Inclusive Schools Week - Planned Activities

The following are our plans to recognize and celebrate Inclusion Week, which is December 3 - 7.  Each homeroom will complete a Kaleidoscope of Friends by November 27th.  Karen Sager will have examples in the teacher workrooms and materials will be placed in your boxes.  Each teacher should color one for their homeroom and put the faces of their students on the kaleidoscope.  Please do not include any student names on the kaleidoscope.   Karen will make a banner from all of the kaleidoscopes so it is important that they be turned in on or before the deadline.

In support of inclusion, during the week of December 3-6, we will issue several daily challenges during morning announcements, which are included below (so you have them in advance).

Day 1: Explain what Inclusion week means and what we will focus on this week issue the first challenge of learning to say good morning in Spanish with an example end announcement with: INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY HAPPENS HERE— TOGETHER WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE 

Day 2: Sit by someone different today in lunch than you normally do (within your class) and find out one thing that they like to do

Day 3: Take “5” in your classrooms to discuss a time when you might not have felt included: how did that make you feel, have you made someone feel not included, how to correct that

Day 4: Give students a post it note for them to write a compliment about another student and give it to them;  they can give one to a different student each day;  they can hang them up in the classroom with that students name on it

Day 5: Learn how to say Good Morning in sign language

Sometime during the week, each class is expected to check out a book about diversity/inclusion from the library to read during read aloud time.  A display will be set up in the library highlighting all of the books on diversity/inclusion.

We will complete a self-assessment on Monday afternoon, November 19th regarding our level of understanding about inclusion.   

Thank you in advance for supporting and celebrating Inclusive Schools Week at Paine.