Welcome to a stream of ideas as I venture on a journey to develop young writers. This blog will be influenced by my current reading list, conferences, colleagues, your comments and of course the students I work with each day. The connection between all forms of early literacy will also frequent the blog and their importance in the writing process for young learners.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Know Your Higher Self
Earlier in the week I sliced about talking to Barry Lane on the phone. Since then I have begun to implement some of the ideas from his new book, Force Field for Good. I am so excited by this program and its message. Imagine if we all chose to be our higher selves, what a world it would be!
We scrapped our old rule chart and drew pictures of ourselves. I connected them in a circle writing our one and only classroom rule, Be Your Higher Self. It makes me a little teary every time I look at the chart. It reminds me what a group we have become and how connected we are, like a family. Here is our chart:
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5 comments:
I love this idea of being your higher self. I wonder how my seventh graders would respond to it.
That is awesome!
LOVE this!! So simple yet such a big, visual concept!
Love the idea of a rule review/ redo now that we are a learning family. I wonder how that would look differently now. Hmmm.... Wheels spinning!
Love this: "Be Your Higher Self." Have to agree with Deb above. Revisiting is a great idea. Thanks, Betsy.
Cathy
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