The creative teachers of Cary Academy’s Middle School have been trying all kinds of activities to connect with their advisees, and have their advisees connect with one another.
During Enrichment Ms. Morris took her advisory students on virtual field trips to National Parks across the U.S. Her students chose to explore Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska and Hawai’I Volcanoes National Park in Hawai’i. While practicing social distancing and staying safe at home students still got to immerse themselves in the beautiful scenery. They were able to Kayak on the fjords, climb into a crevasse on a glacier, or fly over a volcano. Claire H. said “I went to Hawai’I and saw the volcanoes!” It was a cool way to spend an Enrichment together.
My advisory did a virtual book club using Zoom. I used break out rooms for small group discussions (both in Advisory and Language Arts for book talks). The share your screen feature allowed my advisory to share our pets with each other. It is also fun to play Kahoot games via Zoom. – Katie Taylor
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I played name that movie theme song with my advisory. I used a compilation of clips on YouTube. (Sadly, it’s since been taken down, but it’d be easy to replicate.) I created a meeting in Teams, shared system audio, and then played the clips. Students typed their guesses in the chat box in Teams, so I could tell who got the correct answer first. It was a lot of fun! – Meredith Stewart
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I was able to get this game, Drawful 2, on my Mac for free last week. It now costs money. It is just like Pictionary or skribbl.io but with funny commentary and unique features. You guess what the people are drawing AND which guesses are the best. Both are scored.
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I did an interesting facts challenge with my advisory. Ask each student to send an interesting fact to you; I included one as well. Plug those into an Excel spreadsheet and then have students fill in the name that corresponds to the fact. Most correct wins. Students try to misdirect their classmates from his/her own fact:
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My advisees love it and we play it as a family as well. Prompts do have to be checked and there is a family-friendly feature. – Matt Koerner
1. Cute idea for advisory that my husband came up with: Everyone come next week with favorite vacation photos/videos/souvenirs to share (that way we can “vacation” together virtually)
2. Played a card game with them last week – teacher holds up a card and calls on one student. That student guesses what number card is next. If they get it right, then the game ends. If they don’t, you draw another card and have the next student guess. Can you get through the entire deck? – Danae Shipp
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I did a few kahoots with my advisory and they liked it. They can either use their phones or split their screens to play.
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Leadership Lessons from Disney
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I also had them show up to advisory with their pets and talk about each pet. They also brought an item that represents one of their hobbies.
Each of my advisees sent me an image of a place they have visited, a place that is meaningful them, or a photograph they took and I put it in a kahoot and we guessed which image was associated with which advisee.
– Lucy Dawson
Hope you’re all doing well. I tried an online Pictionary game that Leslie told me about with my advisory today and they loved it! It’s called “skribbl.io” and here’s the link: https://skribbl.io/. You put your name in and then create a private room by clicking on the blue button. You then can copy the link and email it to your advisees or just post it in Teams. I didn’t do this until I was ready to play the game as I don’t think you can leave it open for too long. Also, don’t refresh while you’re playing the game or you get kicked out!
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The other activity I did was a check-in that we used to do before meetings when I worked at GSK. You state whether you’re mad, sad, glad, or scared. I was at school today because I did the pig heart dissection live with my AMTP students so I started my Advisory meeting saying that I was glad that I was at school but sad that no one else was there. Each of my advisees answered and even elaborated on their feelings.
I also made up a weekly calendar (Tuesday – Monday) that we filled out together with project and assessment due dates like we would do in my classroom.
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I saw this game being played on Jimmy Fallen’s show and it was pretty funny but it looks like it costs $4.99. I’m not sure if that’s every time you play it or once.
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One thing that we did with my family is that we each made up a Kahoot about ourselves that we played. I thought that I could have my advisees complete a short questionnaire about themselves (maybe made in MS Forms?) and then I could turn this into a Kahoot that we all play together. – Allison McCoppin
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