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A compliment!

16/5/2013

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Today's feel good activity was to view the Street Compliments YouTube video produced by one of my favourite groups Soul Pancake.  My Year 7s students were mesmerised while the characters gave their all and told their friends/Mothers/Fathers how they really felt about them.  At the conclusion of the clip the students clapped and I launched into our next task - our Bullying assignment - a report outcome - a marked task with a set due date.  This was until one of my students started waving his hands around asking "Well aren't we going to do that?"  "Um" I replied having not really thought it through... "Sure!"  We quickly grabbed a glue stick to act as a microphone and it was decided that my cupped hands would make perfect earphones!  A number of students chose to come to the front of the class and tell their classmates how they felt about them - "Thanks for making me laugh", "You are a great friend", "You helped me when I needed it most"... I even got a go - "Thanks for being a great teacher and always fixing out laptops so we don't have to visit ICT!".  What a magical, unplanned lesson that left us all with warm fuzzies in the pit of our stomachs!
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