TAW - COVID
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
Whose is it Challenges?
Whose is it?
Challenge: Send a picture of one of your favorite possessions, or even a pet, but don’t let it show your identity. It could also be a favorite place in and/or around your house.
Texting/Email Challenges
Challenge: Text birthday wishes to someone every few hours throughout today.
Get as many other people as you can to do it too. Creative use of memes and gifs is appreciated. Never acknowledge that it’s not really their birthday. Send screenshots of one of their humorous replies.
I teamed up with a friend from another school for this one.
Challenge: Get anyone in this school to respond “LOL” to one of your texts.
You can’t tell them beforehand that is the response you are looking for. Take a screenshot of it and send it to me.
Uno Challenge! What is your ONE best piece of advice for living?
Don’t forget to laugh, be silly and dance around the kitchen in your PJ’s drinking a margarita. Your youthful nature will always be your best attribute. So go ahead and shake the sillies out. You might find it helps relieve stress and tension and keeps you sane.
Kelly
What is happening, sport?
What happens when you are challenged to randomly text some people the following:
What's happening, sport?
Challenge: Get anyone in this school to respond, “Who is Gary?” to one of your texts. but you can’t tell them beforehand that is the response you are looking for. Good luck. Take a screenshot of it and send it to me.
You can’t tell them beforehand that is the response you are looking for. Good luck. Take a screenshot of it and send it to me.
Challenge: Text your best friend at this school and simply tell them that they are your best friend.
Video/Picture Challenges
Challenge: How about taking us up on our Iron Chef challenge!
We would love it if you would make a cooking video of yourself showing us your favorite quarantine recipe with whatever food you already have on hand. Go all out getting in touch with your inner Julia Child, and the more you make us laugh, the better!
Here is the video.
Wallace Cooking
Challenge: Make up the perfect cheer to encourage everyone to stay positive during social distancing.
Video yourself and any helpers giving the cheer. Be sure to start off with, “Ready… Ok…”
Here's the video!
West Cheer
Challenge: How long can you go without technology?
Sometime today, turn off your cell phone, tv, and anything electronic. Report back how long you lasted and what it was like (we’re all interested to know, but we can’t bring ourselves to try it!)
Here is the video of what happened:
Sandy Movie
The Masked Singer Challenge! Record yourself singing a song, this can either be audio or video, but don’t let it reveal your identity. Send it to me and I’m going to distribute it to other teachers to let them guess. Wow us or make us laugh with you, either way, the more you put into it, the more points you’ll earn.
Record yourself singing a song, this can either be audio or video, but don’t let it reveal your identity. Make sure you're signed into your school account...who is it?
Here's the video.
Here are the lyrics.
Masked Singer
Challenge: Take a video selfie of yourself recreating the famous scene from The Blair Witch Project.
Start off with, “It’s day 980 of the quarantine…” Keep it under 1 minute and then email me the video or link.
Blair Witch
Challenge: You landed on Club 19!!! Dance. Dance we say.
Dance like you are 19 again. Find some music and dance around right now. Plus we’ll give 1 point for anyone you get to dance with you!
Here is the video!
McKinney Dance
Challenge: Go to your car and make a parody of a ranting video about teachers doing social distancing. You know, the type where you sit in your front seat and give everyone “straight talk.”
Here are the videos from Mr. Vallier and Mr. West.
Ty Rant
West Movie
Challenge: Imitation is the best form of flattery.
Take a video of yourself doing an impersonation of someone at this school, keep it positive, and send it to me. The better the impersonation, the more bonus points. If it makes me laugh, mega bonus points.
Here is the video.
Ty Video
Challenge: Recreate these pictures to the best of your ability, but with yourself playing the role of the hippo
Art/Sign/Building Challenges
3. Sign, sign, everywhere a sign… Make a yard sign and put it in someone’s yard without them seeing you.
Make it sentimental or humorous, big and elaborate or small and sweet, it’s up to you, but we’ll judge your points by how they respond to your drive by signing. Be creative and then be sure to take a picture of it and email it to me.
Jenga Challenge!
Find whatever you can around your home and make as impressive a stack as you can. This could be books, chairs, cards…pets??? It’s up to you, but the more impressive, the more points. (If you have kids, they can help too: that should keep them busy!) When finished, take a picture with yourself in the frame, and send it to me.
Challenge: Fine art is food for the soul.
Paint a picture of the front of our school using only condiments or sauces you already have at your house. Send me a photo. The better the painting, the more points you’ll earn. Also no need to waste it, feel free to use it to dip your lunch or dinner.
Can you guess the artisti?
Who drew it? Artist revealed 5/7/2020
Challenge: Draw a picture of something and someone at this school.
App Challenges
Challenge: Go to Freetetris.org and get to level 25.
Pause the game and take a photo or screenshot and send it to me.
After hours of fun and a high heart rate...I never made it past level 8...I definitely didn't play video games as a kid 🤣🤣
Challenge: Go to morphthing.com and upload a photo of you to morph with a celebrity.
This takes about five minutes to go through their process, but then you get a photo of what it would look like if you and that celebrity had a baby. Who is the staff member that is morphed with the celebrity?
Challenge: Start a game of Words with Friends with someone from this school. Send me a screenshot after you’ve played an amazing word!
Send me a screenshot after you’ve played an amazing word!