Creating a Class Contract

Today in room 6 we created a class contract.  First, we collaborated on an AnswerGarden (a word cloud app).  We shared our ideas on "What helps you learn?". The answers that were repeated grew larger.  

What helps you learn? Click here to look at the actual AnswerGarden

Next, we added ideas to another answer garden, asking "What DOESN'T help you learn?"  It turns out that our ideas are pretty similar.

What doesn't help you learn? Click here to look at the actual AnswerGarden

After this, we choose the most important ideas from our AnswerGardens and turned them into some class guidelines. We did this in small groups.

Then we had a class discussion of all our ideas.  We added some together and made them perfect! As a way of showing that we agree to our class contract, we each cut out and decorated a puzzle piece.

We will use the class treaty to create a happy and safe classroom.  A classroom where every one can feel a part of.