In our class we were working on being kinder to each other (Shortreed's slogan is "be kinder than necessary"). I was on facebook one day when a video popped up of high school students writing nice messages for their classmate while he or she was looking away. They then turned around and BAM giant smile from seeing all the kind words.
I thought I would try this out in my grade 4 class. I can confirm that the smiles are indeed quite wide at this age as well.
We called it a Friendship Wall and every student got a turn. I usually picked one person at the end of the day. It lead to good discussions about what a compliment actually looks like/sounds like. It also taught an important lesson that you do not need to be friends with somebody in order to be kind to them.
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