9.4.13

Today students were introduced to two games that will be available during our Math Stations. Pick up Sticks and the Plate Balance game allows students to practice developing their own strategies, turn taking, fair play and spatial reasoning skills.

Today we also had a discussion about reporting. Now that we have established our rules for the classroom, (1. Take care of ourselves  2. Take care of each other 3. Take care of our classroom)

 we thought it would be great to talk about how we plan to enforce the rules. When do we report to a teacher? When do we handle a situation ourselves? And finally when do we just simply let it go? Going along with Responsive Classroom practices the emphasis is that we need to hear from our students and encourage them to report when a child is physically or emotionally hurt. It is important that we take care of each other and ourselves and make decisions on the behaviors and things we see and experience during the day here at school. We sorted scenarios today in the pocket chart to help us figure it all out.