Mrs. Libby's First Graders Blabberize using Habit 5

This week in Journeys we discussed what we can learn from the character's actions and feelings in a story. Students synergized by reading a story then filling out a story map about the characters. They then grouped their thoughts and created a blabberize telling about their character and the lesson they learned. This is a sample of how 7 Habits can be brought into lessons you are already teaching. The kids had to use Habit 5, Seek First to Understand (diving into the text to identify the character's action, infer the character's feelings through pictures and words as well as the Author's Message), Then to be understood (the team worked together (Habit 6) to decide what the most important information was that they wanted to share with others in the Blabberize.

See links to get a peek. and This one too.