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Counselor's Corner - October, 2017

The FranklinPressCounselor's Corner - October, 2017
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Character is Super!

This month we unveiled the theme for our year-long character education program: Character is Super! Each month throughout the year, we will teach the children about character traits that enhance students' success both inside and outside of school. Lessons about traits like respect, trustworthiness, responsibility, fairness and others will be delivered through assemblies, classroom guidance lessons, and more.


To reinforce the importance of positive character, each class was given a Character Cape for display in their classroom. Classes who demonstrate an understanding of the character trait for the month will be awarded with a button at the end of the month to pin onto the cape and serve as a reminder for them each day in the classroom.


We launched the program this month with a focus on respect. The article below provides additional information.

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Respect Others: Sock-it to Sassy!

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Respect is Super!

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Respect Brings Us Together!

Ben Franklin Shows Respect

The Week of Respect (October 2nd - 6th) was filled with fun, participation, and learning. The week started off with the students and staff "Socking-it to Sassy" by wearing crazy or mismatched socks. During a morning assembly students were taught about the meaning of respect, how respect can be shown to others, our school, the community/earth, and themselves. They watched a video in which teachers and staff were "caught" behaving disrespectfully, but students modeled respectful behavior.


Throughout the week classes made chain-links by writing examples of ways in which they can show respect on strips of paper. For example, on Wednesday as we focused on Respect for the Community/Earth, classes wrote on the paper links, citing examples of ways in which they can show that kind of respect (e.g., recycling or not polluting).


On Friday in a final Week of Respect assembly, all the chain links created by each class were assembled into one giant chain that has been hung as a reminder of how respect for one another, our school, ourselves, and the earth enable us to come together as a community of learners.

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Contact Us

Website: http://www.ltps.org/BenFranklin.cfm?subpage=5920
Location: 2939 Princeton Pike, Lawrence Township, NJ, United States
Phone: 609-671-5540
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ben-Franklin-Elementary-School-1061038223946729/timeline/
Twitter: @bfes_ltps

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