October has been another busy month for us.
We watch our mentor video at the first of the month. We watched several other video showing Fair Play, including the Jack Sock video (tennis) the Softball video from Oregon, the Brownlee brothers in the Triathlon and Special Olympics race that is a commercial.
My 5th graders made posters showing what Fair play is and what is not. We had some some good discussion on the word FAIR. When I showed them the picture that shows "what is equal is not always fair" one of the students actually said out loud "Mind Blown". They had this idea that fair always meant equal. We had a great discussion about this. THEN we tried to meet the challenge given to us by our mentors #MerylDavis and #CharlieWhite. We were challenged to make skits showing fair play. This did not go smoothly. After three groups tried to present their skits, I stopped and regrouped the students. We decided to keep learning about fair play for the rest of the month and then maybe attempt the skits again at the end of the month.
We have been doing lots of mini lessons on fair play, and I have been intentionally pointing out things in the classroom, outside, and in our Novel study. We talk about what part of Fair Play we saw during the day (respect, integrity, inclusion, sportsmanship, honesty). This week we are creating a "bingo board" of things we could do at home or at school that are Fair play. We are going to share all our ideas and create a large bingo board with 20 different acts of Fair Play. Then over the next few weeks see if we can get a bingo or several bingo's by showing Fair Play.
The students started talking about teaching other students in the school about Fair Play and how could spread the word around school. They wanted to challenge themselves to spread the word at school- we are still planning ideas for this, but the kids are excited, thinking that they CAN do this and make a difference in our school. (We might share our bingo board with other classes? do mini presentations in other classes? )
We are excited to continue our learning with FAIR PLAY
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