Blender Cooperation
Sometimes people focus their comments and energy on negative things when they describe or tell about other people. It is also possible to look inside and think, " What can I do as a person to make a situation better? How can I help the group?"
So... what are some things I/you can do to make the class get along better and to be more supportive of others in the class and of others at Walker School? Please write at least four sentences. peace and light, Mark
posted by Mark Sherbow | 12:32 PM
81 Comments:
When I think of all the positive energy in our group, it makes me weak in the knees with good feelings. What I can do is focus on the positive things in each individual, including myself and build on strengths. I can be more sensitive and supportive of others in a light and smiley way.
Mark
I can help be suportive of the group by these 4 reasons.
1: If someone makes a mistake at recess sports I can let it fly.
2: I can try harder to not call out
3: I can not ruin other people's chances to answer questions.
4: I can sit away from Nillo John ECT.
Gabe Y
Hi River,
The princess book was TASTY! Oh, by the way, it said: MUST BE REFRIDGARATED on it. bye.
-Mocha
As a kid, which I still am, I think that to make the Blenders better and more supportive we should think more positive which is hard for some. What I meen is maybe we should have a time each day to relax and just focus on the positive things in our life. Some people may laugh when they think about some things that are positive because they are thinking about funny things.
If we don't want to have a five Star rating in the class of a good class, we really need to be more positive and pull ourselfs together to make a really good class.
One thing I could do is try to incorage people to not say bad words. It might be hard but any one could give it a try.
I also know that most of our class doesn't like Walker Elementary School right now, but if we give Walker and all it's people a chance, then maybe it will turn out to be the school that the Lincoln kids still remember. Like home. (Briscoe kids too if they still do not like Walker if they came to it after it closed.)
Really anyone that doesn't like Walker needs to give it a chance. Because, like I said before, it could become the school that is like home to you.
I can be nice.
I can not yell at people in P.E
I can be respectful
I can not talk to my friends
i can help be supported of the group from these reasons
• i can help people when they get hurt
• i can be an example
• i can read to the youngers when it is my turn
• i can help people when they are haveing trouble with something.
I can be supportive to the group by. Helping people when their hurt. To help people evan if their not my best friend if their hurt or in genaral. If any youngers need help I can help them. When im writing this it dosent mean that I dont help people when their hurt or help youngers.
Susannah
Well Here are some things I can do to help.
1. I can not sit next to my friends at all times except for at recess and lunch.
2. I can read with youngers more.
3. I could be a quieter person
4. I will continue patting peoples backs if they are hurt and need a teacher.
-Anna Epstein
Amy.C
1:Dont get in fights.
2:If you get hited dont hit or punch back talk to him or her.
3:Have good manners to teachers.
4: if someone has or eat something dont make fun of them or say like mean stuff.
5: and if you are bad at sports and if the person makes a goal dont say like you suck and other mean stuff. people make fun of me for being small but I like being small sometimes. so dont make fun of people or laght at some one. If you have don something rong try to fixe it try like help out or dont hit or kick or say mean words and I think we can do that.
I will help the group by being positve. I will put positive energy in our group. I will try to listen to other people and respect their feelings. The last thing is i will try to stand up to kids.
I can help by not talking to my friends in big group. i can be a good role modle to the yonger kids.
I can help the classroom by being supportive and helpful. Being open to others ideas. Listining. Helping others. And, trying my hardest.
How I could make the blenders a better community for mark. ?????????????????????????????????????????????? #1. Listen to mark when he is speaking or demonstrating. #2 . Don't distract other people. #3 If I hear other people talking to tell them to be quiet. P.S. mark your the best VENUS
How I can make school a better place.
1.I can not call out.
2.I can be quiet while we work when its working time.
3.I can sit away from my friends during work time.
4.I can be a good exaple.
p.s. thats how you spell my middle name! =)
For making the classroom better, I can not talk while other people are talking, and not complain when some one tells me to do something I don't want to do, and if I'm being annoying and someone aska me to stop, I'll stop instead of keep going.
Willa said that one thing I can do to make the class more positive is when we are doing group activities don't put down other people.
During recess when some one does not make a goal or etc. don't yell at them.
Don't tease people about their spelling.
And I will try not to talk to my friends during class.
I can read to the youngers a lot. I can not talk too\touch\ atack people. I can not call out. I can good coment on people at P.E.
Ryan.
what i could chang to help the group is:
-Not talking when its not my turn
-if some one is being mean to some one i could tell the person to stop
-I could be a good role modle for the 1st and 2nd graders
-not being so ruff in football
Jake
JUST SOME ADVISE:
When someone says they'll try, it doesn't happen. Like sometimes in the classroom, Mark says " So will you do that with your parents Soin so." and they'll say "I'll try." but then never do it. So sometimes i have a hard time believing people when they say "I'll try" becuase it'll never actually happen. (In my encounters with that anyway) Another time I have a hard time beleiving someone is when they accidentally hurt somebody, and they say "Sorry" without actually looking the person in the eyes, and then just walking off. And it feels like to me, that the person is just saying that so they don't get in trouble. I think like exactly what Kim said, a couple times a day, we should just stop and take deep breaths and focus. Doug (my director) has this game I'll show to everyone (if Mark let's me) and it's a game where you really have to consintrate, and focus, so your not as hyper, and more calmed. And when we talk about people being mean to others, surten people goof around because they're too embarressed or don't want to take it seriously because they're used to fun and games. Surten people are used to just keep going and going and going, until somebody asks them to stop. If Mark is up to it, my dad said he would come in for about a half an hour, and work with us and teach a bit of karate. Because Karate is not about beating people up and having a blackbelt, It's about focusing and respecting others. It's only if Mark and the class wants it though.
-Myan
Sorry I'm taking this so seriously, but it's a serious project.
I like blogging. Mark, can you make one where we just talk to each other like e-mail?
i think i can not talk to my friends.
i can also not sit next to john nillo and javier.
and be a good modle foor the yongers.
I think if we all could be nice to onanother we woulden't have any problems and I could do that to help the group. And if at P.E people could not judge eachother that would be great and just realise that if your not as skilled your still trying your best and I could do that. And focas on your self instead of others I could do that. And be positive to others and thats a list of my ideas.
Hi myan want so gormai sushi in a can? next time I'll bring a shovle.
Hey Anna hope you don't have trouble with scary people and visous dogs
I know that ot os hard for some peopel it is hard not pic on peopel. But that cant hapen. I lnee give thees things.
1. Do not talk back
2. Icnar them.
3. The peopel that are picing on other peopel shood be spended.
It is not a goke.I got piced on when I was in prees sckool.
What impresses me about the Blenders is that they are very high level thinkers and can be very supportive one another....
Mark
I think that Mark should send kids to the back of the room and stuff when they talk when he is talking.
I think that evrybody in the class should think about what they say befor they say it.
I think that the teachers should not say that our class is horiball just because some kids are being bad.
I think that evrybody should treet each otheras they would like to be treated.
Hi! Javier here.
I think there are a few thing's I can do.
(1) Not sit by Shi Niilo Gabe.y and Gabe.j
(2) Be an examlpe for the rest of the class.
(3) do not fool around.
(4) if there's a probelm I can help out.
Well I thingk Im out of Ideas
so bye!
I can make the class a better place by these reasons.
1: I could stop cursing
2: I could stop talking to my friends in the group
3: I could Stop yelling at people in P.E.
I can make the class a better place by these reasons.
1: I could stop cursing
2: I could stop talking to my friends in the group
3: I could Stop yelling at people in P.E.
4: I could adersbe a good role model for the 1st and 2nd graders.
I can make the class a better place by these reasons.
1: I could stop cursing
2: I could stop talking to my friends in the group
3: I could Stop yelling at people in P.E.
4: I could be a good role model for the 1st and 2nd graders.
Morning Blenders! Today I'm going to be the most positave person I can be. I won't talk during Morning Meeting, (or any other Mark talking times) and I won't make jokes. It is important to me to make the class more positive, and less nagitive to others. It would be a step if nobody cussed to others. It would be about 2-3 steps if we stopped being nagitive to others and to ourselves. To P.E. and Music I will be quieter so the other classes won't hear me. I think we all can do that. Walking quietly down to P.E. and Music is an activity we can all partisapate in.
Well, gotta go Blenders.
-Myan
I was just thinking, when some people say at lunch that people offend them, I have noticed that the people that say that other people offend them, they offend others. That has happened to me, I think that if you do not like what someone has in their lunch just move away, the same goes for if your friend teases you, they are not your friend, just move away.
-Anna E
Another thing we can do is to not take extra snack. I see certain people almost every time coming in during recess and taking extra snack. I tell them no but they do not listen. So just what I'm saying is, is when you take extra snack, think about how unfair it is to the others, and to thye others that didn't even get snack. Toodles.
-Myan
Love is the ability and willingness
to allow those that you care for
to be whatever they choose for
themselves...
without any insistence
that they please you.
-Wayne Dyer
One way of being more positive would befor people to stop and think about how what they say will affect others. If you ask any adult, we all remember mean things that someone said to us when we were young. Kids should realize that when they say something unkind, the person they say it to may never be able to forget it. Do you want to make someone feel bad for years? Think about it!
some ideas
I can be nice to people, I can help people if they need help, I can read to youngers more, I can respect the classroom and everything in it.
Hi Blenders,
I had a great time reading all your blogs about cooperation and how to make the Blenders an even better community of teachers and learners. Being attentive and respectful listeners, using kind words, helping others and avoiding put downs seem to be some of the ones that were mentioned most. Now the challenge is....can you dedicate yourselves to making these personal changes? These are wonderful goals to work towards so I'm going to send you lots of good energy to help you make them a reality. You can do it!!
I just have no clue where to start. It's just so sad how, People like me, complain every day about useless, tiny, things, that don't matter. And people like Malakai who get's made fun of every day, barely ever, ever complain. It makes me want to cry at night. I just feel for Malakai, for what he has to go through. I mean, just imagine, being made fun of, almost 100 times a day. I don't see how he manages it. Malakai, is SO good at getting images in his mind, and turning those images, into actions. It, just breaks my heart, how it must feel, going home every day, and almost feeling, like you're about to cry. when someone makes fun of you, you just feel so bad, and like it's your fault. But it's not. It's not your fault. People might feel like they don't want to listen my blogs anymore. And that's Okay. You don't have to listen to my blogs, but listen to my words. Words are important to everyone.
We can't go around, measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exlude. We have to go around, measuring our goodness, by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.
I will do my best at quick transitions. I will not talk or sit next to Elijah in group time. I will do a lot better at DEARR time. I can be nicer to people out on the playground.
Sincerely,
Vinceint L. Wright
I think that Myan has a good sens
of what is a poroepereeit and not a proepreeit. Myan has a great miend and I think Myan shood ceap Writing.
Yes, I know that Myan's blog is deep. And I can completly agree.
Positiv enerjy means to have a loving happy outlook on somthing and being able to say something that would make another person feel good when you really don't want to say it or you really dislike the person. I toled you about this because somtimes I think that some people don't now what positive energy is. It is interesting to me how many people use positive energy and how many don't.
I completly agree with Myan, but I feel sad because Myan was being brave to stand up for Malakai. And I heard some people making fun of her for it like "So Myan do you have dreams about Malakia?!" and " "You must like Malakia alot if you cry for him?!" and their getting the wrong meaning.
Well I just finished a great book called the 'Birchbark House'. It is about a girl named Omakayas, which means little frog, (you know I like frogs!). And Small Pox comes and her little brother Newoo dies and her older sister Angeline, her best friend Ten Snow dies of chicken pox. It is sad, funny and scary at different times. I liked it and think you should read it.
-Anna Epstein
I Like Myans and kims I think that we should do what both say relaxe and stuff.And do what Mark says an dont make a exuse and do it so you dont have to do another day. I think we should do what evry one says. I wish evry one can get along.
From Amy
I Like Myans and kims I think that we should do what both say relaxe and stuff.And do what Mark says an dont make a exuse and do it so you dont have to do another day. I think we should do what evry one says. I wish evry one can get along.
From Amy
After reading a lot of of our blogs, I realize that although some of us say this and that, we just don't do what we say we will. We really need to do our best to show that we can be respectful and positive and everything else because if we do good things and not say stuff that hurts others feelings and more, we can show people, that may not completly like some of us because you say mean things to them, may start to like you as a friend.
I have to say that I TOTALLY agree with Myan's blogs. You may not like them but they have got a meaning to them that is very importent. And don't laugh at Myan just because she said something about Malakei that was nice. And I know that a lot of you laughed at Myan today because you don't like Malakei and you think that it's funny that Myan wrote something about him. And you know what, if you do this to other people a lot, they may decide later on in life that they just don't like you any more because of you're meaness towards others.
Really that's all I've got to say right now. And please try your best to do, not try, but DO better and nicer things in life.
This is Javier! I can not juge people!(you can juge a book by it's cover)
Don't be distactive to the class.
PS. Javier
When Myan read her comment on the blog L was just blown away at how long she put into this assiment. She just didn't write 3 sentences and than did somthing elss. She put real time and efort into this comment.
I rate your comment a 10 out of 10
I think Janice is right that you shouldn't call people names but adults should think about what the say to other poeple too.
Javier here! I think there are a few things we can do.
(1)Not juge people.(you can juge a book by it's cover.
(2)Do not dissturb the rest of the class.
(3)Do no not speak unless it's your trun!
(3)Do not full around!
(4)Do not be rude!
(5)do not call out!
(6)If you don't whant to be yelled at and called names be restpecful!
(7)What gose around comse around!
(8)do not complain about some one cause you can be doing the same thing!
(9) treat others like you whant to be treated!
i think janice had a great point when your makin' a rude coment you never know how thats hurting them. Some people think that foolings dont hurt but all that changes when it happens to them... thats why you should think befor ya' say
Jaky
I think that what Myan and Kim said was right. We should not say i'll try and we should give Walker a chance.
Susannah
I think that if the blenders try hard, they could be very kind, and not be mean, and not call names and stuff like that, we could be a great class and everybody would like us. I think that Niilo, and all those other kids, should try hard to be nice and not mean.
Hi i am responding to Myan's commet...
I totaly have been on both ends of the hole sorry thing. It really hurts when somone just walks away and grumbles sorry under there breath.
The other side is like your brains are not even there. you just are not thinking and the words just come tumbling out of your mouth.
Then about five-ten minuets later it really sinkes in that hey you have really just hurt somones feelings and that you are really sorry. But when you come to say that the other person justs walks away and dos'ent listen and that makes it alot harder to comunicate.
I can work on perfecting that by cooling off and realizing that this is all going to blow up in my face.
I realy liked how Myan could stand up for Malakai. I think it was brave of Myan to stand up for Malakai. The people that made fun of Myan it just because that she was just tring to make people stop being mean to Malakai. What people said to Myan that was totley on resinbel was "Oh so myan a here that you have dreams about Malakia?!" and " "You must like Malakia alot if you cry for him?!" and their getting the wrong meaning.
Every body! All of these posts are great! Now we have to focus on doing them. Exactaly what Myan said we can't just try to make all these things happen.
Ryan
responding to kim
i aggree we should be more positive and be more focased and i guess we could give walker another chance but lincoln is way way better
Responding to Myan on the subject of trying. U R right when someone says they are going to try to do something it usually dosent happen and if you say i'll try to do something and u really are going to do it just x out the try part. And just say i'll do something it saves time and energy.
THE END
Thanks guys. This makes me feel a bunch better. Also, I have a hard time beleiving someone when they say "Oh yeah, I'll do this and that and the other" on the blog. especially the five stuges. You guys are saying your gonna do this, but then don't. I know I'm saying the same thing over and over. But I'm saying it over and over because certain people don't hear me, or other Bloggers. So, just listen to your other classmates. It might help. But then I might be wrong. Who knows?
In response to Myan
dont be mean to the stooges.
Uncool. Especialy on a website now the stooge name will be disgraced for generations.
actually I believe their is stooges Me, Niilo, Gabe y, Gabe j, Javier, Avi and Paul.
see there is 7 now.
I think the blenders is a good class. I like all the kids! But I don't like it how people have to wait and wait for other kids to stop talking. It's boring waiting.
Ellie C.
Gabe Young said,
I agree with Myan and Kim completely that we should take some time in the day ( maybe after lunch) to calm ourselves. We should do it after lunch because everyone is all hyper and sometimes even mad from recess and we just need a time where we all just sit down on the floor for 5 minutes and nobody talkes or guestures to one another and we let out some of our outside emoshins and bring back our inside emotions, voices, actions etc. It's important to have this time or else we will bring our outside energy inside and somebody might get hurt mentaly of phisicly. so anyway I belive we should be nice to everyone in the class including Ashtin and Malakai and even Stormy and don't you dare ever call them names like Moo-luh-ki, AA-sh-tin or thunder and lighning. so anyway thats all.
Gabe Y.
i agree with Mr. pink. when we are all comeing back from lunch resess we are all a little roudy and maby a little mad. i think we should just take a little while to calm down.
niilo! yaa i'm cool dude. Ha Ha
my brother told me to write that.
Bye, Bye
I belive you people are rong bout the stooges they r just a bunch of nice kids that happen to be picked on by their teacher Mark.
After hearing Myan's blog I relivd how bad it fells when some one sais sory when they don't mean it. And I will not try I will actiually mean it when I say sory.
It is really sad that a lot people get their feelings hurt in P.E.People get so competitive they start being mean to other people because they wan't to win so much. Ive gotten my feelings hurt a lot in P.E. and I see a lot of other people get their feelings.
A lot of people say Ill try to be nicer to people, like Myan said, Ill try is just like saying I say I will but I won't. I really wish that every one could just be nicer.
Leah
I must say that I am impressed with the level of discussion that the Blenders have been having about friendship, getting along and being nicer.
My two cents worth... What I notice in my life is that I am able to influence very few people, except for myself... I can become aware of what I am doing and then work on making my actions more in line with what I know is right.
Ask your yourself... feel... is what I am doing, the way I am talking, does that make others feel good? How does it make you feel if someone is hurt by your words? Do you feel when others are hurt? Do you feel when you are hurt by others?
Tell about a time you were hurt by someone's words or actions... be specific...
Mark
I've just been thinking and I thought this; why and how do we chose the people we include and exclude? Is it because they wear different clothes?, they are a boy or a girl?, they have a different hair color? Why? If any one knows I would like to know.
I think that one reason we exclude is because we just want to play with certin people who we know better then others.
Kim
this is what i will do to make the class a better place.
1=)i will help the youngers if thay nead it.
2=)i will put others neads befor mine.
3=)if someone makes a mistake doring recess or PE i will let it fly.
4=)i will try harder to not call out when mark asks a question to the class.
PS mark you are the beast
Mark is a "beast"?
Be who you are and say what you feel;
because those who mind don't matter and those matter,
don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
I have learned silence from the talkative,
tolerance from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind:
Yet strangely,
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
I'm sitting here, thinking, people think I'm a writer? But, what about the other 24 or 25 or how ever many people are writers too. Listen to these blogs, don't read them, listen to them. It might help you calm down if your getting to roudy or angry. Just something to think about.
Your blogs aply to yourself
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