It seems like I can never keep track of all of those days/weeks of appreciation...you know, Administrative Assistant's Day, Boss' Day, Monkey Trainer's Day, etc. The resource teacher emailed me earlier this week alerting me to the fact that this past week was School Counselor Appreciation Week. Our school counselor is full of awesome. She and I used to have rooms right next to each other when she taught resource, but last year she moved up to the office as our counselor. Now, I am still super lucky to have her come to my room 3 times a week for my math intervention class. On top of all this her and I share a love for TV shows ranging from Downton Abbey to American Horror Story. We try to meet once a week to dish on the latest episodes.
Anyhow, we needed to have our intervention kiddos make something to show their appreciation, and I wanted to make sure that I didn't lose instructional time. Well, it just so happens that we have been studying 3D shapes and volume and I had already copied off a cube net on pretty pink. The idea hit and I knew what to do. The kids wrote notes and drew pictures on each face and then cut and taped them together. One girl even rushed back to her classroom for a piece of jewelry to put inside of her cube! We brought our cubes to the floor and used them to make some rectangular prisms and found the volume of each. Then we took a walk over to the front office. I sent a few kids at a time into her office and they built a rectangular prism of appreciation right there on her desk.
Today's Formula . . . Learning x Fun x Gratitude = Gift of Appreciation^3
I'm linking up with Head Over Heels for Teaching's "Spark Student Motivation Saturdays"
What an awesome idea. Creative and educational! I need to remember this for my crew.
ReplyDeleteSo clever! I love how your incorporated learning, appreciation and craftiness all in one! This is such a cute idea! Thanks for sharing and linking up!
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What a unique idea! The counselor must have loved it!
ReplyDeleteSara :)
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What a fun and unique idea! I love ideas like this. Thanks for sharing!
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