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Dear Family,

Today, in our Social Studies class, we discussed the need for rules. One point that I tried to stress was that rules are for the common good. (The rules can be helpful to everyone in the class.) Your child worked in a group and then the whole class developed a set of classroom rules that would be for the common good.

As an extension of this lesson, your child will ask you about rules that you remember from your childhood. As you share these rules with your child, would you please ask him or her to explain why each rule would benefit the entire class?

During our next lesson each child will be asked to explain the purpose of a rule and how it meets the needs of the common good.

Thank you for your help with this lesson.

Sincerely,