Exhibit #V3
Week of Respect Activities
October 3 – 7, 2016
Countryside
Kindergarten
• Watch the short video/song “Respect” from havefunteaching.com. It deals with
respecting yourself, others and your school
• Build on previous lessons regarding being a good citizen
• Role play showing ways we can be respectful at home, school and to our teammates
Grade 1
• Talk about what it means to be a friend and how we can show respect to our friends
• Chart respectful friendship behaviors using
• Read the story Wilfred Gordon MacDonald Partridge and discuss how Wilfred
treated his elders with kindness and respect
• Read Learning About Fairness and discuss how fairness relates to respect
• Talk about good sportsmanship on Field Day and how we show respect for effortwinners or losers
• Reinforce lessons on the Golden Rule and good citizenship
Grade 2
• Read several books on the characteristics of good citizens and use Scholastic News
articles/activities to reinforce these lessons
• Discussions on respect and citizenship with emphasis on keeping a positive attitude
and following the Golden Rule
• Discuss and chart signs of RESPECT: What Does It Look Like and Sound Like?
• Students created a Citizenship Booklet, which demonstrates their personal examples
of signs of Respect, Friendship, Caring, and Responsibility
Grade 3
• Read alouds such as The Sandwich Swap, Spaghetti on a Hot Dog Bun, Junkyard
Wonders, and Surviving Brick Johnson that lend themselves to discussion about
friendship, standing up for each other, and showing respect
• 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
• Discuss how we can put the word respect into action throughout all the lessons
• Parking lot contains ways we can respect ourselves, others, property, and the
environment
• Morning meetings reinforce the importance of mutual respect including having a
positive attitude and showing eye contact during the daily greetings
• How we can be respectful citizens
Schoolwide
• 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
• Teach students they need to respect each other enough to work together to reach
common goals
• Hopes & Dreams, respect for others, and how to be bucket fillers not bucket spillers
Fleetwood
• Student council will create posters for respect which will be hung around the school
and read quotes about respect during morning announcements
• The bulletin board outside the main office will be focused on ways to be respectful
• Teachers will incorporate discussions about respect in morning meetings
• Respect guidance lessons will be taught to each class
• Pride groups will center around promoting respect
Hillside
Kindergarten through Grade 2
• Receive a lesson on kindness and respect by school counselor
• Listen to a story titled Each Kindness
• Students write how they will show kindness and respect in school
Grades 2 through 4
• Receive a lesson by the school counselor on empathy and how to understand the way
others are feeling
• Listen to Stand in My Shoes and review a power point on empathy that will reinforce
the text that was read
Grades 3 and 4
• Receive lessons on the HIB law by the school counselor
• Learn about keeping a respectful mindset while knowing yourself and others
Schoolwide
• Develop classroom and school rules to ratify our School Constitution
• Morning meeting discussions around respect
• Assembly given by the Omega Man on the topic of Respect and Anti-Violence
• Students invited to dress in their favorite superhero shirt to become super charged
with respect and kindness
Larchmont
• Ratified Larchmont’s School Constitution and school rules
• Met with each grade level during common planning time to talk about bullying/HIB
• Link on school website discussing HIB for parents
• (Superhero Spirit Day)
• Teachers were given lists of activities to do in their classes about respect
• Morning meetings focused on respect
• Student-created bulletin boards about respecting differences
• Omega Man Assembly focusing on being a bullying superhero
Parkway
• Met with each grade level during common planning time to discuss the PowerPoint
and HIB
• Discussed what to do when we feel someone is being bullied and the differences
between bullying and conflict
• Showed video clips to the group with examples of what bullying looks like
• Student ambassadors will be ratifying the Parkway Constitution and presenting it to
the younger grades in the upcoming weeks
Springville
Kindergarten
• Read aloud age appropriate books and hold discussions on "kindness" during our
morning meetings
• Talk about using "peaceful hands and peaceful feet" and how and why it's useful in
our classroom
• Help the children understand what being "Kind To One Another" truly means in
everyday situations
Grade 1
• Engage in read-alouds (Bullies Never Win, The Crayon Box that Talked, Chester
Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully, Stop Picking on Me, Me First, Chester’s Way)
• Discuss giving sincere compliments and ways to show respect to classmates, teachers,
and family
• Use topics from Learn 360 to reinforce their discussions and activities
• Morning Meeting discussion topics from the Guidance Counselor
Grade 2
• Play a game of charades where students identify the respectful behavior
• 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 didn't 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 morning meetings
• Incorporate respect in classroom rules
• Discuss logical consequences: “What would have been a better choice? How could
you have been more respectful?
• Incorporated “respect” into our social studies unit on citizenship, respecting yourself,
others, property, and our community and country
Grade 4
• Discuss 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 and Being Helpful by Joy Berry
• Revisit the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today by Carol McCloud
• Discuss good character traits
• Share one respectful thing we did this week or one act of kindness we showed
someone else
• Students share something they saw other students do that was respectful or kind
• Classes worked collaboratively to generate rules
• Talk about and role play what it is meant by “respect”
• Students will write a response to: Name a time you showed respect. Why is it
important to be respectful?
• Students will each create an acrostic poster with the word RESPECT and include the
qualities of respect within their poem.
Hartford
• Morning announcements described the purpose of the week and highlighted ways the
students can show respect for themselves, others, their school and their families
• Respect quote and goal of the day over morning announcements
• Schoolwide signing of our “respect pledge” that will be displayed in each hallway
• Theme days that promoted unity and belonging
• Discuss the Hartford P.R.I.D.E. initiative for teachers to always be on the look-out for
respectful behavior
• “I respect you” activity to be completed in homeroom and displayed in the classroom
• Organize the Respect run to be scheduled for Halloween to promote P.R.I.D.E and
build a sense of belonging to the school community
Harrington
• List of activities that teach students the meaning and value of respect was provided to
our teachers by the counselors
• Announcements about respect daily
• Schoolwide assembly focused on positive character
• Random Notes of Kindness written by students for school staff
• Respect Week banner created by students
• “Mix it Up” lunch day