Our Classroom Community
Everyone will be treated with respect in our classroom. The same expectation goes for the students towards their peers and adults. The students will be monitoring their behavior on a daily basis. It is important to us to ensure the children are respectful, kind, and compassionate people!
We are a Whole Brain Teaching classroom! We engage our whole brain throughout the and use movements and gestures to help us remember. This goes for our classroom rules and goals.
We have 5 classroom rules:
We focus on have a resortative community in our classroom. We value relationships and they are the key to any successful classroom! If the kids develop a bond with each other and you, they will run through a wall for you! You can build those relationships in many meaningful way! Everything with my flexible classroom, starts with the attitude and intentions my kids have towards our class.
The flexibility in our class works because of who my kids want to be!
The school uses a behavior matrix called ROAR. In all areas of the school students are expected to show ROAR behavior. That means being Respectful, taking Ownership, being Accountable, and being Responsible. We will also be using ROAR in our classroom.
It is amazing how three little letters can drastically change the framework of a persons mind! The power of YET is something that I started saying in my classroom three years ago. As a class, we applied the word YET to the end of sentences when we were struggling and things didn't seem so daunting anymore. There are two kinds of mindsets; a fixed mindset where you believe that people are where they are and there can be no change or a growth mindset in which people change constantly grow beyond what they thought possible.
I find once my students truly believe in the power of adding YET to ideas, they are willing to take chances in their learning. They encourage one another and will say, "It's not that you don't know your doubles, you just don't them YET." It is not that you can't tie your shoes, you just can't do it yet! Even as a teacher, it is not that I can't use the SMART board, I just can't do some features YET. The word YET adds so much power to your vocabulary!
We show ROAR behavior in our classroom!
We have been practicing Whole Body Listening and Learning. It is important that our whole body is participating in discussions and during learning.
ROAR
Respect- raise your hand, follow adult directions, keep hands and feet to yourself, don’t talk while others are talking
Ownership- try your best, be honest, clean up after yourself, and make good choices
Accepting- listen to others, include others, remain positive
Ready- be prepared, line up quietly, wait your turn, bring your things home AND back to school
ROAR CARD: You made a great choice!