• What is your school building like?
  
  
  Ours is brick. We’ve got three buildings with roofs connecting each building. There are halls down the middle of each building with rooms on both sides. But since it’s hot here, we also have sidewalks down each side of the building and we usually walk outside rather than in the halls! We have meetings and things in the halls. It’s pretty neat.
  
• What languages are spoken at your school?
  

  At our school we mostly speak English but some kids speak Spanish and a few speak Japanese and Vietnamese!

• What kind of clothes do you wear?
  

  Lots of us wear blue jeans and tee shirts, but we live in a desert where it’s hot. Then we wear shorts. A few of the girls wear skirts.
  
  

• How about where you live and the houses you live in?
  

Most of us live close to school. We either live in apartment buildings or in houses. They’re pretty much the same.

• What kind of things do the kids in your school care about?
  
  

We care about our best friends and our families.

Our teachers help us care about all the kids in our class
and in the school. We’re supposed to be polite to
everyone!

Most of us like sports. All of us like recess!

We all want to learn to read and write well. We are
busy learning our math. Most of us get tired of all the tests we have to take – but we try our hardest. Our school got an A+ rating last year cause we do so well.

We like doing drama, especially when we get to videotape
what we do.

Most of us have pets. Our principal does lots of things
with the humane society so we all think about dogs and
cats and lizards and things.

Oh, and we like our teachers. Our principal is pretty cool
too. He reads poetry over the morning announcements.

When you think about your school community, getting along with everyone else is pretty important. If everyone doesn’t get long well, it is hard to learn. This is good citizenship. Citizenship means you belong to a group. When you do, you have certain rights, but you also have responsibilities, things you need to do. There are rules to make and to follow. What are some of the rules in your classroom?

We have a school credo that we all wrote that says what our rights and responsibilities are.

Making dramas about what happens at school can help us think about how other people feel. This is important if we want to understand them and get along with them.