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character education quilts
By jl, fourth grade

I did a classroom quilt using ideas from Character Education and incorporated them into my discipline plan for the year. This was a great way to start the first week of school. After developing and discussing our discipline
plan, each student received two quilt pieces. On each piece they needed to write 3-5 sentences and illustrate how they could show respect on one and responsibility on the other. The ideas ranged from respect to one another and other adults to responsibility for taking care of their work, homework, and things in school. When finished we mounted each square onto a colored and slightly larger

square of construction paper. Students then lace yarn through prepunched holes on the construction paper squares. From there, we joined our quilt together on a bulletin board with the title "Character Counts!" This was a spur of the moment idea that "popped into my head" the day before school started. I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but it was really a lovely bulletin board display that I kept up until conference time in November! (a great way to refer students back to their Sept. commitments)