In celebration of Kairos Day–a Peck tradition– fourth graders found ways to intertwine The Peck School’s InDeCoRe values in their reading of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.
InDeCoRe, which stands for Individual Development and Community Responsibility, is the framework through which Peck teaches and lives its core values on a daily basis. The core values—care, courage, gratitude, resilience, respect, plus a sixth value designated by the graduating class, which this year is stewardship—are woven throughout the Peck experience and amplified on Kairos Days.
Kairos Days (which occur three times per year) are days we find opportune moments to carve out additional time to consider and work towards the ideals implicit in our core values.
In a perfect example of taking the opportune moment, fourth-grade teachers prompted a discussion of what Peck's core values can be found in their classroom read, Charlotte’s Web. Students began class talking about the importance of our values to the overall community and then worked in small groups to find examples of these values in what they’ve read. After pulling textual evidence from the story and summarizing what had happened in Charlotte’s Web, students had plenty of examples of InDeCoRe Values to share with one another from the reading.
“Students came up with a lot of great examples of how the InDeCoRe Values show up in their everyday lives during our class discussion. By pushing them to identify these values in their reading of Charlotte’s Web, helps to further reinforce how they can find these values all around them– coming full circle on a day like Kairos Day,” says Fourth Grade Homeroom Teacher Chelsey Carr.