Fair Play and the Creative Process

October 3-7

We started our first lesson on fair play with a Shout it out! session, where the students type what they know about fair play on their iPads and send it to the Smartboard screen for display.  This was a great way to begin the conversation about what fair play means to them.

We accessed prior knowledge by using the strategy Think of a Time 1, 2, 3… to connect their own experiences with fair play with new learning about the topic.

Once we had shared our experiences, students were inspired by +JesseCockney’s Video Challenge to reflect on fair play in gym class and act on it.  It has been a great segue to talking about how following the rules, encouraging others, and acting with integrity can make gym class better for everyone.

We finished the lesson using a Frayer Model to define Fair Play.

  

October 11-21

In our second lesson, we watched Monique Sullivan’s video on fair play to gain another perspective on the topic.  Students used the International Fair Play Organization – Values of Fair Play website to learn more about the values of Fair Play.

They chose three of these values to include in their Fair Play group projects to teach Fair Play to younger students.  Each group were allowed to decide on the format of their project.   Choices included comic strips, posters, videos, stop motion animation,  and ebooks.  Students created a Google Document and shared it with the other people in their group so that they could work collaboratively on their plan.  Once they had a plan, they started to work on their project.  We are hoping to finish these projects this week so that we can share them with the rest of the school.

 

•    Integrity
•    Honesty
•    Follow the Rules
•    Equal Opportunity
•    Including Others
•    Helping Others
•    Respect
•    Good Attitude
•    Encourage Others

October 24-28

We were fortunate to have a week with +RikLeaf as he guided us through the songwriting process, incorporating some ideas about fair play.  Here is the song that they wrote in collaboration with Rik.  Students were excited to practice and perform the song at an assembly on Friday afternoon.

Chorus:

Growing, Achieving Together we’re believing

When we all get together

We’re better than we’ve ever been alone

Listen to our song and you can sing along.

No one has fun without fair play

If you don’t what it is

We got something to say

Just the other day on the playground

In a race, someone hit the ground

So I stopped, picked them up,

and said “Turn that frown upside down.”

There was a time in a basketball game

Fouled someone, I was to blame

Could have got away with it, but I didn’t

Put my hand up and said, “Oh ya, I did it!”

October 31-November 4

This week we will reflect on our own demonstration of fair play in gym, the playground, and outside of school by completing a Fair Play Self-Assessment.