Wednesday, September 28, 2016

September Meeting: Silent Lego Challenge

We had a fun meeting on Monday catching up and eating lots of pizza. Many of the Bookshoppers shared favorite parts from exciting summer travel adventures. We also played a little warm-up game called This or That before moving on to our main activity.

Since there wasn't an official book to read for the meeting, I asked the group to work together to come up with a Bookshop logo out of Legos. The catch was that they could have ten minutes to talk and plan, and then they would have to do the actual building without talking. They came up with a concept pretty quickly, but there was some confusion about how to create a book out of Legos.

Once the box of Legos was opened, they did a great job of not talking to each other, using paper and pencils to write down any questions or brainstorming ideas. There was a fair amount of humming and borderline talking noises though...

Some pictures of the process along with the final product are below.






We will NOT be meeting in October (our September meeting would normally be the first Monday in October, but that falls on Rosh Hashanah so it was moved up a week), so our next meeting will be Monday, November 7. In the spirit of Halloween, we will be reading The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud. It's the first in the somewhat spooky series, Lockwood & Co., about three kids who run a ghost fighting agency in London. We will be using a free online brochure-making program, Canva, to create brochures to advertise new business for the agency. Copies of the book can be picked up at the Children's Room desk.

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