Students work on creating their classroom Behavioral Expectations. Division 13, a grade 5 class works in cooperative teams to come up with lists of expectations for the classroom. These expectations are generated by the students and become the "Class Agreement" for behaviors.
At Rogers, our belief is, "We care about ourselves, each other and this place."
Staff at Rogers have been employing the 5 to 1 ratio, for every one corrective statement made, five statements of affirmation are made.
The Student Lunch Monitors at Rogers met in January to develop a clear set of lunch time (in class 20 minutes eating time) expectations for students when they are eating lunch in their classrooms.
Sometimes we get snow here in Victoria! This snow is wonderful! Most of your children love it!
On Friday, October 29th all of the students at Rogers took part in a Gallery Walk. They had the pleasure of walking through or outside of every classroom to see the work that each class had done to demonstrate their committment to the Rogers Belief, "We care about ourselves, each other and this place". Every class spent about 2 minutes in each room, for a total of approximately 32 minutes on the Gallery Walk. Students did a reflection summary of everything that they saw on their tour. What a wonderful way to share the learning and build school community!
Division 3 has photo collages to show themselves demonstrating that they care about ourselves, each other and this place. Beautiful work!
Division 10 created a matrix about the lunch expectations of Rogers, showing how they care about themselves, each other and this place at lunch. Very nice work!
Division 12 created a bulletin board with a variety of ways to show that the care at Rogers!
Division 2 has many photos on their bulletin board of the students showing the behavioral expectations in the hallways, classroom and playground. Kindergarten is where all of the school routine development begins! Excellent work class!
Division 15 created brainstorming webs to list various ways that they show they care about ourselves, each other and this place.
Division 16 created posters to show how they care about themselves each other and this place on the playground at Rogers!
Division 13's bulletin board is made of scripts describing the way students show they care about themselves, each other and this place in the classroom.
Division 8 is showing the formation of our CARE gestures for, "We care about ourselves, each other and this place."
On Friday, October 29th at 11:00 am, all of the classes at Rogers will take part in viewing each others' Belief work in a Gallery Walk format. Some classes have created books, others have Bulletin Boards and other have made class quilts to demonstrate our belief, "We care about ourselves, each other and this place". Classes will walk around to each class to view the work. We are celebrating the hard work that has been done on creating and messaging our school wide belief and our behavioral expectations.
Division 7's grade twos have created a quilt of caring to show how they care about themselves, each other and this place.
Division 5's grade one class has written ways that they will show that they care about themselves each other and this place in their classroom. They have posted their ideas and drawings on a bulletin board outside of their classroom! Good work!
Here is the kindergarten class, Mrs. Shortt's Division One's who are buddies with Mrs. Gauk's Grade Two class! Working together has so many benefits and joys! Have a look at the Bulletin Board when you stop by room 14!
Mrs. Gauk's grade 2 class is proud to show how they care about the buddy class, Division One Kindergarten, that they work with every week. See their bulletin board outside room 14.
Students are learning about the Rogers School Belief with a focus on our school expectations. As well, another message at Rogers is, "Rogers is a BULLY-FREE zone". The grade three classes had a lesson on Friday where the goal of the lesson was, "To know the difference between the bully, the bullied and the bystander." Each grade three class came up with a brainstorm web of ideas to help with the descriptions of each. Our aim is to provide the students with the knowledge that help equip them to be better informed about bullying.
Our students have been working on six explicit behavioural expectations during assemblies to show that they care about themselves, each other and this place. Today, we practiced standing tall as we faced the Canadian flag to sing O Canada.
