As you know, part of our discipline system is making sure it is truly a discipline system- that everyone in our groups is learning to control and focus themselves.  Each year, the fifth grade writes their own mission statement at the beginning of the year each year, where we focus on the kind of class and relationships we want to have.

We began the discussion by talking about mission words that we know- a spy’s mission, missionaries, and how those people have a specific job or jobs to to that are more important than anything else in their lives at that time. Our mission statement should be, for us, a statement about what are our most important goals so that we can decide where to put our time and energy. It will control our choices about work and our behavior. We looked at the school’s mission, last year’s fifth grade class mission, and the preamble to the Constitution- which is, in a way, the Government’s mission statement.

We started by listing some of the things we thought were important about school or to have in school:

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