Sixth Age boys and girls learned how manners help with friendships, social awareness skills, and self-confidence. After reading a few fun books with them, I showed them my board decorated like a dining room table. The table had "guests" around it (drawings of boys, girls, and adults), and as a class we decided who should stay and who should be excused! For example, the boy picking at his teeth needed to do that in the bathroom so he was excused. The girl holding a bowl of soup and licking it with her tongue was taken off, as was the boy with his feet on the table. The children seemed to enjoy this activity, and understood from the drawings who was "in" and who was "out." Manners do matter, but if one spent a lot of time watching T.V. and movies, one might think they didn't matter any more. Children who are polite are respected by both peers and adults; people want to be around them. Manners matter because they directly relate to respect, compassion, responsibility, and honor--our four Calvert Pillars.
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| Myrna helps us decide who should stay and who should go! |
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