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Adrian Neibauer's avatar

This is great! I have also been designing a similar activity for my fifth-graders for our first week of school. Great minds think alike! I love your slides and the examples you have used. With your permission, I would love to incorporate your name story examples into my own activity. Thank you for sharing!

Matthew Johnson's avatar

Adrian, that means so much coming from you! I've been loving your posts; the line "About six weeks before school starts, I become a wastrel," was maybe my favorite line of the entire summer, as it got right to the core of how I feel this time of year.

You can absolutely incorporate anything from the name story in your own activities. I was admittedly nervous about sharing that one, as I often like to try activities before sharing them publicly, but it just feels like a new approach is so important this year, so I decided to put it out there. I hope it helps, and in the meantime, thank you so much for reading, connecting, and all the amazing work you are doing!

Brandon Merrill's avatar

Big fan of this!

Matthew Johnson's avatar

Thank you so much!!