The I Can’t Funeral
Amanda ended her first day of school with an “I Can’t Funeral.”
“This is a stolen treasure that has worked wonders for my class. During my years of college I had to bring in a classroom method that I wanted to use in my class. While browsing the Internet I came upon a true jewel,” she said.
The I Can’t Funeral started with every student thinking of one thing they either did not feel successful in last year, or that often made them think, “I can’t do that.” They each wrote their “I Can’t” on an index card. Then, while playing very sad music, they placed the card in a “funeral box” and said their farewells to their “I Can’ts.” They buried the “I Can’t” funeral box in Amanda’s car trunk.
Amanda informed her students they were burying the words “I Can’t,” and wouldn’t be seeing them again. They would dig up the funeral box at the end of the school year and celebrate how they had conquered their “I Can’ts.”
Amanda said, “The students really enjoyed this, and I assured them each thing they couldn’t do or felt unsure about would be mastered during the school year. It was an awesome day.”
In January Amanda sent a note saying, “My students often ask when we are going to resurrect our ‘I Can’ts!’ . . . I often hear students saying they just conquered their ‘I can’t’ and we high five.”
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