We have been having several class discussions, over the past two months, on feelings and how we want to feel while we are at school. We did a huge brainstorm and came up with a long list of feelings that are important to us. We then whittled that list down to four categories, leaving in the original feelings.
The next step was to discuss what we all need to do, and how we all need to behave, so that we can all feel these ways.
These are the students’ words. I was very impressed with what they came up with. They are very insightful!
Our next step will be to look at what we do (what happens) when someone doesn’t follow our Charter.
This Charter process is part of the RULER program out of Yale University. All of Rosser (each class) is working through this process. We are all at different stages.
As a part of RULER we are also looking at feelings and learning how to plot ourselves on the Mood Meter, a chart in the classroom. Initially we have been charting the main characters from the Harry Potter series as we read each day. We will be working towards charting ourselves in the next few weeks. I will post more about the Mood Meter in a day or so.
This vocabulary may help you with your child as you discuss how their day was at school.