Fishing for compliments

Posted on July 2, 2012 By Editor Junior Residents

By Ally Schneider, Lily El Hassan, Brendan Farrell and Abbie Miller

Mrs. Ossi, the 7^th grade religion teacher at San Jose Catholic School, suggested to her students that we do a Lenten project at school

We all enthusiastically agreed.

When it came time to choose the project, everyone poured in their ideas. The number one choice was a compliment board or banner. After much consideration, the theme “Fishing for Compliments” was chosen.

We decided to create a large mural of an ocean to serve as the compliment board. The Pre-K4 classes received butterflies to decorate. All the other grades were given fish that had the name of a classmate written on them. Whoever you got, you had to write a compliment about them on the fish. The fish were placed in old shoeboxes decorated by the 7^th grade students. The fish in the boxes where then collected and posted on the board where the entire student body could see the compliments on exhibit.

Nowadays, people don’t give and receive compliments as much as they used to. The compliment board was the perfect solution for this problem.