Drafting Our Class Welcome Promise

Recite land acknowledgment. Read 1 caregiver-suggested welcome line from week-5 input.

• Honor caregiver voice as the foundation of the promise
• Set tone: this is OUR shared promise

Today we draft OUR class welcome promise - a promise that names all four paths and commits us to welcoming newcomers. We started this with caregiver input last week. Today we read The Name Jar - the story of Unhei, who came from Korea and decided whether to keep her Korean name. The story shows what welcome looks like: a friend pronouncing her name correctly, a name-jar full of suggestions but the choice respecting her. Now we draft our promise.

• Welcome is action.

  model They learned to pronounce her name. They invited her ideas. They respected her choice. They made room.

  prompt What did Unhei's classmates do that was welcoming?

• What is one welcoming action you can take this week?

M-2-S-CIV-06-B Photograph

Photo set 11x14 showing two example bilingual welcome signs from real schools (with permission): (1) a Brooklyn elementary school's 5-language welcome banner including English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Haitian Creole; (2) a San Francisco elementary school's bilingual English-Cantonese welcome arch. Both photos demonstrate that real schools post welcome promises. Source line: 'school permissions on file.'

• Each child contributes one sentence or word to the class welcome promise. Teacher scribes onto MG-6 template.

  scaffold Sentence-frame strips: 'I welcome ___.' / 'Everyone who is here ___.'
• Whole-class recitation of the draft promise.

M-2-S-CIV-06-A Chart Physical / non-image

Anchor chart 24x36 portrait showing MG-6 template as detailed in media_global_notes. Teacher scribes children's sentences as they contribute. Bilingual translation rows appear below the main text. Final draft posted at the school entrance week-7.

MG-6 Chart

Mounted on classroom wall at child-eye-height; mirrored at the school entrance (with administration permission). Recited weekly in Morning Meeting after lesson 6. Caregivers receive a copy in the week-6 parent letter. CRITICAL: the promise was drafted with input from caregivers in week 5 - never invented by staff in isolation.

• Recite or read aloud one sentence from the class welcome promise.

• Promise goes home with caregivers for final approval
• Preview: posting at school entrance next week

• Show your family the draft welcome promise. Ask: would you add or change anything?