KOrganizeOurselves


 * 2008-2009, 2009-2010 **

Art We will ask the questions, "what is a community," "what is one's role in the community," and "how do people work together in a community to meet their needs?" We will discuss the art classroom as a learning community and decide upon the roles and responsibilities of each individual, which effect the entire group and are essential to keeping the room clean, safe, organized, and a positive working environment. While writing our essential agreements, we will categorize each agreement into one of the following transdisciplinary skill categories: social skills, communication skills, and self management skills. We will also discuss ways to resolve conflicts should they arise during the work period and reinforce which attitudes could be used in these situations.

Music Kindergarten music classes will learn the school song, //__Spicewood Stand Together__// which is an example of The many songs that speak to societal decision making, community life, and The world of work. This POI will also be reinforced through use of the Concepts of Cooperation, empathy, tolerance, and respectfulness and how they relate to community life. We will use systematic ways to count the steady beat in music and how counting is used for rhythm patterns

PE To reinforce the concept of community jobs we will discuss how physical education teachers help the community by focusing on health and exercise to have a good life. We will support the primary year program attitudes by teaching the "attitude song" and discuss how these attitudes could make a difference if people in a community would learn and practice them. We will also use "real life" opportunities to reinforce the use of the attitudes in problem-solving situations.

** Spanish ** - 09-10: Students will view the video "Everyday Heroes", which is about how the organization called Heifer International has made a difference in three communities: one in China, one in Rwanda and one in Peru. In each situation a child is interviewed about how H.I.'s donation of an animal has impacted the community. Students will consider the jobs that each of the 3 children in the video have and how these jobs help to meet basic needs of the community and family.  08-09: To go along with the central idea of this POI (People in a community work together in order to meet wants and needs.) we will talk about how we are a learning community in Spanish. We will write our essential agreements and talk about how we have to work together to have a great class each week. We will talk about my responsibilites to them and their responsibilities to me and to each other.

**Library** The students will learn about how we keep the library organized and will discuss what happens when everyone does not help to keep it organized. Using shelf markers and learning the procedures for checking out books is the focus.