Dear Parents,
We would like to thank you for allowing your child to participant in our Good Manners Learning Adventure project. The goal of our project is to help younger students understand the importance of being respectful to parents, teachers, and their friends. There are Georgia Performance Standards that include this topic as well as standards from the Center for Disease Control. These include: SSKCG1:The student will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship.
a. Explain how rules are made and why.
b. Explain why rules should be followed.
SSKCG2: The student will retell stories that illustrate positive character traits and will explain how the people in the stories show the qualities of honesty, patriotism, loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride, self- control, moderation, and accomplishment.
CDC 4.2. Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
CDC 7.2.1Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.
We believe the more they practice at home with you, and the more you encourage and discipline your children in practicing good manners, the more they will appreciate them and use them later in their lives. So, we are asking that you help us, and most importantly, your children out in helping the acquire the necessary ways to treat the people they encounter. Below we have provided a link to an article with a limitless amount of books that will encourage and assist you with this daunting task. These books provide books that children will be interested in, and also goes way beyond “please” & “thank you.” Includes topics such as sharing, specifics for both genders, and parental guides.
Other books not mentioned here, but that we find helpful are:
We appreciate your assistance and dedication to our project and hope that you feel manners are just as important as we do. Let us know if you have any questions, comments or concerns, and hope to receive positive feedback from the activities we have provided for your students. You can upload your feedback to the "Assignment Submit" form provided for you on the "Organize" tab of the website, or comment in the space provided below. Thank you again. We know time is invaluable, and we are honored to take up some of yours!
Best Wishes,
Malia & Emily
We would like to thank you for allowing your child to participant in our Good Manners Learning Adventure project. The goal of our project is to help younger students understand the importance of being respectful to parents, teachers, and their friends. There are Georgia Performance Standards that include this topic as well as standards from the Center for Disease Control. These include: SSKCG1:The student will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship.
a. Explain how rules are made and why.
b. Explain why rules should be followed.
SSKCG2: The student will retell stories that illustrate positive character traits and will explain how the people in the stories show the qualities of honesty, patriotism, loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride, self- control, moderation, and accomplishment.
CDC 4.2. Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
CDC 7.2.1Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.
We believe the more they practice at home with you, and the more you encourage and discipline your children in practicing good manners, the more they will appreciate them and use them later in their lives. So, we are asking that you help us, and most importantly, your children out in helping the acquire the necessary ways to treat the people they encounter. Below we have provided a link to an article with a limitless amount of books that will encourage and assist you with this daunting task. These books provide books that children will be interested in, and also goes way beyond “please” & “thank you.” Includes topics such as sharing, specifics for both genders, and parental guides.
Other books not mentioned here, but that we find helpful are:
- 365 Manners Kids Should Know: Games, Activities, and Other Fun Ways to Help Children and Teens Learn Etiquette
- The Gift of Good Manners: A Parent's Guide to Raising Respectful, Kind, Considerate Children by
We appreciate your assistance and dedication to our project and hope that you feel manners are just as important as we do. Let us know if you have any questions, comments or concerns, and hope to receive positive feedback from the activities we have provided for your students. You can upload your feedback to the "Assignment Submit" form provided for you on the "Organize" tab of the website, or comment in the space provided below. Thank you again. We know time is invaluable, and we are honored to take up some of yours!
Best Wishes,
Malia & Emily