For the last few days, our homework assignment has been to complete some reflections about the Sukkah building process (later to be put onto each student’s blog).  Thus far, the responses have been fairly decent.  The one exception is that of the last question I ask: include 3 photos of the day.  It is strange; we have a few students bring a camera outside to take photos, but hardly any students complete that part of the assignment.  I figured it was because we struggled with asking for help from others…so we practiced.

Today, we spent some time playing the game Go Fish.  In this game, you ask everyone else in your group if they have something you need.  Pretty simple concept, right?  At the end of our game, we briefly discussed why we played the game and before I could even explain why…some of the students had it nailed down.  “We need to do a better job asking each other for photos” was the general shout-out in class.

Hopefully two decks of cards and a good time were enough to teach the lesson of ask for help (especially if your group mates have the information you need).