We are slowly learning responsibility for ourselves, the members of our classroom and school community, and for the the physical objects that make up our world through direct instruction with Mme Beth, encouragement to think about the golden rule when interacting with our classmates and adults, opportunities to grow through everyday opportunities and through taking on specific responsibilities for different parts of our day. These may change throughout the year as our French vocabulary grows and ability to take on more complicated tasks increases.
Currently, I have chosen jobs for each student that will both help develop basic vocabulary either directly acting out the job, the information required to carry out job (forming questions, etc), using number sense in real life, everyday situations, etc. We will change jobs weekly. These jobs, while simple, serve us well in many ways. They are (top left to right):
1. Chef de la porte - making sure the classroom door is closed and begin to pay attention to noise level in hallway and decide when it should be closed or left open
2. La lumière - making sure lights are on and off at appropriate times, thinking of energy conservation, appropriate amount of light for work, etc.
3. Le recyclage - monitors appropriate items for recycling and empties at end of day
4. Le goûter - not only passes out utensils and snacks, but has practiced beforehand to help guide classmates in how to ask for potentially new items on our snack 'menu'
5. Compteur - is in charge of counting all students whenever going somewhere to make sure all who should be are present. This will include math concepts not only of counting and and cardinality, but later concepts in addition/subtraction, place value to ten "nous sommes 22 avec M. Thomas et Mme Roxanne...il y a combien groupes de dix (combien de dizaines? Combien d'unités?)?" We are 22...how many groups of ten can we make? Ones? Even Algebra - if we're 18 in line in line now and there are 20 in class, how many more students do we need to make 20 (18 + x = 20)?
6. Le concierge - is in charge of holding the door as we go outside. We practice using "la politesse" or our polite words and phrases to this helper
7. La balle/le ballon
8. Uniforme - is in charge of making sure we're all in uniform before leaving the class, reinforcing vocabulary around clothing, colors, positional words (prepositions) "mettez vos t-shirts dans les pantalons, s'il te plaît" Please tuck your shirts IN your pants, etc.
9. Numéro de jours à l'école - (counting the number of days at school to 100) this students job has endless mathematical applications
10. L'emploi du temps - is responsible to keep us on track with our schedule using moveable arrow - will later include reading the schedule and morning message.
11. Chef du gel - either helps keep time to make sure we're washing our hands for at least 30 seconds as we sing ABCs (in French) or giving hand sanitizer in a pinch.
12. Météo - is in charge of leading our weather song and helping count and chart our weather during two week periods.
13. Les pansements - is in charge of carrying and keeping an eye out for any scrapes on playground and then getting teacher.
14. Le calendrier - one of the most math intensive jobs
15. L'aquarium - to help feed classroom fish and let adult know any observations during the day
16. Courrier - charged with running errands to office with hope of interacting with another French speaker during exchange.
17. Les plantes - waters and observes plants well-being. Uses daily journal to record daily observations
18. Les lingettes - charged with making sure we are respecting our classroom and keeping clean. A frequent duty will be to pass out wet wipes for hands and wipes for surfaces.
Two of the jobs require more than one person each week. We are also respectful of one family member who would prefer no photos, but will still have a job each week!
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