Recently, our class concluded a unit on the farm. We also finished reading the book Wonder in which the concept of precepts or rules was a central theme. This week, students reflected and came up with their own precepts with the intention of guiding our work together in class.

Dora: “If there’s something you are afraid of, learn about it and it won’t be scary anymore.”

Oni: “Help and be helped.”

Piper: “Follow the trail and if you don’t get to the right place you’ll be somewhere good.”

Olivia B: “Flow with the wind, you never know where it will take you.”

Cooper: “If life gives you an opportunity, then use it.”

Freddie: “When given a choice of flopping around like an inchworm in the classroom and cleaning up, choose cleaning up.”

Olivia P: “Just don’t count the days and time will go by fast.”

Kate: “When something tough happens you can choose to carry that load with you or you can set that load down and move on.”

Emily: “Remember what you encountered instead of saying I want to go back.”

Johhny: “With great power comes great responsibility.”

Polly: “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

Colette: “Hold your arms out wide and move on.”

Tilda: “Life can be boring unless you make it an adventure.”

Eli: “Don’t try to lift the world by yourself.”

Margaret: “An experience makes emotions and emotions make an experience.”

Lila: “It is better to milk one cow properly than 60 cows improperly.”

Ben: “Explore, but not so far that you do not know where you are!”