Sawtooth

Social justice starts with empathy and a sense of community and connectedness to others. Sawtooth will use a project-based approach on this day to build community across grade-levels. We hope to create an even stronger Sawtooth identity and build mentoring / buddy relationships between students while we explore themes of justice. Empathy and community are ways to preempt injustice before it ever starts!

Sawtooth students will be divided into mixed K-4 groups, shared among all classroom teachers. Half of Sawtooth will work in classrooms on a justice alphabet book while the other half of Sawtooth will rotate through specialists. Students will also work with local professional storyteller, Rose Arrowsmith-DeCoux. Mixed-age groups will rotate through recess, lunch and a campfire where they can sing what they learned at music.

Specialists:

• PE: Cooperative K-4 game that can also be played at recess
• Music: Songs for organizing and community building
• Media: Professional storytelling around themes of justice, empathy, fairness and equality

At the end of the day, students will return to their to home classrooms to debrief the day and complete their dismissal routines.