Value dice
Turkey
The students wrote a story about the value of the dice they threw and presented it in the classroom. It was a very enjoyable event.
We prepared our values dice, which is the February activity.
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United Kingdom
Croatia
Let me tell you a story
Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of diversity of all world's cultures, our way of expression and the way to be people. It is based on the knowledge, openness, communication, freedom of opinion, moral sense and belief. Tolerance is harmony in difference.
In Students' Council class children talked about tolerance, mutual respect and understanding motivated with the upcoming International Tolerance Day (annually observed on November 16). Students listed and sorted out all the positive values that tolerance brings as also all the negative values that intolerance brings.
Tolerance - Positive and Negative Values
Positive Values – hope, empathy, respect, forgiveness, justice, compassion, sharing, patience, friendship, love, acceptance, trust, kindness, equality
Negative Values – hate, anger, gossip, violence, neglect, humiliation, fear, loneliness, shame, anxiety, sadness, pain
Through the activity Dice up a story students rolled the dice which was covered with different words (values) on each side. The word they got they had to make up a short story with the topic on that value.
Emili (5th D form) wrote a classic fairy tale In the Magic Dust about greed.
Marta (6th D form) wrote a modern fairy tale The Magic Book about empathy.
In English class 5th D form made a poster on tolerance with their form teacher.
Through the activity Fairy Tales Then and Now students worked together and wrote a modern version of Rapunzel following the given instructions. Also, Mara (5th D form) wrote a classic fairy tale A Shiny Star.
Portugal - Madeira
The second grade played with the dice and created a collective story , named “ The Wolf and his friends” , about a beautiful friendship between four unlikely friends that learn to respect each others diferences. Along the way the four friends live many adventures together and develop the love for reading wich they share with lots of other friends. This way they had fun and learned lots of new things. After the story and the student continued the activity , studied the geometric solids and built a dice and a book based on this activity.
The first graders worked arround the love value. With this activity we aim to help students overcome problematic behaviours through dialogue and reflecting about values. After throwing the dice, the students dialogued about love and its importance in our lives. They created a story named “The love of Jonas and Carlota” about two bunnies in love. One day Carlota was hunted by the big bad wolf. Jonas went and save his girfriend by offering himself to the wolf. The wolf was very surprised and so impressed, that he released them. After a while, the two bunnies got married and invited the wolf to be their best man . The three became good friends and lived happily ever after. The students then ilustrated the story , learned how to build an origami heart and wrote the name of value both in portuguese and english.
The third grade class , also worked with the value dice.
In a first moment, the students dialogued about each value of the dice and searched for its deffinition in the dictionary . Then they read some stories for inspiration to create new ones. After that they threw the dice and created stories in group. The two best were chosen and improved in order to make a book. The values worked in both stories were respect, tolerance and empathy.
Slovenia
At a branch school Šentvid pri Grobelnem, in February we played with a dice of values.
The dice had been waiting for us to use it for a while, so the kids were so much more curious about what we were going to do with it.
We first talked about what values are. Which are more important to whom. Then we threw a cube. We then talked about value and sought out examples and stories about responsibility, solidarity, love, respect, tolerance and justice. We find that students know a lot and that we have to little time to talk.
After half a year, in the week of the child, we remembered the value dice again. We were now looking to see, if our values had changed anything, given the situation with the corona virus.
