Colored Dots...

Who would think simple colored dots could create such a positive learning experience. On Friday, we put four different colors (blue, green, red, yellow) of dots on each person's forehead. Directions were given for each person to find other people with the same colored dot and meet together. The only other direction was "no talking." It was great to watch kids communicate with one another to not only figure out what color dot was on each person's head, but also to decide how to meet as a group. When we finished the activity we asked, "Why do you think we did this?" We were impressed with the variety of answers: "to get us to work together, to learn how to communicate without talking, to do something fun that teaches us at the same time," were just a few of the answers we heard. We also had the opportunity to talk about non-verbal cues and how sometimes we communicate a lot without saying a word!