In our classroom we will focus on building relationships with one another, forming connections, building a sense of community and working together to solve problems through the Responsive Classroom Approach.
Two things we will be incorporating into our classroom this year are morning meeting and creating rules!
Morning meeting is a time for students to greet each other, share things that make them who they are, play games with their classmates and prepare themselves for what academics are to come that day!
Creating classroom rules is when the students decide what rules they should hold themselves to each and every day. This allows students to feel ownership over the expectations we hold for them on a daily basis. When our class has created our classroom rules, I will send the list of rules home for you to see!
We will have a kindness jar, this idea came from a previous Dr. Martin Luther King Scholastic Let's Find Out magazine, the goal is to fill it up and earn something fun for the class. I let the students vote on how they want to celebrate filling up the jar!