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Reflections From 6th Grade

Good morning. We wanted to share some student work with you today. Nili Isenberg's and Laura Notowitz's 6th grade TaNaKh classes came up with some pretty thoughtful, reflective, and inspiring answers to the following prompt. 

Discuss a time someone made a promise to you, or you made a promise to someone else. Perhaps think about something that you are promising right now, with these new conditions we are living through: What can you promise to your parents, siblings, teachers? What expectations do you have from them in return?
  • During this new and uncertain time while I am learning from home, I made a promise to myself to try my best, to stay positive, to complete my assignments on time, and to help out where I am needed. 
  • I promised my parents that I will behave well and help them when they need help, and I expect them to do the same in return.
  • I can promise to everyone I know to behave right now and that I will be mature so I don’t make it harder or more stressful for them
  • During these times, I promised my mom I’d be nice and not get annoyed at my little sister. In return, my expectations are that I get to do stuff without her and get some free time and don’t have to be with her all the time.
  • I made a promise that, now that we’re at home, I will play with my little sister every day.  Of course I want to be with her, because she’s in pre-school, and needs to be social, but I’m really worried about breaking this promise, because of all the work I need to get done.
  • A promise I am making right now is to do all my school work and not get distracted from other things and also to not be on my phone all day and work on other things outside of school.
  • A promise I made to myself is to finish all my class work on time. Even though it’s a lot. I expect myself to finish all of my work even if it means not having as much free time.
  • A promise I made to my parents was that I would work equally hard in online school as I did when we had actual school. My expectations for them in return was helping me and encouraging me to try hard.
  • I promised my parents to stay on task during online school when they're at work. I promised to not play games or watch youtube.
  • I promise to work as hard as I can in virtual learning and do as much as I can and I expect that teachers will not make the work super hard.
  • I have promised my dad today that I wouldn’t be on screens every second of the day and would do other things outside of my iPad.
  • I promised my parents to help around the house. Doing chores more often and trying to be helpful. It is especially difficult during these times because we can’t go to stores to get food or supplies.
  • I made a promise to my baseball team that we will win every single game in the season and our season got postponed. So I may have failed that promise. But I expect that my team will forgive me.
  • My parents promised me that everything will be okay in these conditions that we are living through. 
  • I am promising myself to keep calm in this time of stress.
  • I can promise to look at the glass half full and be grateful for the things I have in my life. In return I would like other people to think the same way.

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