Positive Plates

 Who doesn’t like to hear a compliment or kind word?   Our class loves to give and

get compliments.  We  brainstormed a list of compliments and character traits that

would be nice to hear– then armed ourselves with tape, paper plates and markers.

We taped the plate to our backs, got the hair out of the way, uncapped our markers

and began.

Students were instructed to walk around the room and write positive things about

their classmates on the plates. The tricky part was to write something that had not

already been written.

 Students were excited to write the kind words and were really anticipating what

their friends were writing about them.  They could feel their friends writing on

the plate but they couldn’t see the words!

In the end, students got to take off their plates and read all of the nice things their

peers wrote about them.  I could tell this was a meaningful activity as many

students taped their plate to the back of the chairs for the rest of the day.