Class constitution

5th Grade NYS Learning Standard CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC LIFE: Constitutions, rules, and laws are developed in democratic societies in order to maintain order, provide security, and protect individual rights. This is an example of a "classroom constitution" made together as a class. It allows your students to become more comfortable as a learning community. Also students are more inclined to follow and not break their own rules rather than rules that the teacher sets.

At the beginning of the year the students and teacher can make rules that they will follow in the classroom. When a problem does occur the teacher can remind them of the promises they made. It will want to be placed in the classroom where everyone can see it all year. Signing the constitution would make this more personal and should help them understand that following the rules is important. 2713

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For constitution day, we read We The Kids and watched Charlie Brown’s The Birth of The Constitution. We wrote our own preamble for our class based upon the book. I was very impressed with what they came

Second Graders Create a Classroom Constitution after learning about Constitution Day

Just wanted to share a couple GREAT ideas! On Constitution Day we learned about the Constitution, wrote our own (as a class), signed it, and made little self portraits to display by it. Turned out pretty cool! I believe physical activity is so important for kids. Research provides a very strong link between physical activity and positive academic performance... (if you want to know more about that, I actually wrote my thesis on it last year and condensed all the most interesting parts into a…

Class Constitution: Something you can set up with class at the first of the year, or if you are in 5th grade talking about the american constitution. Great way to have kids realize what things are most important when it comes to a community

1-2-3 Come Do Some Constitution Day Activities With Me With a federal mandate that any schools accepting federal funds, need to do some educational activity associated with the Constitution, on September 17th, I wanted to think up something that my Y5’s could easily understand. With everything else that teachers have to cover, I also wanted what we did to be something simple and especially relevant to them. This packet does exactly that, because I've tied it into classroom management: jobs…