Character Trait of the month - Responsibility

Birch Meadow’s character education program focuses on 6 themes of character:

Respect, Friendship, Honesty, Responsibility, Cooperation and Caring. Responsibility is the character trait we will be focusing on this month. In order to reinforce Responsibility through literacy, all students will be listening to or reading the book The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson, illustrated by Andrea Shine. This book reinforces responsibility when a young boy makes a bad choice and makes up for it by helping the person he hurt. Teachers and staff will be looking for students showing Responsibility and we are encouraging parents to do the same at home. Your child will be bringing home a bear this week. Please reward your child when you see him/her showing Responsibility by filling out the bear with your child’s name, room number and what they did to show Responsibility. The bear will be added to the other bears in a container in the office and posted in the lobby.
Mr. Sprung will read one bear from each grade level at our next assembly.

The bear will be returned to you at the end of the month. Thank you for your cooperation with this program, and we look forward to reading how your child has shown Responsibility at home!


Thank you,
Eric Sprung