Character Education

This year we are trying to focus more one character education each month as we talk about the word of the month. For September our kiddos are working on Respect. For my younger kiddos I read aloud:

As we went through we talked about character traits and giving evidence for how we knew they were respectful or disrespectful. Unfortunately, neither of these books were housed in our library, but both are read aloud on YouTube videos. They are now on my next order so I'll have them on hand. 

We also watched the "For the Birds" short by Pixar. As we watched we gave thumbs up when we saw respectful behavior and thumbs down when we saw disrespectful behavior. At the end we talked about what the birds should have done instead. 

Fourth grade is doing something a little different. Since we have a new green screen, they are creating videos that show respect and disrespect. Those vodeos will be published on the school website. We practiced this week, film next week, and having a viewing of all the videos the final week.