Project Overview

Students in Lake Bluff’s MAC 1 East (multiage 1st and 2nd-grade classroom) were responsible for creating a presentation about honesty for their school wide community circle. Students worked in small teams - two MAC 1 students with one MAC 3 student (multiage 5th and 6th-grade classroom) to brainstorm what they thought honesty meant. Working together with the older students helped foster a more in depth conversation and brought in multiple perspectives.

After the brainstorming activity, statements were selected. As a class, the MAC 1 students came up with examples for each statement about what honesty means to them. In pairs, the students illustrated the examples that would go with each statement. The pages were put together as a class book  and students recorded an audio version of each student reading the text on the page they had illustrated.