CSR
Habits of Mind
Play
a variation of “20 Questions.”
If
you have not yet discussed the meaning of RAK with your class, try this.
Otherwise any “20 Questions” type game will work. i.e.
Entertain kids questions until they realize they are playing “20 questions” to
learn February’s thinking behavior. As a teaser - tape a bag of candy to the
board and reward the best questioners with the candy.
RAK/HOM
lesson:
Day
1: Hand out RAK treats, (I added pencils and glue sticks to the candy. I also
chose 3 names to earn a free book order pick and
credited RAK.) being sure kids know they are (from)
RAK. Do not reveal what RAK stands for. Later that day have kids fill out a
form (example A) stating something positive about each of their classmates.
Write PNK on the board to remind them to write Positive, Nice, and Kind words.(Compile
all comments onto a separate and single sheet for each student.)
Day
2: Write “RAK” on the board. Stand quietly at the front of the room. Keep a
tally of questions and “what if’s” asked/posed by students on the board.
(Responses are something like: Yes, No, Maybe, I can’t say, etc.) During
student questioning, randomly hand out positive comment papers to students one
at a time. See if student questioning can self-direct itself to coming close to
what RAK stands for. (i.e. - You may want to get them to the point of saying
“what if…” and using a thesaurus to find the word “Random.”)
At
any point during the questioning, you could stop the “game” and help kids
identify that they arrived at the answer or at least moved toward getting an
answer by asking questions.
You
may also want to point out that they applied past knowledge to connect the RAK
treats to the kindness of the comment papers.
FOSS
works well for kids to develop “what if…” questions.