Cultivating a classroom of roses

Today we turned in our syllabus-parent-signature sheet as well as our partner interviews (after reading a few of them).

We then read about the Dr. Williams Glasser's description of basic "needs" and completed surveys (on the walls) about what we "need" in the class from each other, from the teacher, and just as a atmosphere in general. We discussed how it was important to respect each other's likes by not getting down on them (because that would be like pulling the petals from a rose) and then we agreed on some classroom rules and policies.

Mrs. Gilbert wrote a letter to everyone about what she wants from the class, and our homework is to write a letter back to her about what we want from this class.

We ended class by reading a couple more interviews and everyone got a rose to take home with them.