There are several ways that students can do this creatively. For a draw start, teachers give students a paper with 1-3 lines/shapes, and ask students to turn these lines/shapes into something. I like to give students a draw start to see how creative they already are. Sticky notes are fantastic because at the end you can group different stick note rules together and eventually come up with the main rules for your classroom.īy walking the room and thinking from different perspectives, you are encouraging empathy, expecting creativity, and then getting students to think critically as they group the rules and synthesize them into new ones!Īfter seeing how Barney Saltzberg turns accidents into something else entirely, students are ready to try their hand at this! Draw starts are great first day of school drawing activities! Students can keep track of the rules they brainstorm on notebook paper, sticky notes, chart paper, or whatever else you have available. Students walk from card to card and talk with each other about three things:ġ- What is important to this object or person at school? To incorporate some movement (getting out those back to school wiggles!) hang these cards around the room with words like pencil, book, chair, lights, student, kindergartener, etc. But rather than doing a Plain Jane discussion, students could come up with rules ideas based on different objects or people.
After hearing about the perspective of the school building, this book opens itself up nicely to a conversation about rules.
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