Project Leader: Viktoriia Hordiienko, Ukraine — vikakalina70@gmail.com
Start/Finish dates: January 2026 – March 2026
Students 10-14 years old
Registration Deadline: January 26, 2026

Let’s celebrate World Compliment Day to help students know how to make compliments and give the chance to know how the compliments are made in different countries. It will develop their cross-cultural awareness. Teaching children to give compliments is useful, as it develops their emotional intelligence, teaches them to see beauty in others and themselves, promotes the formation of a positive attitude towards others and makes communication more pleasant. Compliments also help to raise the mood and self-esteem of both the person who says them and the person to whom they are addressed.

Teams will be divided into two categories:
10-12 years old and 13-14 years old
The number of teams – 10
The number of students in each team – 10-30
All the teams will be joined in groups of two by a random wheel at our first online meeting in Zoom.

Goals of the Project

Development of emotional intelligence:
When children learn to identify positive traits in others, they also develop the ability to see the positive in themselves, as well as the ability to express emotions and respect.

Formation of a positive attitude:
Compliments help create an atmosphere of trust and positive communication, which is an important component of healthy relationships.

Development of communication skills:
Children learn not only to give compliments, but also learn to listen and understand how others perceive them.

Increasing self-esteem:
The ability to receive and respond to compliments helps children better understand their strengths and see themselves more positively.

Positive emotions:
Saying or hearing a compliment brings joy and positive emotions, which makes communication more pleasant.

Positive perception of the world:
The ability to see the good in others helps children to perceive the world around them more positively. Compliments, especially addressed to children’s achievements, can contribute to motivation and the formation of a positive attitude towards learning

General culture of communication:
The ability to give compliments is an important part of the general culture of communication and politeness.

Increasing confidence:
When children learn to give compliments, it also helps to boost their self-confidence.

Improving writing skills:
The Project will offer exercises where children learn not only to speak, but also to write and draw compliments, which contributes to the development of writing, artistic and speaking skills.

 

Timeline Details

January
1.1 Registration
Please email Viktoriia at vikakalina70@gmail.com to begin Registration and she will supply you with links to:
– Google Doc for your signup information
– WhatsApp group for the project

Request to join the private Facebook Group at This Link.

1.2 Participants will join the Storyjumper book website where all the material created by students will be kept. As soon as you write your emails to the contact list, the project leader will send you an invitation to join the Storyjumper book. The instructions how to use Storyjumper will be given and recorded on our first online partners meeting. The teams will be divided into groups and each group  will have their own pages in the book. For the group work you can use any social sites or organise online meetings where you can discuss the stages of work.

1.3 Partners online meeting to discuss the plan of the project. Deadline January 30th

February
2.1 Week 1 – compliments in pictures.
Students of each team will draw the pictures and upload them to the Storyjumper eBook. The other team from the same group should write down the compliment they think is drawn in it. Then each group will choose one picture with the compliment which they think is the best and send their picture to the project leader  by email vikakalina70@gmail.com who will upload it to the Google Form for voting for the best Picture Compliment. Google Form will be pasted on our Facebook group.

Deadline for the task – February 8

2.2 Week 2– compliments in words
In our eBook we will have pages for the second week where each group will create the following task: we have two teams in each group. The first team will start the first line of the rhyming compliment, the second team should create the second line. To explain children how to rhyme the words, propose them to use RhymeZone on the Internet. Then the second team will start the first line and the first team will create the second one. All the example how to do it are given in the book and will be explained during our first online meeting.

Deadline for the task – February 15

2.3 Weeks 3 and 4 – digital games (create a digital game about compliments for your partners to play) Week 3 each of the teams will be working on creating a digital game. It can be Kahoot, Canva, Nearpod, Quizlet, Quizziz, Baamboozle etc. All the instructions how to use these web2 tools will be given on our Facebook group page. Week 4 you will send your game to your group partner and they will play it. The results (videos, photos, certificates) will be uploaded to our Facebook group page and to our common eBook.

Deadline – February, 28th

March 1 – common online meeting (students and teachers) with presenting the eBook and celebrating World Compliment Day!

Deadline –  March,1.

Please send all questions to vikakalina70@gmail.com.