Today the students and I talked about bullying other people and why that's not a good thing to do. I had the kids draw a friend on a piece of paper and name them. After the kids got done coloring their friends I had them stand up and crumple up their friend (paper), toss it around, get angry with it and stomp on it.
All of the students did except one person...her name is Emily. Emily looked around the classroom and said, "Ms. A, I can't do that to my friend Maya, that's bullying." So I told the class to stop what they were doing and listen to Emily. Everyone then realized that Emily was right, we should all stop bullying other people. Let's respect each other.
