Teaching Grace and Courtesy in the Classroom

This blog is for parents, teachers and students in Early Childhood Classroom to help them understand the Grace and Courtesy we encourage within our classroom community.

Our classroom is a safe environment where students can learn not only the basic skills needed to prepare them in school, but also life-long skills that will prepare them in society. These skills are not presented as a demanding, forceful action that the student is made to do, but something that is modeled by the teacher just as a lesson in math might be. These Grace and Courtesy skills are lessons that are given throughout the year starting on the very first day of school and continuing and yes sometimes repeated as needed. A list and understanding of these skills is included here, but is not limited to what might need to be taught in a classroom of students with ever changing needs. 

The teachers in our classroom want our students to be a classroom full of individuals who respect and embrace each other and our differences, so we also will be continuously learning about each other and the different cultural backgrounds that we form as a classroom community. We believe that learning about each other will help us to appreciate the differences. We ask parents, grandparents, relatives and friends to help us in this endeavor by sharing your child’s background with books, pictures, food and stories.

Please comment below and let me know if you have any other ideas that would help our classroom throughout the year become the community of learners we all want them to be. All helpful suggestions will be considered, including those your child might like to add.