CAPTION: Amazing Child Trusting The Savior
(Photo Taken by Emily Morris)

Background Information

A.C.T.S. is based on Acts 17:22 - 30. We encourage our children in ACTS to search and find God. ACTS is for 2nd to 6th graders. There is fun and fellowship at the meetings. The meetings occur twice a month. If you are interested in knowing more, please call New Hope Community Church at 317-881-6204.

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"Character Counts" Campaign

Character Counts Pledge

Character Counts Pledge
I pledge to be a kid for character
I will be worthy of trust
I will be respectful and responsible
Doing what I must
I will always act with fairness
I will show that I care
I will be a good citizen
And always do my share.

Character Counts! National Office - Character Education Resources

http://www.charactercounts.org/

(Quoted from the website)
"CHARACTER COUNTS! is the most widely implemented approach to character education. It's a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition embraces thousands of schools, communities and nonprofits. The national office provides consulting and training services and produces support materials and special projects."

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Memory Verses

CAPTION: "Romans 1:20 - God is real, open your eyes! Take a long thoughtful look at what God has created. Even though God is invisible, you can see His eternal power as a holy being in His creation."
(Photo taken by Emily Morris.)

In A.C.T.S., children are encouraged to learn Bible verses by memory. They have been practicing the verse that was learned this past August at Illiana Junior Camp (pictured above). Other verses will be posted as I receive them.

Proverbs 20:11 "Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right."

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Behavior Management Plan

The behavior management plan is two-fold. Focus on positive behaviors and have consequences for negative behaviors.

Rewards

Attendance/Reward chart: each child will have one. They will vary from class to class because of age differences. Suggested uses: attendance, memory verses, Character counts pledge, catching character counts actions in class.

Discipline

Acceptable Behavior will consist of the following expectations:

• Think before you speak or act.
• Being respectful to God, self, others and "things."
• When one person speaks, all others listen (exception when there is group talk)
• Polite, building up words/ways - keep negative talk to self.

Method of Discipline will be in a stoplight method. Each child will start on "green" and move to different colors if an inappropriate behavior is observed. Here is what the various colors will mean.

• "Green" - good behavior
• "Yellow" - warning
• "Red" - stop and remove student
• "Black" - Student writes age appropriate letter to parents, parents are summoned.

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