How it works
The first of five prompts
“Today I will do something for somebody else.”
Each student says their own version of it. The other four prompts are in the slides, one to a morning.
Have the day’s slide on the board before the students come in. Say your own answer first, because it shows students how small their promise should be, and it means no student has to go first.
Each student finishes the sentence in a few words, and it has to be something they could have done by home time. A form of thirty takes about ninety seconds. Write down two or three names as you go, so you can check in with them the next morning.
The next morning, before the new prompt goes up, ask them how it went. Nobody has to explain a promise they did not keep, and “I didn’t” is a complete answer. Without that follow-up, the promises stop meaning much by about the second week.
A look inside
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There is nothing to print. Five prompts are in the slides, one to a morning, and five more are on the teacher guide. After those, the last slide asks students to bring you one of their own. Want to know when the second set goes up? Sign up here.
The activity slides
How it works, then five prompts one to a slide, and a last slide asking students for one of their own.
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One page: the teacher guide, and five more prompts for when the slides run out.
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