"Red Ribbon Door Decorating," said the Little Red Hen

It is that time of the year again. My class has completed our design for the 2013-2014 Red Ribbon week door, slightly ahead of schedule.
The door looks awesome as always. Really great.

And the best part is my iphone allowed me to blog it instantly after I put it up.

This year my school is not sponsoring a Red Ribbon Door Decorating Contest for the first time in my 30 whatever years. In fact I am hoping people do them anyway to encourage healthy, drug free lives. There is no time like the present to teach children to think about a life free of drug and alcohol dependency. There is hope always for those that need a drug to cope. Children can learn early on better ways to be!
Our school links the Red Ribbon Week to our Pillars of Character program, so this door was inspired by thinking of CHOICES- or picking and hence the pumpkin patch- what we want our CHARACTER to say about us.
We have 6 PILLARS and each represents a virtuous course.
Which would you choose?
My students (and myself) each chose a color we most identify with and made a PUMPKIN (just because it's a great place for a FACE) and designed a character. Next week they will each write an essay voicing that character as it describes the Character Trait and how you can best exemplify it.
Can you tell which one I am?

A hint: I am not quite as dumb as I seem.

 Each day we will wear the colors of the Pillars of Character-in this program the District promotes.
It has been an important foundation in our work.
Long ago when my husband was a Principal I was so proud of his newsletters to his school which promoted character traits. I see this as the precursor to this program.


Last year we did fantastic work as well.

Zip me an email, or drop a line for why I am not showing the designs last year or why I have a square on my page.  its smpuglisi(at)gmail (dot)com