Learn Together Poster

15 May 2023

Encourage your students to work collaboratively in the classroom with:

a mini class discussion and construction of an anchor chart
a shared reading of a book with teamwork as the theme (and explore the theme)
reminding students daily - perhaps a classroom poster that you can refer to often, displayed somewhere at student eye level

I added a We learn together poster to the big bundle for you!

Use the blackline version as a coloring page or to have student work included in your poster.

Two color options are included - brights and neutrals.

If you're encouraging cooperation and teamwork in your classroom community, involve those skills in your math warm ups this week!

Pause and encourage your students:

it's wonderful to see you working and learning together
we can learn from one another
it's great to see you waiting your turn and letting your friends enjoy their learning too

have a small group at the guided math table
give each student a small collection of counters
start a color pattern - e.g. green-blue-yellow
students take turns to put the next counter down in the pattern
keep growing the pattern together as a group
challenge: have students put the next whole repeating-section down on their turn (in this example, they would put down 3 counters g-b-y)

a traditional game of dominos is a wonderful collaborative game - encourage instant recognition of the standard dot patterns
challenge: ask students to tell you the total of their domino
challenge: ask students to compare the total of the domino they are placing down with the one that came before - is it bigger, smaller or the same?

ask the students in your group to complete a puzzle together collaboratively
students take turns to put one piece down
here is one I would like to share with you - they roll, match a pattern block and find a place for it on the mat

I hope you love the new poster and these math warm up ideas!