Teamwork Characteristics

Today in class we explored the characteristics we would like to see when we work in teams. The children thought the idea of 'Love' was funny. However the idea of 'Love' is a love to work hard, a love to learn, a love to share and a love for the work they do.
The children worked in partners and wrote a list of 7 to 10 characteristics they would like to see. After we wrote our list, we shared with one another in the class and made a class list with how many times the characteristic showed up. When Judith and Molly placed this information in Wordle, the words that appeared the most were written in bold and are larger. If they were not popular, the word is written smaller. 
The word that appeared the most in the list was courage.  

Room 3 Class Agreement

The children in Room 3 have begun the year exploring the theme 'Developing a Positive Classroom.' Yesterday we shared our experiences of past classes we have been in, using De Bono's Thinking Hats to collate our thoughts. We have found some creative ways to develop and build a positive classroom in 2011.
The children had many ideas when we developed our Class Agreement. The Room 3 Class Agreement for 2011 is shown above.