A few of the current 5th graders were suspiciously hanging around outside of my classroom (which is very unusual since all of our student meet downstairs to start the day). They asked if they could borrow some tape, and said what they were doing was a secret, so not to look. They were some of the most trustworthy and sweetest kids, so I smiled and left them to their mysterious task. When my class came upstairs, each child found a note of encouragement taped to their locker! They loved them (and many of them kept the notes inside of their lockers after they took them off the front.)
But the best part was that our class decided to pay it forward. We created anonymous notes for the kindergarteners and first graders… who then made notes for second and third graders! Within about a week, all the K-4 lockers were decorated with positive notes!