Class Meeting

Every day after recess each class at Southeast school gets together for class meeting. This is a special time in the building. It's a time when classroom community is built and social skills are developed. In class meeting we participate in greeting, sharing, and an activity. During our greetings we take the time to say hello to each other in different fun ways. This week we worked on handshakes. Ask your first grader to shake your hand. You'll want to hire them! You could also ask them to show you the rainbow wave or pinky shake. When we share we practice speaking and listening, and we get to know our classmates. Every Friday at Southeast during the sharing portion of class meeting we focus on gratitude throughout the school. Every student and teacher shares something that they are grateful for. Our class has focused on people and places that we are thankful for so far. Finally, we have an activity. The activities are simply things that we can do as a whole class. For example, today we went around the circle and clapped the syllables in our names for our activity. Ask your first grader to teach you Aroostasha if you want a laugh (they might need a reminder that the sequence is thumbs up, knees together, toes in, bottoms out, tongues out). Class meetings help us start every afternoon on a positive note.