Have your elementary students practice reflecting and goal setting by instructing them to write a letter to themselves as a high schooler.
School Type: Elementary school
Activity Goal: Encourage graduation and SEL activity
Prep Time: 5 minutes
People Required: One Staffulty member and students
Space Required: Desk space
Timing: Any 10 – 20 minute period of time
Materials: Pencil, paper, crayons or markers, and an envelope
Submitted by: South Hancock Elementary School, MS
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Write the question “What is my main goal while enrolled in school?” on the board, and then verbally brainstorm with students.
- After brainstorming, play the graduation pomp and circumstance song on a speaker for everyone to listen. Ask students questions like:
- “Is this familiar?”
- “Where have you heard this?”
- Discuss the song, what it means to people, and how the days spent in school will lead to an important day in their future – their graduation!
- Instruct students to write a letter to their future self with their main school goals, and how achieving these goals will help them reach graduation.
- Have the students seal the envelope with their name on the outside.
- The envelope can then be kept safe by the teacher or school in order to give each student their note at the beginning of their first year in high school.
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