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Keyten77, all of you teachers and all of us here on FS. I think this is a great exercise if it were to be allowed by the district. I don’t know anything about restrictions on “privacy” and so on.
If you walk into our classroom now, you'll see a bag hanging by our door. This bag contains everything our class carries to school that we consider problems or bad things in our lives. The things that distract us, sadden us, or make us angry.
Something I have found in common with every student conversation about something upsetting them is that the student believes he/ she is the only one who has a problem, hard life, family problem, whatever it may be.
So today, we all anonymously wrote down on paper what was heavy on our hearts, crumpled them up, and threw them. I mixed them all up and students had to pick one up and we all ready them out loud. I could not believe some of the things they have to deal with at home, and neither could their peers. It resulted in a lot of tears, a lot of hugs, a lot of "I had no idea so many people had hard things to deal with too."
The message of the project, as I discussed with them, is that you never know the weight that people are carrying. It is so important to remember that when we interact with others. I wanted them to see that they were not alone and that they had a whole class of people who could relate and support them.
Our stories now hang by our door as a reminder to remember the "bag" others may carry with them
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1299 kcal
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Fat: 43.03g | Prot: 61.84g | Carbs: 169.99g.
Breakfast: Nature's Path Heritage Flakes Multigrain Cereal, Cream (Half & Half), Sarabeth's Orange Apricot Marmalade, Welch’s grape juice and Hibiscus drink, Dave's Killer Bread Thin-Sliced Good Seed Bread, POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice, Maxwell House International Cafe Orange. Lunch: R.W. Knudsen Family 4% Milkfat Small Curd Cottage Cheese, Nutiva Organic Chia Seed, Tillamook good and creamy vanilla bean yogurt, CanMar Foods Milled golden flax, Driscoll's Blueberries, Tru-Nut Powdered Peanut Butter, Chobani Nonfat Plain Greek Yogurt, Ranch Granola, Medjool Dates, Sunsweet Dried Pitted Prunes. Dinner: Eating Right Spring Mix Salad Greens, Walden Farms Thousand Island Dressing, Sprouts Farmers Market Seedsational Whole Grain Bread, Pure Leaf Honey Green Tea, Tomato Red Pepper Soup, Boar's Head Baby Swiss Cheese, StarKist Foods Low Sodium Chunk Light Tuna (Pouch). more...
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1652 kcal
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Exercise:
Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 30 minutes, Grocery Shopping - 1 hour, Cooking - 1 hour, Housework - 2 hours, Studying - 1 hour, Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 10 hours and 30 minutes. more...
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