Today we did a team building exercise (pictures on my lindbergh website) in which I divided everyone into teams of four or five people. Each team received a section of the newspaper, copy paper, and tape. They had five minutes to plan how they would construct a structure that could cover all of their heads. They could talk during those five minutes, but could not touch the materials. Then, they got ten minutes to build it, but could not talk. It was extremely funny and a lot of fun. We learned about cooperation and teamwork and helping each other. The most creative group in each class got a special prize.
After all of that craziness, I read some short memoirs - "Being Mean" and "7th Grade" by Gary Soto (not all classes got to hear all of the stories). We talked more about how a memoir doesn't necessarily have to be completely true - the details are made up, but are true to the memory and the sense of the story.
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What you guys did sounds really fun and I bet it was really loud in the class room. To bad I wasnt there to do any of it was really fun!
that activity was so fun:)
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