Unique & United: Students Rebuild 2026
Our school participated in the Students Rebuild initiative two years ago for the first time and I found it to be a wonderful opportunity to integrate picture books and artivism into our thinking. This year's theme "Unique & United" spoke to my heart. This would be a wonderful way to explore identity and community while creating and communicating with each other to raise funds for non-profits. (Through this organization, with every piece of student work that is created, $5 is donated to a non-profit). While the culminating project (shoe creation) came from the Students Rebuild resources , the opening activities and read alouds were designed by myself and my colleagues. We began with a read aloud. These books celebrate our unique selves. Students were then tasked with creating a self portrait. They could draw themselves as a Lego mini-fig or build a self-portrait with Legos. I was surprised that so many chose the drawing option - I thought for SURE Legos would be an o...