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Trees Class Promises

November 10, 2021 | Sossi Essajanian

Over the past months, the children have learned about each other and their space, learned routines, and shared in laughter. As they shape a classroom culture, some ideas emerged about what this culture should be like.

To begin thinking about this, the class responded to a reading of Have you Filled a Bucket Today?  by Carol McCloud, illustrated by David Messing. In the book, people add drops to other peoples’ buckets by doing caring things or using kind words. The concept of bucket filling provided a visual for the idea of caring for others and being part of a community. It also helped the children make the connection that a person’s actions and words can affect others in different ways.

The children made their own promises to each other by thinking about the question…

What do we need to feel happy and safe in our classroom?

The Trees Class Promises

Sossi Essajanian

Teacher, Sky Class

Sossi Essajanian is excited to continue her teaching and learning journey at the Mustard Seed School. She began teaching at the United Nations International School where she worked with children and colleagues from around the world. This inspired her to take a primary teaching position abroad in Nicosia, Cyprus, where she lived and worked for two years.

Ms. Essajanian has a passion for supporting children’s social/emotional skills and learning through a loving and caring classroom community. These are built on creating shared understandings and opportunities for children to identify and express their feelings and of those around them. She believes in creating experiences through pair and group work where learning blossoms through social experiences.

Ms. Essajanian also enjoys reading and talking about books and continues to pursue her second passion: editing. She’s worked in various editorial capacities in newspapers, magazines, and books. She was recently excited to serve as the development editor of a children’s book about engineering and is looking forward to leading some tinkering investigations of her own with her students!

In her free time Ms. Essajanian runs, swims laps, and likes to take long walks to explore the world around her.

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