This morning, Danny and I continued discussing responsibility. In his Florida Studies Weekly series, we explored our I Am Responsible packet. We examined ways that we are responsible in various settings. To be responsible in the classroom, we said that Danny would follow directions and listen. At home, Danny will be responsible by putting his dirty clothes in the basket and cleaning up his toys. He can be responsible at the playground by being safe and sharing. Finally, in the community, he can be nice to others and throw trash in the garbage can. Many of Danny's responses were just "be nice" and "be helpful", but he couldn't add much more. We worked together to expand his responses and develop the language needed for more specific responses. Our work also focused on problem solving. We discussed fairness, and the use of voting and discussion to make decisions. We were given a scenario in which two children wanted to use the computer. We read through various examples of ways to solve the problem and decided which were appropriate. To further practice with the vocabulary, we completed fill in the blank sentences using the appropriate words. Finally, we played a game in which we rolled the dice to execute a conflict resolution strategy just based on a random dice roll. We discussed if that was a good strategy for the specific conflict and if not, what might work better. At home: it would helpful to practice the strategy of taking a vote to help with a decision. We ended our session by completing the Community Helpers from A to Z book that we started yesterday. We read about various roles from M to Z which included mail carriers, pharmacists, and zookeepers.