Disney character classroom awards help!

[suttonal821]

I am a first year teacher and lover of all things Disney. I love to incorporate it any way that I can. I am toying with the idea of doing my end of the year classroom awards based on the personalities of Disney characters, but I need some help!
Any ideas are appreciated! TIA

 

[dngnb8]

I am a first year teacher and lover of all things Disney. I love to incorporate it any way that I can. I am toying with the idea of doing my end of the year classroom awards based on the personalities of Disney characters, but I need some help!
Any ideas are appreciated! TIA

what are the names of the awards?

 

[suttonal821]

Not any specific awards - I was hoping to base them off of the characteristics of different Disney characters. For example a Goofy award for a class clown.

 

[Magic Mom]

Not any specific awards - I was hoping to base them off of the characteristics of different Disney characters. For example a Goofy award for a class clown.

I think some kids might get their feelings hurt if the got a "Goofy" award.

 

[PirateFairy8]

Snow White - the tidiest desk/area
Finding Nemo - for the student who can find just about anything (had one of those!)
Belle - bookworm

There is a lot you can do with it, but I agree with a PP that you have to be careful with what you choose and what each award really says.

 

[marlynnp]

I think that if you need help with this, there's no way the majority of your first graders will understand it.

I'd just have the awards say what they are for and definitely not Goofy.

 

[Magic Mom]

Personally, even though the idea is cute, I would skip the Disney character awards. Class "awards" like these are bad enough, when one kid gets best reader and another gets best talker. even in the 1st grade the kids know which awards are pretend awards. If you did Disney, you would have to be very careful about who got a princess character as their award and who didn't. I don't raise my kids to be snowflakes, and if they didn't earn an academic award then they shouldn't get one, but if a teacher is doing class awards for silly things, I will have an issue if the message sent to my child is in anyway negative.

My friends daughter got a "Kleenex Award" for having the most sick days of the class... When other kids were getting brightest smile, hardest worker, most improved, this kid got an award for being the most sick. This was a beautiful young girl who had a rough year with viruses and a rough year with her parents divorce. Her feelings were hurt. Now the teacher didn't mean a thing by it, it was just a silly fun day type thing. But she didn't think of the impact on the child.

 

[descovy]

So Sneezy is a no-go
Best not use Dopey

I would think that if you incorporated a few Disney awards with regular awards it would be fine.

For example, "Finding Nemo" is a clever way to acknowledge the kid who can find anything, even among the best handwriting, etc., awards.
With some awards Disney themed (when appropriate) sprinkled with regular awards it may work