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Sundays are Good for Your Soul

Ruth Ayres

I love Sundays. (You know, I could say this about almost any day of the week.) The reason I love Sundays is because they slow down a little, at least around my house. We tend to stay home a little more on Sundays than the rest of the week. So I’ve been thinking how to make Sundays good for the soul here on Two Writing Teachers. Like most new ideas, it’ll probably take a few weeks of experimenting, but I’d like to share projects, ideas, images, or blog posts that I find inspiring. Things I think, Oh, that’s cool! Now it doesn’t mean I’m going to do all of these things, it just means the thought of Oh, that’s cool! skipped through my brain and I decided to share it with you on Sunday because I find it good for my soul and maybe you will too.

Check out Kelli Crowe’s idea for a time capsule. There are a couple of twists on the whole bury it and let it sit for several decades tradition. My colleague, Tammy Hess, set up a time capsule for her 7th graders every year. They put a photo +  their answers to several questions in a time capsule during the first week of school and opened  it during the last. The kids loved to see how much they changed in a few short months. My husband and I were going through our basement and found a time capsule we put together during the week of our marriage. It was mostly of magazines and newspapers, showing what was happening in the world at the time. I like the idea of zooming in on our family to create a unique piece of history.

Have you ever created a time capsule? Are you considering it? Please share your thoughts!

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7 thoughts on “Sundays are Good for Your Soul”

  1. Can’t wait to see more Sundays for the soul–I like the idea of weekly bits of inspiration, positive things to share, etc. It’ll be a great way to head into each new week at school.

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  4. I do a “time capsule” of sorts, though not a physical one! It’s just a year one! I have folders for each child, and throughout the year, put pieces of their work in the folders. At the beginning of school year, the kids draw themselves on the first day of school, and write their first and last name. I keep a handwritng sample, a chart where they write the numbers to 100, a paper where they write the upper and lower case alphabet letters, the first book they made, and the kindergarten word wall words. I do these same activities (with a much longer word wall list!) again at the end of the year. The kids are totally amazed at the end of the year to see the improvement they have made. Some the students say “I didn’t write like that!”. The folder goes home with the kids at the end of the school year. I know parents really appreciate seeing the growth their child has made in 1st grade!

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  5. This would be such a wonderful thing to do with my sixth graders at the beginning of the year – they change so much in this first year of middle school, that it would be very cool to de-capsule at the end of the year and take a sort of measure of the change .

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  6. I created a time capsule when I was about ten years old (about fifty years ago) I put it in a Skippy peanut butter jar and buried it next to a creek. I filled it with newspaper ads (showing fashion) and articles and a penny and maybe a couple of little toys. I don’t remember what all I included, only that it was in a fragile container (glass with a metal lid) and buried in a high risk place (for breakage during a flood and rust to dissolve the metal lid of the jar.) Odd decision making, in retrospect. I seriously doubt that any part of it survived longer than a few months. Today a kid would probably put it in a plastic food storage container. My mom would have had a fit if I’d taken a piece of her Tupperware! Interesting idea to do with kids. When I taught high school I had kids write themselves letters that I would send a few years after they graduated, but a time capsule adds dimension to it. I like it!

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