Week of Respect Activities October 6 through 10, 2014 Exhibit #V3
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
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.
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.
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).
• 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.