Along with our whole school, we use Responsive Classroom methods in our classroom. This means we try to create a classroom community where kids can feel safe, loved and important. We spend a lot of time focusing on the social-emotional learning as well as the acadmic growth of each student so they can be a successful member of our community. Each morning we will have a morning meeting where we will greet each other, have student sharing, do an activity and read our morning message as a class. This is an important time for students to get to know each other and find positive ways to interact with each other. We will also create hopes and dreams for the year and create our classroom rules as a class.