Students investigate how to move through Spruce School safely and respectfully by practicing real hallway routines and noticing what helps everyone learn. Through mystery-route challenges, buddy walk-throughs with third graders, and Safety Patrol practice, they use kind words, keep hands to themselves, follow directions, and do their best work in shared spaces. They create and revise hallway safety posters for key school areas so their learning becomes a useful product for the whole school.

Students will name and explain school rules for safe travel, including keeping hands to themselves, using kind words, being respectful and honest, doing their best work, and following directions. They will practice moving through hallways by stopping, lining up, walking quietly, and noticing what safe, respectful behavior looks like in different school spaces. Students will create simple posters with drawings, labels, and oral explanations to teach others how to travel safely through Spruce School. They will reflect on their own choices during transitions and use feedback from classmates, third-grade buddies, Safety Patrol, and the teacher to improve their work and hallway routines.

Students will create quick practice artifacts throughout the week, including class-made rule charts, simple route maps with pictures, and sketch drafts of hallway expectations for places like doors, corners, and the cafeteria line. In pairs and small groups, they will make student-made hallway safety signs with drawings, labels, and oral explanations that show where to stop, line up, walk quietly, keep hands to themselves, use kind words, be respectful and honest, do their best work, and follow directions. The final product is a set of kindergarten-created walking posters for key Spruce School spaces that can be hung in the hallways. Students will also contribute brief reflection shares after buddy walk-throughs to help revise posters before exhibition.

Begin with a teacher-led “mystery route” through Spruce School, where children travel to a few key spaces and solve simple movement challenges such as where to stop, how to line up, and how to walk quietly with hands to self. At each stop, students practice using kind words, following directions, being respectful and honest, and doing their best work as they decide how Spruce Stars should move through the building. Back in the classroom, invite students to talk about what they noticed and co-create a class chart of safe travel ideas that will guide their hallway safety sign set. This shared experience gives children a concrete reason to make posters that help everyone learn and stay safe.

Host a short “Walk Like a Spruce Star” poster parade where kindergarteners carry or stand by their hallway safety signs in the real school spaces they designed for, then explain with words and pictures where to stop, line up, walk quietly, keep hands to yourself, and use kind words. Invite third-grade buddies, Safety Patrol, families, and school staff to join a simple school walk-through so students can model respectful travel, honest listening, and following directions along the route. After the walk, hang the student-made posters in hallways, near doorways, and other key transition spots so the whole school can use them every day.