September 2025
Learner Profile Attribute of the Month: Caring
This month third graders have spent time learning how to be caring. This learner profile is important. We started the year off by identifying who we are.
Pillar of the Month: Kindness
Kindness is important in our classrooms. This includes students using positive language and kind acts throughout the day.
The Language Policy and What That Means in Our Classroom:
In our classroom language is represented throughout the day. Students have the opportunity to greet one another throughout the day. We respect home languages as well as the language expected to be spoken in school. We are going to begin learning new ways to say hello and good morning throughout the school year in brand new languages!
Units of Inquiry: Who We Are
Theme / Description: Exploring one's own beliefs, values, roles, and responsibilities
Lines of Inquiry: What is Identity? Rights and responsibilities of a community, Creating a mutual understanding of differences and similarities
Concepts: Perspective (Our upbringing, culture, and traditions shape our perspective and views about the world around us & Responsibility (We have a responsibility within our communities to make decisions that help others and bring each other together and the community stronger)
Approaches to Learning: Accepting Responsibility, Adopting a variety of group roles, Cooperating, Group decision making, Resolving conflict, Respecting Others
Learner Profiles:
Inquirer: Students will learn more about their own culture by doing research and asking questions and will then learn more about their fellow classmates through questions
Open-Minded: Learning to value and understand each other's aspects of identities
Reflective: Thinking about the role they play in their community?
Caring: Learn to respect one another's differences and care enough to have empathy for one another
Related Concepts:
Opinions
Beliefs
Values
Initiative
Personal Values
Exploring Form
Exploring Perspective