DRK.1 Explore examples of promises made through actions and words, and why it is important to keep promises.
So, after brainstorming with a few colleagues, I came up with a few ideas to try. It ended up working well and improved classroom beahviour as a result.
We started by reading A Promise is a Promise by Robert Munch. We discussed the promises that Allashua made and the results. We talked about why it is important to keep promises that you make. We also talked about when it is ok to break a promise (I wanted them to know that if someone made them promise something that made them uncomfortable that they should tell a trusted adult).
After our discussion, we decided to come up with a class promise that we could all commit to. We decided our promise would be
We promise to be respectful to the people in our class.