Buddy Day #1- Respect

** Pictures of our day at the bottom, please scroll through**

Goals:

• To understand the concept of respect and its importance in relationships and in our school community.

• To practice respectful behaviors in interactions with peers.

Buddy Day Lesson:

Introduction:

• Have a discussion about why respect is important. Discuss scenarios where respect is demonstrated or lacking.

• Ask students to share examples of respectful behaviors they have witnessed or practiced themselves, especially at school.

• Create a chart on the chart paper titled "Respectful Behaviors" and list these examples.

Activities:

Respectful Letters:

• Ask each student to write a letter to their buddy describing why respect is important and how they can show respect to each other. For younger students, pictures are great! 

• Encourage students to include specific examples or scenarios in their letters.

• Ask a few volunteers to share their letters with the class.

• Discuss the different ways they identified to show respect.

• Encourage students to reflect on how they felt while writing the letters and creating the posters.

Art Activity - Respectful Posters:

• Provide students with materials like colored pencils, markers, crayons, etc.

• Instruct them to create posters depicting respectful behaviors or actions.

• Allow them to be creative and use visuals or drawings to illustrate respectful interactions.

• Display these posters around the classroom or school.

Game show for junior students!