August the 21st through the 23rd
During the first week of school, we did icebreakers to find out more about each other. The ice breakers were the six word poems, the inside outside circle, and the activity where we had to line up in a certain order based on shoe size, birthday etc. without talking. The six word poem was where we could only use six words to describe ourselves and we had to guess who's was who's. The activity where we had to line up without talking, showed us how it would be if we were deaf and had to use "sign language" or communicate to others that didn't know sign language.

My six word poem

Monday the 26th
We assigned our name tags that we decorated above the six word  poem they completed. The person that guessed the most correctly got a prize. We also did an activity where we were assigned a crayon, but we couldn't share the crayon or use another person's. The thing we had to draw was our vision of a teacher with some words that describe it. We presented our teachers to the front of the class and then we read The Crayon Box That Talked.


My group making our teacher



Tuesday the 27th
We played a game called Human Bingo where we had to go around and ask questions without asking the same person twice. Also we did an activity where we had to change 5 things about our appearance and our partner had to guess what we changed. Then Mrs. Turner, told us to change five more things and finally ten things. This showed us how difficult change is and how overwhelming it can be. Then we read the book Wings of change that deals with children having to go through change.

My Human Bingo card

The book Wings of change

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Wednesday through Friday the 28th-30th
On these days we did a craft in response to the book  Wings of Change. We made our own butterflies and got to decorate them however we wanted to. On our butterflies, there were certain questions the we answered and glued onto the wings of our butterfly. The questions were "If I were guaranteed success I would...", "I strongly believe that...", "I _______ very well", and "My source of strength is..." We worked on these until Friday and then presented our butterflies to the class and read our answers to the questions.

My butterfly

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Albert Einstein