We utilized the bulk of the morning for Project Cornerstone! Today's Cornerstone Lesson focused on helping students feel empowered and in control of their responses to hurtful teases and put-downs. Students learn 5 techniques to allow them to swim free from teases and put-downs!
We saw this clip first:
And after answered this question: What was the point of this story?
We then had a read-aloud and listened to the story Simon's Hook:
We Discussed, in depth, the 5 strategies when we are in a situation where there is teasing or put-downs that are being said:
And then we got into collaborative groups and made skits for each of these strategies!
And then we followed with a quick activity after:
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| Using the laugh and make a joke strategy! |
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| Using the stay away strategy! |
During math today, we compared fractions by reasoning about their size using fraction strips!
I had to hone in on this particular problem because E-8 has never seen anything like it, and so I used visuals to explain:
You might have noticed the R.C.D.W on top of classwork. It's a strategy for word problems and it means: Read, Close-Read, Draw, Write. This strategy is an off-shoot of this strategy:
Near the end of the day we had a rip-roaring good time for PE!
Cheers y'all!
