We found a school to write to for pen pals!! Very exciting! I will post more information on this very soon!
The drafts (best copy) is due to me Friday March 13 2015. I will correct them during March Break and we will write the good copy to send to the school the week we are back.
As I started to explain that there might not be an equal amount of boys and girls in the other class so they might write to someone of the opposite sex, we got into a discussion on gender. We started talking about how it was ok for boys to like pink and purple and girls can do whatever sports they want.
The students shared amazing stories and comments!
We also got into the subject of bullying and cyber bullying, although it wasn’t what I had planned for that class it was such a valuable lesson!! We explained how if there’s a problem and someone is bullying you, you should ask for help.
Also if someone asks you for help you should try to help them and if you can’t help them or don’t know what to do then you should tell them to talk to someone about it like a parent or a teacher.
We also went over how it’s not nice to write mean comments online, that it hurts people’s feelings.
If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it.
Conversations like this make my job so valuable and I am so grateful for it!! I will have this conversation with 5-1 as well because it was a very valuable class.
We watched this video:
Mme. Girouard 