Character Counts/Respect Activity

My class has been focusing on the six character counts pillars. These include fairness, respect, responsibility, citizenship, trustworthiness, and caring. Students took time last week to work with their groups on how we share these pillars and wrote a definition for each. This week we took it a step further. As a class, we discussed what we wanted to show for each pillar in our classroom. These points were put on a character count poster that a fellow colleague gave me.

These posters served as the backboard for the rest of our project. Students were to pick a pillar and create a poster with that word. The poster would include an illustration as well as a paragraph sharing ways that they show that pillar in school. If the student chose respect as their pillar one side would say, "Respect looks like." The other side would say, "I show respect when..." Even for my struggling writers, this activity was fun. They got to think outside the box and enjoyed having both illustration and writing. I had students show what the pillar looked like using animals or pictures from their own lives. I did a gallery walk to have students show off their work. They enjoyed walking around compared to presenting their work in front of the class.

Here was some of the finished products!

Sorry for the bad light! This was taken in the school hallway which had no electricity at the time!

 
What do you do to share your classroom work?