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These resources are a catalyst for discussing rights and responsibilities at the beginning of the year or in November in conjunction with International Children's Day.
Cards of groups students may belong to, cards are used to sort, identify with, use in drama games and writing. Also sorted as which groups do you belong to automatically and which to you join as a choice?
I add cards each year for new students interests. YOU MAY HAVE TO ADD THE ACCENTS TO ALL OF THESE CARDS. Cut into 4, laminate.
Cards of careers. Used in kindergarten for a community helpers unit (this is just a sample, men and women, traditional and non-traditional).
Posters of the rights of the child (they are each linked to the seven habits of happy kids as we are a Leader in Me school). Have students generate their own posters and identify a responsibility that would accompany each right.
Cut and paste to review rights and responsibilities. Following the activity students use their sheet during the week to track when they exercise each right and in turn exercise each corresponding responsibility. Students later illustrated the right they are most thankful they can enjoy as a Canadian citizen, I bind their responses into a collaborative book to add to the classroom library. (you may have to add the accents, sorry!)
About me and my groups poster. Originally used for K but is appropriate for Grade 1 also. Great for students to present to the class and to parents on student showcase night.
We make collaborative books every month and put them into clear sleeves to add to the classroom library. At the end of the year each child's pages are bound into a book that they wrote and can read. Here are the pages for this month.
Student brought in symbols from groups they belong too (uniforms, medals, guide books, artifacts). I photographed them and added the photographs to this page.
Precede watching the video with; What is a right? What do you think you have a 'right' to (what do parents and teachers HAVE to let you do?). Do you think it's the law for you to have the right to things or is just a nice idea?
Classroom Mission Statements
Rather than the usual classroom rules why not develop a classroom mission statement with your students. Often, these statements begin as a vision of how you would ideally like things to be. Your mission then describes how you plan to reach your vision.
Questions to help guide you and your students (targeting k-2 students):
What is unique and special about you that you bring to this classroom?
Why do we come to school?
What do you want to learn in grade _____?
How do you feel about coming to school and our classroom?
How do you want to feel when you come into our classroom?
If someone (parent, administrator) were to describe our class, what would you want them to say about us?
What will you tell your parents or your siblings about this class?
Do we only come to school to learn?
Describe the best day ever at school. What could we do to make every day that awesome?
In the end keep it simple, acronyms or rhyming phrases are easy to remember for young students. Have students write the mission in their agenda or print it off on a magnet for parents to learn at home. Refer to the class mission often throughout the year. Use it to guide decisions and solve problems and conflicts.
In one school the mission statements must be created with students within the first week of school. They are posted outside of each classroom, often with students signatures or artwork as a ‘contract’.
Try creating your own professional mission statement. It’s amazing how impacting it can be to whittle down your beliefs about children and teaching to a few simple basic statements about what you know for sure.
I believe that every child can learn. I believe that every teacher can inspire. I believe that everyone can lead.
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