what being "Kind To One Another" truly means in everyday situations. Grade 1: Engage in read-alouds and discuss giving sincere compliments and ways to show respect to classmates, teachers and family. They also will use topics from Learn 360 such as Let s Talk About Respect, Puppet Pride Respect and You, Respect (League of Super Citizens) and Word Power Respect (Slim Good Body) to reinforce their discussions and activities, as well as Morning Meeting Discussion topics from the Guidance Counselor.

4 Grade 2: Students will play a game of charades where students identify the respectful behavior. They will review and make a chart of what it looks like and sounds like to be respectful. Read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and discuss what to do if someone is not acting respectfully, then chart what Lilly did to fix her teacher's feelings when she did not act respectful... going beyond just saying sorry (apology of action). Classes will generate a chart of apology of actions that can be used by students in class. Grade 3: Discuss respect in our morning meetings. Go over the meaning and incorporate respect in our classroom rules. When discussing logical consequences, we will ask, What would have been a better choice? How could you have been more respectful? We will incorporate respect into our social studies unit on citizenship, respecting yourself, others, property, and our community and country. Grade 4: Classes will be discussing the word respect and what it means to us as a class and school community. Read the books The Recess Queen by Alexis O Neill, Being Helpful by Joy Berry, and Have You Filled a Bucket Today by Carol McCloud. Discuss good character traits and why being respectful and obeying laws in our community are important. Students will relate this to following rules in school and being respectful in school. At the end of the week we will all share one respectful thing we did this week or one act of kindness we showed someone else. Students will share their ideas with the class and also share something they saw other students do that was respectful or kind. Through responsive classroom and the first six weeks, classes have worked through a collaborative process to generate our rules and talk about and role-play what is meant by respect. Students will write a different response each day to: Name a time you showed respect and why is it important to be respectful? At the end of the week, students will each create an acrostic poster with the word RESPECT and include the qualities of respect within their poem. Hartford Morning announcements discussing the purpose of the week and will encourage the students to demonstrate one act daily to show how they respect themselves, others and their community. Provide homeroom slips that read "I respect you because.." and encourage students to give it to someone they value. Provide each homeroom with a Respect Pledge to be recited daily. Theme Day Wednesday (wear blue - universal color for respect) and Friday (Wear a uniform - everyone counts).

5 Review HIB policy in gym classes and emphasize - Empathy, Tolerance, Unity. Ask gym teachers to play "Respect" as first song during classes. Health Classes will be making positive, motivational, I Respect You signs to be displayed during our Respect Run 5k run/walk. Respect Run on Halloween Day "Trick or Feet" promoting unity and good citizenship through fundraising for pediatric cancer. Harrington Straight Talk Assembly, October 6th - discussing bullying vs. conflict Teachers are given ideas to incorporate into their class lessons for the week, using announcements, inspiring quotes and developmental guidance lessons on tolerance. Student-made posters will be displayed around the building with messages of how we respect ourselves and others.