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Team Building? Try this...

The Human Knot
From Carl Spruill , spruills@bellsouth.net

Warm teams up with the "human knot". Tell team to stand in a circle facing each other. Reach across with your right hand and grab the right hand of someone who is not standing right beside you. Reach across with your left hand and grasp the left hand of another team member but not of the same person whose right hand you are holding (confused yet?). Tell the team, "You are now in a human knot. Your challenge is to untangle yourselves by stepping over or over someone else without letting go of hands." This takes lots of teamwork and cooperation and also gets both sides of the brain thinking. Kid's love it!

For a little twist, do not allow any talking.

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Transforming Typical Flat Stanley Project

Here is the link to the paper copy of the worksheet sent home

Because Andrew also has less than legible handwriting, we saved this worksheet to One Note by right clicking and selecting Send to One Note. Here he could confidently type his responses, include a link to the movie and insert a photo. We saved the final document as a PDF and he emailed the attachment to his teacher along with a link to the movie.

Andrew had a great time coming up with a unique idea for Flat Stanley. He spent all afternoon devising a story line, Saving Stanley. With a little bit of help we transformed a static worksheet into a project that came alive right in our back yard! Check it out teachers and let us know what you think...Watch the movie by clicking here

He is 8. And for the first time in a long time he was engaged in his learning. Actively engaged. It made my heart smile.