My Classroom, My Learning

This week we utilized a variety of tools as students worked in groups and independently to build our Classroom Constitution. Their goal was to discuss and identify what makes a positive learning environment. 

Their initial work started in groups of 3-5 students using a Google Jamboard with color coded digital stickies to share their ideas. See copies of two examples here. Grade 5 & Grade 6. These examples are not all inclusive but they do provide an overview of what some groups of students identified as being important. You may have noticed that frames 6 & 7 share their ideas to help us teachers and parents to support their learning.

After some time building these informative works of art, students completed a Google Form to self reflect on the ideas so they could share what was most important to them. 

The next step in the process was using their responses to build Word Clouds. This gave us a chance to have fun with a new tech tool while they learned a little bit about graphical representations of word frequency which they will continue to reflect on as they build their constitution. 

Each student was assigned one question. They used the responses for that question to build their word cloud. We used a website called wordcoulds.com. Below are a couple examples from each question. They really had fun exploring this tool and making it their own. 

Students wrapped up these activities with a Flipgrid post to tell me why classroom rules are important. Stay tuned for the big reveal of our Classroom Constitution next week in my post, "Building Classroom Community."