Welcome Back to Character Matters!  Our first activity of the year was “Friends Across The Wall”.  We appreciate all of your help; the hands look great around the school. 

The cougar steering committee has decided that we will focus on one character trait each month.  For the month of October we will be focusing on Manners.  Each day try to discuss eye contact, saying hello, please, thank you, etc.  Manners should extend outside the confines of the classroom.  Remind students to greet other students and staff in the halls as well. 

Along with practicing and discussing manners in our classroom, we will be watching for random acts of kindness.   An Act of Random Kindness is when we challenge ourselves to go above and beyond our normal routine and choose actions that consider the feelings of others before our own. Challenge your students to complete acts of random kindness that they will be proud of.  This activity will take place for the entire 2008-2009 school year.  Please see the guidelines below. 

Guidelines

Ø     Each classroom from Kindergarten to Fifth grade will receive an envelope with strips of paper located by the light switch in each room. 

Ø     A student and/or teacher will take a strip of paper and record the act of kindness.  Acts of kindness should be recorded in the middle of the paper because they will be formed into links. 

Ø     Once each strip is completed, they can be dropped off in the box located outside of the cafeteria (next to the lost and found box). 

Students in grades six to eight will receive Caught you Being Good cards.  Classroom teachers and special teachers will be handing the cards out for students who display exceptional kindness.  Each card will be turned into the cafeteria and student/students will receive an ice cream dessert.   At the end of each month, the cards will be collected and one student will be picked out of a hat, be announced on EATV and receive a small prize. 

The caught you being good cards will begin in October and end before winter recess.

Thank you for your help,

Lauren Roznowski