Categorizing Our Rules

I posted earlier about our classroom hopes and dreams.  After discussing all our dreams, we brainstormed rules that would help us accomplish these dreams.  We brainstormed over a hundred rules, but we decided that would be too many.  We decided to narrow our rules down to our top four or five.  We began by categorizing our rules into four main groups:  How We Treat Ourselves, How We Treat Others, How We Treat Property, and How We Do Our Best.  It was a fun classifying activity, and each group looked at our set of rules a little bit differently.  It led to a lot of interesting conversation among our groups.  After even more discussion, each group chose their most important rule from each category.  I'm currently in the process of compiling these rules to our top four or five.  Here are some pictures of the small groups categorizing and discussing our classroom rules. 

Categorizing Our Rules

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