Character Is Our Anti-Drug
October 22-25
Monday, October 22: Kick-off Assembly Character is Our
Anti-Drug. Socks off to Drugs.
Students will wear silly socks to school.
Tuesday, October 23: Friends Don’t Let Friends Do Drugs. Students will participate in Mix It Up
Day at lunch.
Wednesday, October 24: Hugs not Drugs. Students will bring in their favorite
stuffed animal or picture of someone they love.
Thursday, October 25: Character Is Our Super Power. Students will wear red, and carry their Super Power masks, and participate in a school wide march, “Footsteps Worth Following” to show
their power over drugs!
Character Trait Poster Contest: Each classroom will
participate in a poster contest in which they will decorate and design a poster
for their assigned character trait.
These will be used in the march on Friday!
Our assembly went so well! The Peacemaker students spoke at the assembly and held up posters to promote the activities for each day. They worked very hard to practice their speech.
Each class was assigned a character trait. At the assembly, a student, or group had to state what the character trait meant in their own words. There were some creative demonstrations.
We finished with the song "Who I am" by Will.i.am for all the grades. I was a little nervous about playing it for the 5th and 6th, but they were so into it. I think it helped that I played a version that didn't show Sesame street. I was so happy to see all of the students dancing and singing at the end of the assembly.
After the song, each student signed a pledge created by the art teacher, titled "Footsteps Worth Following"
Each class participated in a poster contest, being assigned a different character trait to display.
Every student made a super hero mask with their choice of a character trait in art class. They looked awesome as the students wore them during our march.
On Thursday, we had a school wide march around the school, called Footsteps Worth Following. Huge success! The peacemakers shouted chants such as "boo to drugs" and "it's up to me to be drug free"
To ensure that parents were aware, I sent home a letter, and an activity for them to write a character trait that describes their child, another idea from Barbara at corner on character . If you are interested in viewing this, please contact me. I have posted pictures of the home activity at the bottom of the post.
Dear Parent/Guardian,
We’re celebrating National Character Counts Week and Red
Ribbon Week from October 22-25, with the theme: Character Is My Anti-Drug. What we’d like from you is a drawing or
paragraph in the template below showing us your child’s super power. To assist in this activity, ask
yourself some of the following questions: What character trait do you consider
your child’s super power? What is he or she passionate about? What is he or she
really good at? We would like to
see these back on October 22. Here
is a list of character traits that you may find useful:
Respect
Responsibility
Integrity
Courage
Kindness
Self Discipline
Good Judgement
Below is the list of National Character Counts and Red
Ribbon Week Events:
Monday, October 22:
Character is our Anti-Drug Assembly and Crazy Sock Day. Students can wear their
favorite pair of socks!
Tuesday, October 23:
Friends Don’t Let Friends Do Drugs.
Mix It Up Day at lunch.
Wednesday, October 24:
Hugs not Drugs. Students will
bring in their favorite stuffed animal or picture of someone they love.
Thursday, October 25:
Character Is Our Super Power.
Students will wear red, and their Super Power mask to participate in a
school wide march, “Footsteps Worth Following.”
In order to make sure that things went smoothly, I made sure to have EVERYTHING planned out. I emailed the staff each day to remind of the next days activity. For the march, each staff member was assigned a post to ensure the safety of students. Here are some pictures below. I will be posting about Mix It Up Day, as it was the most successful after two years of trial and error!