These Aliens Have Manners

Don't you love that scene in Jerry Maguire where he gets fired and when he leaves the office he shouts, "These fish have manners!"  Cracks.  Me.  Up.

Well, we all know that manners matter.  I found a fun Monster Manners game for the younger elementary grade levels at File Folder Fun (click here) but didn't know what to do for my older elementary kids.  I settled on using Fuzzoodles.  After a discussion on manners, I split the kids into groups of 3 or 4 and gave them some Fuzzoodles.

You can buy these on the internet!  So much fun to make monsters!  

Kids were instructed to create an alien out of their fuzzoodles and to name their alien.  

Then, I gave them one of these papers with different situations (lunch room, meeting a new person, etc) and said, "If your alien just landed from another planet, could you give them the "do's" and "don't's" so they don't embarrass themselves in these situations?  You are so helpful to your alien!"  

It was really fun for the kids to present their alien to the class and a great reminder to USE YOUR MANNERS!