In discussing the necessities of a habitat for an animal, I posed the following question to the class, "What are the necessities that people require? Are food, water, shelter and space enough for us?"
Our Friday class meeting ran late, and there was an issue I could not get to in our problem basket. A student had written that someone was judging her and making fun of her for the way she looked. After school, I spoke to her to let her know that I did see her problem in the basket and that we would discuss it first thing in the following week's class meeting, and checked in to make sure she was okay until then.
"We started our time together as a class this year by reading