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Use Your Smile Today Poster and Photo Holder Set—acolorful way to encourage students to share their smiles andpositive attitudes and to display your students’ smiling facesfor all to enjoy.

This Really Good Stuff® product includes:• Use Your Smile Today Poster• 32 Check Out My Smile Photo Holders• This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide

Displaying the Use Your Smile Today Poster and PhotoHolder SetBefore displaying the Use Your Smile Today Poster and PhotoHolders, make copies of this Activity Guide, cut apart thereproducibles, and file the pages for future use. Or, downloadanother copy of it from our Web site www.reallygoodstuff.com.Hang the Poster and Photo Holders in a prominent spot sothat everyone entering the classroom can see you emphasizepositive attitudes in your classroom.

Introducing the Use Your Smile Today PosterExplain that people have different things they enjoy andtherefore, different reasons to smile. Choose students to pointto each photo on the Poster and tell why the person or animalmight be smiling. Talk about how a smile gives off positivefeelings and why positive feelings are important. Together,brainstorm things that make you and your students smile.

Have each student create a Smile Poster about what makeshim or her smile. Provide magazines, drawing paper, crayons,and other collage materials for students to choose images ofthings that make them smile, or have them draw pictures ofthings that make them happy. Students with writing skills caneither create a list of things that make them smile, or theycan choose one memory that makes them smile and then writeand illustrate a story about it. Display the students’ workaround the Use Your Smile Today Poster.

Say Cheese!Before you take a photo of each of your smiling students todisplay in the Photo Holders, brainstorm things that makethem smile, such as funny faces, jokes, and silly pictures, anduse those things to help your students wear their best smilesfor their portraits. (As an alternative, you can ask eachstudent to bring in a school picture or a smiling photo fromhome to place in his or her holder.) Display each photo in aPhoto Holder. Place the photo behind the holder so that theimage shows in the open space on the holder. Holding thephoto centered within the frame, tape it to the back.

Create a bulletin board display with the Poster and the PhotoHolders by centering the poster and arranging the holders aroundor underneath. Or, arrange the Photo Holders underneath thePoster in a large smile formation to complete your display.

Recognize Classroom Smiles and Positive AttitudesTo encourage positive attitudes further, complete copies of theYou Made Me Smile! Award Certificate Reproducible torecognize students who show a positive attitude in theclassroom, and add them to your classroom display.

Ways to Pass Along a SmileSmiles can be contagious—so help your students think ofways to make others smile and to brighten their days. As aclass, brainstorm the various ways that you can makesomeone else smile. Then provide magazines for students toflip through and cut out pictures that show things that mightmake people smile. Students can then assemble the imagesinto a collage, and glue them in place. Display their collagesunder the headline of Pass Along a Smile.

For a writing connection, have students write a poem or aparagraph on things that they can do to make other peoplesmile. Or, have them write about a time when they smiled tobrighten someone else’s day.

Name That SmileCreate a Name That Smile bulletin board: Have each studentbring in a baby picture from home. Copy and distribute theCheck Out My Baby Smile Photo Holder Reproducible and havestudents frame their photo. Write a number on each frame andhang the framed photos on the bulletin board. Then create a“ballot” with the photo numbers listed along with a line forstudents to write their classmates’ names. Encouragestudents to guess which baby photo belongs to which studentand to write that student’s name on the correct numberedline. Tally up the ballots to see who correctly identified themost classmates! You may even want to give the winner(s) a disposable camera as a prize.

Smile Acrostic PoemsCopy and distribute the Smile Acrostic Poem Reproducible forstudents and ask them to write SMILE acrostic poems.Challenge students to think of things that make them smile orthings that would make others smile, and use the letters inSMILE as the first letter in the word or phrase they use ineach line of the poem. Have students share their poems withthe class and/or post them around the Poster.

Pass Smiles AlongYour students can help encourage positive attitudes amongtheir classmates, too. Reproduce and cut out plenty of thetokens on the You Made Me Smile Tokens Reproducible, placethem in an envelope labeled Smiles, and clip them to the UseYour Smile Today Poster. Tell students that when they seesomeone who may need a pick-me-up, to take a token, decorateit, write an encouraging message on the back of it, and give itto that person. Likewise, if they see a classmate doingsomething that shows a positive attitude, they should givethat student a token, too!

Use Your Smile Today Poster and Photo Holder Set

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You Made Me Smile! Award Certificate Reproducible

Check Out My Baby Smile Photo Holder Reproducible

You Made Me Smile Tokens Reproducible

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