Welcome to Grade 7!

Mrs. Bencharski will come here for E.L.A.

10 minute break

You go to the gym for Phys. Ed. with Mr. Carter (with grade 8’s)

Lunch

What to expect on the first day…

I will come here for Math:

Go over some of the classroom procedures Practice fire drill procedure Create a list of classroom expectations

Ms. Campbell will come here for Science School Assembly

Creating Safe and Caring Learning

CommunitiesGrade 7

Whitemouth School

Everyone is unique and has a contribution to make.

Everyone has strengths which must be nurtured and supported.

Everyone has the right to be respected and the responsibility to respect others.

Guiding Principles

Interact with others

Go about our daily activities

Make decisions

Communicate

Care for our environment

Respectful Classroom Agreements are ways in which we…

Having respectful classroom agreements are necessary in order to…

create a respectful classroom where everyone feels safe, accepted and appreciated.

Why have classroom agreements?

Responsibility Honesty Integrity Empathy Fairness Initiative

Perseverance Courage

Optimism

Respect for self (your character) is developed through the demonstration of:

1. Jot down all the ways you can think of to keep our classroom an ideal place for learning

Consider how it will look, sound, feel…

Creating Classroom Respect Agreements

2. Share ideas with your group by jotting them down in one corner of the placemat template provided.

Leave the centre area blank for now.

3. Determine 3 or 4 common ideas written in the corners

One person records these common ideas in the center

4. Person having the next birthday in the group collects the supplies for the next step

In large printing, recopy the ideas from the centre area on the placemat on to the sticky notes provided

ONE IDEA PER STICKY NOTE SHEET

Place sticky notes on the board up front

5. Sort out suggestions under common headings

6. Put agreements in P.A.W.S. language

Present-tense Affirmative We statements Short statements