#PositivePostIt
Day
After attending the #WGEDD Conference on April 8-9, 2016, I returned back to school with so many exciting ideas and inspired to continue making this school year as great as possible for my students! One of the presenters was Todd Nesloney @TechNinjaTodd, and he encouraged all educators to participate in #PositivePostIt Day on Tuesday, April 12.
We did a condensed version in our classroom, yet it was amazing for our third graders to write a post-it to celebrate the “awesome” in a classmate and themselves. They quickly finished their post-it about a classmate- from “You are my best friend because you are kind” to “You are great at soccer,” but I think the most powerful part of this experience was the time they took to reflect about themselves. One of the students wrote “I love my handsomeness,” and it was wonderful to see this student who had struggled with self-confidence in the past years write that about himself! Another student, a very quiet girl, wrote that she was awesome at dancing! Imagine our surprise and the encouragement from everyone to soon show us what she knew how to do. Another student wrote about loving her glasses, and this was so important in a classroom where we had a couple of students not wear their glasses because of the insecurity of what others would say about them. “I’m awesome at drawing!” was what another student wrote, and yes he is! Every single post-it they wrote about themselves went on our “Dot Door” where we taped their dots after reading The Dot by Peter Reynolds earlier in the school year.
After attending the #WGEDD Conference on April 8-9, 2016, I returned back to school with so many exciting ideas and inspired to continue making this school year as great as possible for my students! One of the presenters was Todd Nesloney @TechNinjaTodd, and he encouraged all educators to participate in #PositivePostIt Day on Tuesday, April 12.
We did a condensed version in our classroom, yet it was amazing for our third graders to write a post-it to celebrate the “awesome” in a classmate and themselves. They quickly finished their post-it about a classmate- from “You are my best friend because you are kind” to “You are great at soccer,” but I think the most powerful part of this experience was the time they took to reflect about themselves. One of the students wrote “I love my handsomeness,” and it was wonderful to see this student who had struggled with self-confidence in the past years write that about himself! Another student, a very quiet girl, wrote that she was awesome at dancing! Imagine our surprise and the encouragement from everyone to soon show us what she knew how to do. Another student wrote about loving her glasses, and this was so important in a classroom where we had a couple of students not wear their glasses because of the insecurity of what others would say about them. “I’m awesome at drawing!” was what another student wrote, and yes he is! Every single post-it they wrote about themselves went on our “Dot Door” where we taped their dots after reading The Dot by Peter Reynolds earlier in the school year.
Every day we work on building a classroom where students believe in themselves, and this exercise demonstrated how far we have come this year. I loved #PositivePostIt Day, and it is definitely something that I will continue to celebrate with my students in the future!
Ms. Erika Silva
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