This is a picture of our essential agreements (or rules). As a class, we decided that these agreements would help us work well as a community.
Essential Agreements
Another important component of the first day is establishing how our community will work together. The students worked in cooperative groups to come up with ideas/rules that help a community work better. This activity ties in directly to our first planner of the year: Who We Are.
The central idea is that actions and attitudes affect our community.
The students did a great job developing ideas in their groups. One recurring issue that most groups talked about was that it was hard to hear the teacher if other people are talking.
As a result we made one of our essential agreements: Be a good listener.
How many boys and girls in our classroom?
Our first job of the day was to figure out a way to find how many boys and how many girls were in our classroom. We started by using ourselves to make a bar graph. Next, we create a picture representation of ourselves and created a pictograph. Now, it's easy to see that we have more boys than girls. The exact amount: 16 boys and 8 girls.
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