Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 5/26/2007 10:21:00 AM Author: christine (christinedbailey@gmail.com) Subject: self - esteem issues I have the children sit in a circle tell a child something nice about them to get it started. Then explain to the children that it will be their turn to say something nice about a friend in the class. I have even played this activity with a ball. When you roll the ball to a child it is their turn to say something nice about a friend in the class. It makes it more fun for the children using a ball, or anything else that they can pass around. When they have the object it is their turn to talk, that also makes them feel special because they have the oppurtunity to speak, and when they can tell what they are thinking they feel special. I have also done the kindness jar, this is something that you need to keep up with, because the children will ask you to read what the children have written or they can draw a picture. I have explained to the children that when you see or hear someone doing or saying something nice to another friend to write it down or they can draw a picture of what they saw. Most children are not writing yet so tell them to ssk you or another adult. I would read what we have collected at the end of the week. This encourages friends to be nice to eachother and they also like to hear friends saying nice things about them. Name: Email: Subject

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