Living Together Differently

During the first week of school, I asked the kids - What does it mean to "live together differently?"  Some kids thought it referred to the fact that we're all different, yet we all have to get along.  Others thought it referred to the idea that our classroom would be a different place - a place where we would learn and live together in different ways.  They're both right.  In order to explore this idea more fully, we read picture books each day that spoke to this idea of "living together differently."  After sharing each book, we held a discussion and came up with several big ideas we learned.  We came up with nearly a hundred ideas, but the following video shares our top 24 ideas we learned about how we live together differently in Room 241...

Living Together Differently

At the beginning of the year, we asked ourselves, "What does it mean to live together differently?" We have 28 students in our class - each one is unique. How do we expect to work together, get along, and live within these four walls of this very small classroom for almost 7 hours each day? I shared some picture books with the kids that focus in on this issue, and we came up with lots of ideas of how to "live together differently." The video below shows some of the ideas we felt were most important...