Peacebuilder

10/13/11

Today could not have been a more fitting day to do this "paper bag" activity. It is gloomy outside and we were stuck inside all day. Students needed a way to move around the room without being disruptive to other classes there arose an opportunity to praise others and have fun at the same time. Each child was given a paper bag. They each wrote their name **IN SHARPIE** (so exciting to use Sharpies) on their paper bag. Then I placed little white strips of paper on each child's desk. I told the students that we will be filling each of the 27 paper bags full of praise and good things about that person. The students were not allowed to write mean things. So the paper bag filling began...

After we finished filling the paper bags...then it was time to see all of the wonderful things our peers had written about us!