Anti-Bullying Week

This week was Anti-Bullying week. As a class we read stories, watched videos and participated in a kindness activity to put our actions and our words into perspective. The paper doll kindness activity helped students to understand the impact that their words and their actions can have on their peers. 

To begin, each student worked hard to colour a picture of themselves. They were told to make it their best work and to make sure that it looked just like them. Then, we sat in a circle and had a discussion. Students were told to tear, rip, scrunch and mark up the doll of a classmate with crayon. Each rip, scrunch, tear or mark represented a hurtful word, a tease, or an unkind action. Students learned that every time they make fun of someone, tease, kick, or exclude a peer they are leaving a mark that cannot be erased or fixed so easily. After the activity we had a long discussion about how the tearing and ripping made us feel. Students used adjectives like disappointed, surprised, tongue tied and heartbroken. When we talked about how it feels when a peer kicks them, teases, laughs or excludes them, the adjectives they used to describe were very similar: sad, sorry, hurt, angry and upset. We made a word collage to represent how we felt during both activities. The paper doll kindness activity and the word collage are now posted outside of our classroom. The students are eager to share with the school what the activity taught them and how they can stop other from bullying or being unkind to their friends. 

This activity was a springboard to our poster project. Together with a partner, students used what they learned this week to make a digital posters to promote kindness. They had to share how bullying makes someone feel and how we can be better friends. They did a great job of capturing their learning and sharing their ideas on Slides. Students have asked to print their posters and they will be posting their work around the school next week. We hope that students in our school can learn from our digital posters. We hope students will stop and make better choices instead of being hurtful friends. 

Shared-Twitter Thinking and Learning

Together with Mrs. Swan's grade 3 class we created a Twitter wall in our school. We are using the wall to share our thinking and learning using the similar learning opportunities our classes participate in.  


Last week our 2 classes participated in similar problem solving and kindness activities. We were happy to hear that the grade 3's also participated in the kindness paper person activity. Our Twitter wall is a way for our 2 classes to share our thinking and learning about how we can choose to make a positive choice in a problem situation. 

The wall is located close to the lunch room. We hope to inspire other students to make positive choices when faced with any sort of problem or issue (whether big or small)! 

Our classes have already used the online version of Twitter for shared learning opportunities. We will continue to watch one another's learning on Twitter as well as use the Twitter Wall in our school to share our learning in many ways over the year. If you are in the school, come by and visit our Twitter Wall!

Sharing our Learning

We have been working on our bullying awareness posters all week long. We are sharing in different ways all that we've learned about making good choices when we face a problem. We used the paper-person kindness activity, songs from Maria Hawkins and the stories we read to recall how we can solve our problems. We used describing words and thought about how we can make the better choice in a problem situation.

Today we used the Tellagami app to share what we wrote about on our posters. Have a listen to some of the problems we've faced, and the positive choice we made to solve it:

MD: https://tellagami.com/gami/6VMOPH/

NN: https://tellagami.com/gami/7FRPJL/ 

CW: https://tellagami.com/gami/G5CA9G/ 

AB: https://tellagami.com/gami/93OD4B/ \

DL: tellagami.com/gami/8UT6GJ/ 

CO: https://tellagami.com/gami/K52HG9/ 

HH: https://tellagami.com/gami/SU38MJ/ 

EC: https://tellagami.com/gami/ZQ3LWZ/ 

WN:  https://tellagami.com/gami/X9QQMU/ 

RC: https://tellagami.com/gami/YX0JEY/ 

PJ: tellagami.com/gami/OIY2SF/ 

FF: https://tellagami.com/gami/7PXTL3/ 

AO: tellagami.com/gami/XVZB4D/ 

Paper Doll Kindness

We continue to focus on bullying awareness this week. This morning we read a story about Howard B Wigglebottom and how he learns about bullies. He taught us to Be Brave, Be Bold...a Teacher Must be Told!

We also completed a kindness activity using a paper person. We worked really hard to make a beautiful paper person of ourselves. Next we ripped and marked up our person (to the surprise of the students). We did this to show the affect our words and actions can have on us. We say hurtful things or do mean things to someone and we don't realize how it makes them feel.
We tried to use tape and erasers to fix our paper person but it didn't work. We made a wordle to describe how we felt about ripping up our beautiful paper people. We connected how these words also make us feel when someone is unkind to us. Ask your child more about these describing words. We will talk about this again tomorrow!

Maria Hawkins

What a fun morning we got to enjoy - again! Maria Hawkins joined us for the 2nd day in a row. She shared some inspiring songs that focus on Bullying Awareness. We got the opportunity to work in groups where we had to work together to perform a song! We also shared what makes friends in our class special people. Maria Hawkins is a lovely performer. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with us!!
       

Our tweets focused on some key concepts we learned from Maria Hawkins together. Have a read at what we loved about singing and dancing with her the past few days! 

Anti-Bullying Week Kick-Off

Today we enjoyed an inspiring morning with a musical performance by Maria Hawkins. She made us laugh, dance and sing! But most of all she made us think about how we can be the positive change in the face of bullying.

Here is a video link of one of her memorable performances. She encouraged us to distinguish between small and big issues. She also showed us how teachers want students to succeed. Be happy not sad. Be caring and kind. And if you say sorry mean it.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuPKZr7dbM

All week long we will be addressing various topics about bullying to raise awarenss as well as to give our class problem solving tools to help them! We are using Twitter to connect with other classrooms to share how we can be the positive change. Follow our tweets @MrsCiampaClass and watch as we use the #nomorebulliesocsb hashtag!
Today we read the story The Recess Queen about a school yard bully. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJiWhQDz4_c  We used the story and the musical performance by Maria Hawkins to tweet to our friends in Mr. Robinson's class. We talked about what words that come to mind when we hear the word bully. 










Today the Ottawa Catholic School Board appeared on CTV to show how we as a school board are using social media in positive ways to promote bullying awareness across all of our schools. Here is the link: http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/videoclipId=1045521&binId=1.1487308&playlistPageNum=2