This document discusses showing kindness, respect, and pride at school. It emphasizes picking up trash, respecting custodians, and keeping the school clean. It outlines custodians' many responsibilities like snow removal, setting up events, and deep summer cleaning. It encourages students to clean up after themselves in lockers, lunchroom, and restrooms. It thanks the head custodian Rod Carver and assistant Ashley Walton for their hard work keeping the school running. It suggests learning from Japanese students' pride in their school and practicing empathy, listening, acceptance and kindness.

1. SHOWING KINDNESS &
RESPECT
February Character Education 2017

2. LearningTarget
• I can show kindness to others by
• Being empathetic
• Listening
• Being more accepting
• Respecting differences
• Doing random acts of kindness for others

3. Showing pride in your school & community…
Classroom discussion
• Why do you think we should show pride in our school… our work place… our
community?
• How can you show pride in your school and/or community?
• What things in our school have you noticed that we can work on?

4. Our school…
This space is loaned to us. It is your space, my space, and a whole lot of other
people’s space to use.When you, your parents, students from other schools, and
guests come to our school, it should be a nice, clean, and inviting environment that
people want to come to. It is a representation of our community and all of us.
Snowcrest should be a place that we are proud to represent through our actions…
our behavior… and our speech. It is ours to take care of and show that we appreciate
the opportunity to utilize this space in a positive way.We appreciate having a great
facility to come to and learn… we appreciate our teachers… we appreciate our
entire staff and faculty that run our school… and we appreciate our students!
We are a team and should work together to accomplish the goal of making our
school great. EVERY person in the school has a responsibility to do their part.

5. We can and need to do better!
• Pick up garbage anytime you can – even if its not yours
• Don’t throw items.There is no need to throw items across the hall or room at any
time! Walk over to the garbage can and place your garbage in it.
• Respect our custodians and the difficult job they have. Have you ever had to clean
up after other people? Have you ever had to clean up a public bathroom?
• Each and every day, we should be doing all we can to make the jobs of our
custodians easier.
• We need to show our APPRECIATION to our custodians by showing
KINDNESS AND RESPECT to them!

6. A Day in the Life of a Custodian…
• Do you know all of the responsibilities of our custodians? Here’s a few of them:
• Snow removal (this allows us to get in the parking lot, onto the sidewalks, and into our school safely!)
• Setting up for games and activities (stomps, dances, Halloween Carnival, etc), and cleaning up after, when
we all get to go home.
• Mowing lawns and keeping school grounds neat and clean, fixing and maintaining things
• Taking care of our lockers, bringing out and taking down our Christmas tree
• Changing lights, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cleaning windows, emptying trash cans, taking out recycle
and garbage, cleaning and scrubbing bathrooms.
• Summer cleaning – every desk and chair and piece of furniture is removed from classrooms for deep
cleaning and carpet cleaning.
• Locking up – checking all windows and doors and making sure our school is safe!
• AND… much, much MORE!

7. It’s OUR job… all of us!
• Be responsible for yourself!
1. Locker rooms: Make sure you clean up all of the messes you make. Keep all of your
belongings locked in your locker.This is not a place to mess around with your friends. It’s a
place to change into your PE clothes. Get in and get out.
2. Lunchtime: If you drop something… pick it up. If you spill something… clean it up.There
are towels and a mop right by the kitchen.Throw ALL of your trash away… there are
garbage cans everywhere within a couple of feet of you! It takes very little effort to clean up
YOUR space.Too many times we hear, “its not mine.” If you are right there… please pick it
up.
3. Restrooms: Some students need a reminder. Be appropriate… be respectful… be thankful
we have nice/clean restrooms to use. Use the restroom ONLY for what it is intended for.
4. Games/After school activities:A lot of garbage and messes have been left behind. It is not
the custodians job to clean up our messes. It’s your job to take what you bring. Soda cans,
wrappers, gum, candy… make sure you put it where it belongs.

8. SHOUT OUTTO ROD & ASHLEY…
• Please show our Head Custodian, Rod Carver, and Assistant Custodian, Ashley
Walton, and our part-time custodians the utmost appreciation and respect!
• Our school could not run without them!They are very hard workers and we need
to SHOW them andTELL themTHANKYOU often.

9. Let’s learn from Japanese students…
• When you have pride in your school and feel invested in something, it’s easier to
take care of it and show respect.
• We spend a lot of time here at Snowcrest… watch and learn from these young
students!

10. Practice and use your skills…
• Practice using the skills we have discussed this month and start applying them
• Being empathetic
• Listening
• Being more accepting
• Respecting differences
• Doing random acts of kindness for others
In the words of two students from Snowcrest who were recently in Mrs.
Roane’s office,
“Being nice is not that hard!You just do it… it’s so easy!!!”