AULAS FELICES (II)

Gratitudes wall

Objetives: to publicly express phrases of gratitude. 

Development: 

Prior the plan of this activity, the importance of gratitude should have been worked on and it woul be recommendable to do some activities in order to develop the power of gratitude in the students mind. With the present exercise what it is intended is to develop that power so as to foster daily gratitude actions.

We are going to reserve a space in the classroom to allocate a "gratitude wall". We can use a free wall and place there a big piece of wrapping-paper, which can be titled and decorated by the students. Close to the wall, we will put some post-its. The students will be provided with the rule that whatever happens to them to be appreciated they should take a post-it, write a gratitude phrase on it and stick it to the wall. The gratitude can be directed to classmates, parents, teachers, friends, animals...

Resources: 

Wrapping-paper. Post-its. 

Time: 

The wall can be hanged in class during as much time as the teacher and the want. The contributions of the pupils and done punctually, when somebody what to make his/her gratitudes public. Sometimes, it is advisable that the teacher reserves some minutes to read the contributions written in the wall so that they can be commented by the whole class.