This project is for kids, parents, and teachers. We will each make an animated video to talk about our feelings about the new school year. Then, we can share these together and open up a discussion. This will help us feel more comfortable, and have empathy for others and their feelings about everything.

• Make a self portrait – a collage or painting, whatever you like.
• Optional: make another character of somebody else. If you’re a student, the other character might be a teacher, or a friend you’re going to see in school, or whatever.
• If you’re doing school in person with masks, you can put masks on the characters.
• Make a background that shows where school is going to be. If you’re planning remote, maybe it’s a picture of your room with a computer. If in-person school, then a classroom. Or maybe you will be having classes outside?
• Animate your characters with your background to show and tell us some things you’re excited about for school, and some things that make you feel worried or anxious.
• Share the video! Post to our FaceBook page (with parents’ permission of course), or email us to share privately with Google Drive or similar. You can also share in groups with your class, fellow students and fellow teachers. Let’s discuss what we’ve shared. We can empathize with each other, and talk about strategies to deal with the challenges of this upcoming year. We are in this together!