Overview
This lesson explores the purpose and importance of rules and offers suggestions as to how to make and display class ‘Ground Rules’.
Learning activities:
Where did Humpty Dumpty go wrong?
The perfect classroom
A game with no rules
Creating your class rules
Reviewing the rules
"Very good as a quick re visit to making our class rules at the beginning of a new term."
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