Speech Bubbles

Hi Everyone!

It's been  a crazy week.  I have been trying to get so much done with my friends before our spring break.  We have a four day week starting tomorrow, and then off for a week.  Sooooo excited for some time off.  Although, I will be bringing home my third quarter assessments to grade.  Hoping I am able to get them done over the next four days so I don't have to.  We'll see.

Do you remember a post I wrote about one of my friends who had a serious accident?   Well, my friend is still in the hospital and may be for a while.  I had my class make get well cards.  They came out great.  I mailed them off and got a lovely email from my friend's mother thanking us all.  However, I am hearing that my friend is a bit sad about being in the hospital for so long.  So, what else could we do?

I decided to have my friends make a joke book.  They all either wrote their own joke or wrote down their favorite joke.  Then, I took lots of pictures like these, without the yellow smiley faces of course!  I do wish you could see the faces they were making.  They were so funny!

I printed out a bunch of them on regular printer paper.  Then, I gave them to my friends who used thin Sharpies to write the jokes on the bubbles.  The bubbles were just large pieces of white oak tag.  I traced the speech bubble and made a dark outline.  I did have to tape a web of clear and white rulers on the back so they would stand up when my friends held them.  We had a lot of fun taking the pictures.  The joke book came out great. We made a front and back cover, which I laminated and then bound the book.   I also left some blank pages in the back of the book for my friends to write some cheery get well notes.

Then, I got to thinking about what else we could do with these pictures.  Hmmmm. . . .  okay, I'm drawing a total blank!  So, I'm coming to you.  What else could I do with these pictures?