We are a community
Near the end of the year we had a small problem with tattling, where many students were tattling on each other instead of trying to work out problems on their own. One way that we as a class worked to solve this was to implement a system of "positive tattling" where students would tattle that others were doing positive things.
Examples of positive tattling:
Examples of positive tattling:
- M tattled on his friend for helping to clean up a center he didn't play at
- K tattled on a friend for waiting for her before going outside for recess
- Z tattled on a friend for encouraging him when he was having trouble with an activity
Team Work
As a community it is important that the class is able to work together to complete activities. We did a lot of small group work in order to allow students to work with different classmates throughout the term.
In the images above students were given the task to explore and build using 3-D objects. Each group was told that they had to work together to build a tower, house, bridge or an agreed upon creation. In order to complete the task, students had to talk to each other and work to make one creation. At the end I took a photo of each group with their creation to celebrate the hard work and effort that was put into working as one to finish the task
One aspect I stressed in class was the ability to work with different friends in the class. I created different groups throughout the term to allow everyone the chance to work together. In the one activity, students worked in partners or in groups of three to create a picture using geometric shapes. In the activity, the students were given one pencil, one glue stick and one pair of scissors. They had to work together and take turns when making additions to the pictures. Groups had to have constructive discussions and conversations to complete the activity. At the end, students shared how they worked together and told the story of their picture together. We shared in order to show the different and wonderful creations the class can make using the same material.