My first thought on what to post about my first two days of school was ruled out when I realized I can't actually use students' real names on this blog (you have all heard of the fantastic names parents continue to come up with--some don't translate nearly as well when you read them instead of hearing them first--Orangejello and Lemonjello are a couple popular ones that come up in these conversations; Abcde (pronounced Ab-su-dee) is another one]. But alas, I can't share with you the priceless names of my new little energetic chicklets. I think I'm already walking a fine line by having a blog at all. I suppose that danger is inherent in most jobs with the ever-increasing public access to formerly private information on the beautiful and glorious world wide web; yet I still feel that I am particularly vulnerable as an educator. Call me paranoid, call me egocentric, but that's how I feel.
Today in class, we did a new activity that I think worked fairly well: Students worked in pairs to come up with rules that they thought would be appropriate for this year and would help everyone have the best opportunity to learn. They then wrote these rules on post-its and placed them in different areas around the room. With post-its covering the walls, they walked around the room to see all the rules that we had come up with and proceeded to vote for their favorites by putting check-marks on those post-its.
I was pretty impressed with what the kids came up with. All of the rules are centered around our character education program. Now it's just a matter of consolidating them. And time will tell if they will follow them!
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