Fly

As a "welcome back" project (I always like to star the year with something easy, personal and engaging--this year I also made it collaborative!)  I had every student in the school decorate a feather- this is just something I drew up and made photocopies of.  I had two versions of the feather--one that curved left and one that curved right

As you can see on my feather sheets, I had the kids include personal symbolism and goals for themselves for the year.  They could also add any other decorative drawings and designs they wanted to fill and finish off their feather

Once the feathers were complete, I assembled our wings and wrote "Fly" above the wings; inspired by Erin Hanson's gloriously famous poem that is frequently quoted around the world, "What if I fall?  Oh but my darling, what if you fly?"

I photographed each of my students in front of the wings and shared it with their families via Seesaw (this is an amazing app...are you familiar?  Ask me about it!  It's an amazing way to privately share images with parents and I often have the kids add to their seesaw account themselves, so it doesn't even take time out of my day to keep it updated).

Wings, ready to be hung

Me, taking them for a test fly--they were hanging outside of our office so that anyone could admire, be inspired by, and/or photograph themselves with them!