Fair Play with Room 27!

Discussing Fair Play During Our Morning Meetings: 

Watching Lex Gillette's new videos and discussing our monthly Classroom Champions topic has become a favorite way for students to start the day.  They really enjoyed the variety examples of videos we viewed that demonstrated athletes having good sportsmanship and "playing fairly."

Appreciating Fair Play:

Every Friday classmates participate in an appreciation circle, bringing our week to a close with a reflection and appreciation for others who have made their school-week better in some way.  This month students were encouraged to reflect on how others' fair play effected them.  Students had great appreciations to share - especially about how they were including each other in games on the playground!

Playworks: 

This is the first month my students were able to participate in Playworks Class Game Time.  Students quickly made the connections between the fair play discussions we've been having in class and the skills that are re-enforced by Coach Jake.

Meeting Lex Gillette: 

The absolute highlight of this month was meeting Lex Gillette and Steve Mesler!  They answered questions and prompted us to re-visit our goal setting from September, as well as to think about how we can demonstrate fair play at school.  Meeting these two Olympians was an amazing experience the students are still talking about.

Our Skit:

Our project this month was to have students work in groups to develop a skit that demonstrated fair play.  After scripts were done, one was chosen to record out on the playground.  Here is the first (and unedited) version!

Fair Play in Grade 2S at PPS

Fair Play is such an important part of life, whether it's at home, in the classroom, or on the playground, After watching +Justin Snith and +Tristan Walker's video, the children realized that respect is a huge part of  fair play. The children used their background knowledge to brainstorm examples and non-examples of fair play.

We read mentor texts Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns About Sportsmanship by Howard Binkow and I've Won, No I've Won, No I've Won by Lauren Child. The students really enjoyed these books and were able to relate situations in the text to examples in their own life. I then read several stories from Brad Herzog's Inspiring Stories of Sportsmanship. One that really impacted my students was the story of  Sara Tucholsky, the softball player that hit the only home run of her career, but was unable to run the bases after hurting herself at first base. The opposition then carried her around the bases, knowing that this meant a loss for them. We then watched the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttkBP2XDZvE, What an amazing display of sportsmanship!

Keeping with my baseball theme, the children wrote what fair play meant to them, as well as an example of a time that they showed fair play.

The children are now working on skits about fair play as a culminating activity. The children are acting out different scenarios, with the children first showing how children might react when they aren't showing fair play, followed by how the scenario might play out when fair play is demonstrated. These skits will be posted soon!

Fair Play Wrap Up

The Grade 5's have been working so hard this week to finish our fair play projects. We started this week by reviewing what fair is because we had a whole week out of the school and a whole week not speaking English! Then we created fair play "rules."

After we had some specific rules to work from we created story boards of people showing our fair play rules.

We then voted on our favourites. I gave each student a sticker for each "Rule" and they voted on which drawing best showed that rule. 

Next we split into groups and used our favourite story board pictures to create tableaus about fair play!

I then printed out the images on paper and we started creating posters to teach others about fair play.

And here is the finished product!

Thanks so much Jesse! We had a blast with Fair Play and a ready for community in T minus 2 days and counting!!

Grade 5 - Akulivik

Fair Play in Kindergarten

This month has been amazing learning about fair play and integrating it into our class.  I posted a video of the students playing some games in PE class.  Students had to catch and throw a ball to each other with a scoop catcher, play tic-tac-toe with buckets in hula hoops, scooter boards around the cones and roll a ball to knock down bowling pins.  They worked together in teams to complete the tasks.  The scoop and catch game was really hard.  I loved how creative they were figuring out rules for themselves that each person playing could agree to that made them be successful with the game.  The student that was using the ball to knock down pins was tricky as well.  There was a person behind the pins to stand them back up and get the ball after the ball was rolled.  This person could have knocked down the pins themselves, but had to not cheat for their friend and them them knock down the pins fairly.  Tic-tac-toe was also a game students had to concentrate on to play fairly.  They worked in pairs to put the bean bags in buckets to make three in a row.  I asked the students when they were done what they think would have happened if there were no rules to the games and students didn't play fair or share.  They all said it would be no fun at all and that the rules help make it fair for everyone.

We read a book called Let's Play Soccer.  Although the book is geared to the concepts of how to play soccer, it still shares why playing fair, sharing the ball among players and following the rules make the game more enjoyable.  We talked about how we could take these ideas and transfer to other games we play at school, such as tag.  Students recognized that this is a much better idea to play fair.

Weekend with Wendel is another great book about fair play, sharing and listening to what others preferences or interests are.  We discussed how fair play can be as simple as asking someone a friend, "What would you like to play?"  Kindergartners can often get caught up in themselves so this was a great lesson in finding out what others might enjoy to do.  This story is about a mouse that stays with a friend for the weekend and the visitor does everything they want, but doesn't ask his friend what she might want.  In the end, she does something back to him that could have turned out messy, but ended up making the two be friends and wanting to play more.   

Thanks to Teachers Pay Teachers, I found some ideas that were very helpful in teaching fair play to my students.  I found the Fair Play Promise.  It is perfect for students to read and remember when playing a game outside, inside, toys, sharing books, or anything else that students have to work together to do.  It ends reminding students to say good game to your friend.

I found a song, although I don't sing, about fair play.  It talks about student situations of using fair play such as running outside to be first and how that might not be fair.  Dad reminds them to be fair is to share.  Sharing makes more friends and makes things happier.  

I have a poster called "Be a good sport".  It says be a good listener and follow directions, playing fair means everyone gets the same chance, be happy sharing, try hard every time, play safe and cheer for all.  It seems like a great, simple reference for students to remember what fair play looks like.  

I also have a power point about fairness.  It is an interactive activity with the class where students play a game in two teams and experience what it is like to have one team win unfairly, then experience an activity where it would be easy to cheat and how students have to play fairly to be successful for the benefit of the whole class.  I saw students really engaged in this and really understanding how fair play is important in so  many areas of their lives at school and home.  

I asked the students to look for examples of fair play at recess one specific day. They have been reporting fair play nearly every day since then, which I love hearing about.   Some things they shared are: sharing the recess equipment like the balls and jump ropes, taking turns on the slide, helping a student balance when their shoe fell off while another student went to retrieve the shoe, helping a friend when they fell down, listening to directions of a teacher and playing with new friends then the regular ones they play with.  I know there are more things students did, and continue to do.  I love seeing the students after the fair play lessons and how they begin to use the language with their friends and throughout the day.

The challenge Kerry shared with us was to role play acts of fair play.  I didn't video tape much, just one, which I will post.  The ideas students came up with was cute.  Some students demonstrated sharing in the play kitchen, sharing math tools, showing another student how to put a puzzle together, hugs and good friends, pretend hitting another student and solving that problem, and getting along with someone you don't normally play with.  This has been so great to see the students getting along with other students out of their preferred friendship circles.  

As usual, I love the changes in my classroom after teaching the fair play month lessons.  I am super happy to have this topic in October.  It was great to get the year going and then work on this.  I think it will be a better year having this as a early in the year topic to rely on all year.  It is a common language that all the students have now.  I look forward to seeing how we grow as a community throughout the year with fair play strong in the way we get along with others. 

Fair Play in Kindergarten

This month has been amazing learning about fair play and integrating it into our class.  I posted a video of the students playing some games in PE class.  Students had to catch and throw a ball to each other with a scoop catcher, play tic-tac-toe with buckets in hula hoops, scooter boards around the cones and roll a ball to knock down bowling pins.  They worked together in teams to complete the tasks.  The scoop and catch game was really hard.  I loved how creative they were figuring out rules for themselves that each person playing could agree to that made them be successful with the game.  The student that was using the ball to knock down pins was tricky as well.  There was a person behind the pins to stand them back up and get the ball after the ball was rolled.  This person could have knocked down the pins themselves, but had to not cheat for their friend and them them knock down the pins fairly.  Tic-tac-toe was also a game students had to concentrate on to play fairly.  They worked in pairs to put the bean bags in buckets to make three in a row.  I asked the students when they were done what they think would have happened if there were no rules to the games and students didn't play fair or share.  They all said it would be no fun at all and that the rules help make it fair for everyone.

We read a book called Let's Play Soccer.  Although the book is geared to the concepts of how to play soccer, it still shares why playing fair, sharing the ball among players and following the rules make the game more enjoyable.  We talked about how we could take these ideas and transfer to other games we play at school, such as tag.  Students recognized that this is a much better idea to play fair.

Weekend with Wendel is another great book about fair play, sharing and listening to what others preferences or interests are.  We discussed how fair play can be as simple as asking someone a friend, "What would you like to play?"  Kindergartners can often get caught up in themselves so this was a great lesson in finding out what others might enjoy to do.  This story is about a mouse that stays with a friend for the weekend and the visitor does everything they want, but doesn't ask his friend what she might want.  In the end, she does something back to him that could have turned out messy, but ended up making the two be friends and wanting to play more.   

Thanks to Teachers Pay Teachers, I found some ideas that were very helpful in teaching fair play to my students.  I found the Fair Play Promise.  It is perfect for students to read and remember when playing a game outside, inside, toys, sharing books, or anything else that students have to work together to do.  It ends reminding students to say good game to your friend.

I found a song, although I don't sing, about fair play.  It talks about student situations of using fair play such as running outside to be first and how that might not be fair.  Dad reminds them to be fair is to share.  Sharing makes more friends and makes things happier.  

I have a poster called "Be a good sport".  It says be a good listener and follow directions, playing fair means everyone gets the same chance, be happy sharing, try hard every time, play safe and cheer for all.  It seems like a great, simple reference for students to remember what fair play looks like.  

I also have a power point about fairness.  It is an interactive activity with the class where students play a game in two teams and experience what it is like to have one team win unfairly, then experience an activity where it would be easy to cheat and how students have to play fairly to be successful for the benefit of the whole class.  I saw students really engaged in this and really understanding how fair play is important in so  many areas of their lives at school and home.  

I asked the students to look for examples of fair play at recess one specific day. They have been reporting fair play nearly every day since then, which I love hearing about.   Some things they shared are: sharing the recess equipment like the balls and jump ropes, taking turns on the slide, helping a student balance when their shoe fell off while another student went to retrieve the shoe, helping a friend when they fell down, listening to directions of a teacher and playing with new friends then the regular ones they play with.  I know there are more things students did, and continue to do.  I love seeing the students after the fair play lessons and how they begin to use the language with their friends and throughout the day.

The challenge Kerry shared with us was to role play acts of fair play.  I didn't video tape much, just one, which I will post.  The ideas students came up with was cute.  Some students demonstrated sharing in the play kitchen, sharing math tools, showing another student how to put a puzzle together, hugs and good friends, pretend hitting another student and solving that problem, and getting along with someone you don't normally play with.  This has been so great to see the students getting along with other students out of their preferred friendship circles.  

As usual, I love the changes in my classroom after teaching the fair play month lessons.  I am super happy to have this topic in October.  It was great to get the year going and then work on this.  I think it will be a better year having this as a early in the year topic to rely on all year.  It is a common language that all the students have now.  I look forward to seeing how we grow as a community throughout the year with fair play strong in the way we get along with others. 

Fair Play in Kindergarten

This month has been amazing learning about fair play and integrating it into our class.  I posted a video of the students playing some games in PE class.  Students had to catch and throw a ball to each other with a scoop catcher, play tic-tac-toe with buckets in hula hoops, scooter boards around the cones and roll a ball to knock down bowling pins.  They worked together in teams to complete the tasks.  The scoop and catch game was really hard.  I loved how creative they were figuring out rules for themselves that each person playing could agree to that made them be successful with the game.  The student that was using the ball to knock down pins was tricky as well.  There was a person behind the pins to stand them back up and get the ball after the ball was rolled.  This person could have knocked down the pins themselves, but had to not cheat for their friend and them them knock down the pins fairly.  Tic-tac-toe was also a game students had to concentrate on to play fairly.  They worked in pairs to put the bean bags in buckets to make three in a row.  I asked the students when they were done what they think would have happened if there were no rules to the games and students didn't play fair or share.  They all said it would be no fun at all and that the rules help make it fair for everyone.

We read a book called Let's Play Soccer.  Although the book is geared to the concepts of how to play soccer, it still shares why playing fair, sharing the ball among players and following the rules make the game more enjoyable.  We talked about how we could take these ideas and transfer to other games we play at school, such as tag.  Students recognized that this is a much better idea to play fair.

Weekend with Wendel is another great book about fair play, sharing and listening to what others preferences or interests are.  We discussed how fair play can be as simple as asking someone a friend, "What would you like to play?"  Kindergartners can often get caught up in themselves so this was a great lesson in finding out what others might enjoy to do.  This story is about a mouse that stays with a friend for the weekend and the visitor does everything they want, but doesn't ask his friend what she might want.  In the end, she does something back to him that could have turned out messy, but ended up making the two be friends and wanting to play more.   

Thanks to Teachers Pay Teachers, I found some ideas that were very helpful in teaching fair play to my students.  I found the Fair Play Promise.  It is perfect for students to read and remember when playing a game outside, inside, toys, sharing books, or anything else that students have to work together to do.  It ends reminding students to say good game to your friend.

I found a song, although I don't sing, about fair play.  It talks about student situations of using fair play such as running outside to be first and how that might not be fair.  Dad reminds them to be fair is to share.  Sharing makes more friends and makes things happier.  

I have a poster called "Be a good sport".  It says be a good listener and follow directions, playing fair means everyone gets the same chance, be happy sharing, try hard every time, play safe and cheer for all.  It seems like a great, simple reference for students to remember what fair play looks like.  

I also have a power point about fairness.  It is an interactive activity with the class where students play a game in two teams and experience what it is like to have one team win unfairly, then experience an activity where it would be easy to cheat and how students have to play fairly to be successful for the benefit of the whole class.  I saw students really engaged in this and really understanding how fair play is important in so  many areas of their lives at school and home.  

I asked the students to look for examples of fair play at recess one specific day. They have been reporting fair play nearly every day since then, which I love hearing about.   Some things they shared are: sharing the recess equipment like the balls and jump ropes, taking turns on the slide, helping a student balance when their shoe fell off while another student went to retrieve the shoe, helping a friend when they fell down, listening to directions of a teacher and playing with new friends then the regular ones they play with.  I know there are more things students did, and continue to do.  I love seeing the students after the fair play lessons and how they begin to use the language with their friends and throughout the day.

The challenge Kerry shared with us was to role play acts of fair play.  I didn't video tape much, just one, which I will post.  The ideas students came up with was cute.  Some students demonstrated sharing in the play kitchen, sharing math tools, showing another student how to put a puzzle together, hugs and good friends, pretend hitting another student and solving that problem, and getting along with someone you don't normally play with.  This has been so great to see the students getting along with other students out of their preferred friendship circles.  

As usual, I love the changes in my classroom after teaching the fair play month lessons.  I am super happy to have this topic in October.  It was great to get the year going and then work on this.  I think it will be a better year having this as a early in the year topic to rely on all year.  It is a common language that all the students have now.  I look forward to seeing how we grow as a community throughout the year with fair play strong in the way we get along with others. 

October Update Jamestown 6th Grade

Jamestown students were very excited to get another video message from Clark. This time he challenged us to be on the lookout for Fair Play. We struggled a bit with this one, I'm not sure if it's because they're so involved with what they're doing that they forget to share the Fair Play they're seeing or there is no Fair Play to see, which would be very sad. 

I have enlisted all of our activity teachers to help with the Fair Play lessons. As we have learned, Fair Play is not just in sports. Our music, art, media, and P.E. teachers have agreed to help with finding Fair Play in all we do.