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Thinking sheet · Imagine and invent
Upside-Down Day
Today everything is the opposite. Draw your school on Upside-Down Day and write its new rules.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Imagine and invent
- Kids practice
- opposites, flexible thinking, humor in writing
What kids do
“Breakfast for dinner, teachers are students, rain falls up. What else flips?”
- My school on Upside-Down Day
- Three upside-down rules
- The best and worst thing about Upside-Down Day:
How to run it
- Warm up with opposites: hot/cold, up/down, loud/quiet.
- Kids can draw people walking on the ceiling.
- Read the rules aloud: the silliest ones get the biggest laughs.
Talk about it
- Which rule would you keep forever?
- What would be really hard on Upside-Down Day?
- Why do opposites make things funny?
Take it further
Hold a real (mini) Upside-Down Day: lunch first, wear shirts backward.
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