Last year when we started preparing the
planning of the first weeks Patsy and I went to the library to look for
Teaching Kids to Care & Cooperate by Scholastic to look for some activities
related to values and Patsy found a beautiful idea: having a book called
"Appreciation Copybook" to assess good attitudes and values. She immediately
prepared a copybook to circulate among the homes. The results were very
fruitful: both parents and kids loved reading all the positive feedback. I
always forgot to do it and then I thought I should have done it since the
beginning and the year went by without the "Appreciation Copybook".
Now when I see the positive impact it’s having this year with my new group I
regret not having done it last year because I could have changed many attitudes
and behavior of some particular cases.
With Patsy we believe that this activity it’s even more
effective for children that are not so good in the academic aspect since you’re
highlighting issues not related to the subject and it will help him/her to feel
more confident and improve.
