Hopes and Dreams

We have been thinking about and sharing our hopes and dreams for the school year! We read Rose's Garden written by Peter Reynolds. The book was about Rose who wanted to plant seeds and make the the earth beautiful. She ran into a bump, but had help from some friends. Ask your child for details!

Our hopes ranged from being readers to making choices in math stations. They were about making new friends and working with different materials. This is a class of determined dreamers! Do you know what your child's hope was for the year?

From our hopes and dreams we decided we needed to make some rules so we could make sure we could all reach our goals.

At first, the list of rules was a little long...

So we started categorizing our rules by rules that were about us, rules about safety, and rules about our materials.

After we sorted all of our rules, we talked about how we might want to phrase each rule. The class ended up writing and agreeing on five rules. We signed the bottom to show that we agreed to follow the rules in order to make sure our dreams could come true.

We worked in small groups to show what each of our rules would look like, sound like, and feel like in the classroom. Check out our posters! (Click to make them bigger!)