Phone Manners

In social studies, we have been learning about ourselves and how we are each created differently by God and for God.  Today we started to talk about how we can be friends to others and I brought out our newly minted class phone books! (Thank you to everyone who got an email or number for me to put into the book.)  We discussed how we could talk to our friends on the phone and then practiced calling people (with an unplugged phone) while using our good manners.  How fun to hear the kids starting with a greeting and then politely asking to speak to someone, next asking questions of their friend, followed by a polite closing.  Hopefully, each of the kids will begin to develop positive phone skills.  I mentioned to all of them that they may want to call someone to talk to on Friday (when it is a professional development day) or call to try to arrange a play date for that day.  We'll see if any of them actually want to use their phone books!