Learning Character

We have been spending the month of May learning about character and manners. Here is a look at some of the fun things we have been doing:

We have played several great games! This one below is like musical chairs. When the music stops you land on a name and you have to say something nice about that person. We used the names of our classmates, and mom. They had some great things to say about mom. 

This game was a life sized gratitude board game. The students rolled a die, then counted the spaces to go. They had to "do" whatever they landed on. Some of the spaces were: name a vegetable you are grateful for, go back 3 spaces for forgetting to say thank you, move forward 5 spaces for saying a prayer of gratitude, etc. It was so much fun!

During our gratitude week the students also took home strips of paper to fill out with their parents of things they are thankful for. At school they got to read them to the class and we stapled them together to make a great big gratitude chain. It was really long and we had fun finding different places to hang it and admire it's length :) We have so many things to be thankful for! 

We completed some great art projects also. Paper plate watermelons, pasta necklaces for Mother's Day (the kids LOVED doing this), thank you cards, a good manners collage, and paper plate puppets. 

This made me laugh. The first picture is the one I made to show them as an example of what to do. And the last picture is Mason's final project. Ha ha!!