Getting to Know You Activities. Every teacher has his or her favorite getting to know you activities.
Following are a few of EdWorld's picks. Why not explore a few you may not have tried before? Let's jump right into our first circle activity. My name is _____, and if I were an animal I'd be a _____ because.... I demonstrate for my students: "My name is Mr. Then I give the students a little time to think about what animals they might like to be -- and why. Next, I ask the kids to draw themselves as their animals, leaving space at the bottom of the drawing for their first writing assignment. As I call on students during the day, I always repeat their names -- and their animals!
We are all unique! Then I use the word in several statements, the last of which is "Each of us is unique. " Next step: Out comes the roll of white mural paper. I start out by writing "Mr. Let's play detective. "My favorite hobby is ________. " "I want to see whether you're good detectives," I tell the students. Fabulous First-Day Ideas. Primary- and intermediate-level teachers offer suggestions for first-day-of-school lesson planning.
Use their clever activities to create an exciting start to the school year. Time Capsule During the first week of school, my second graders make a time capsule. First I ask them to bring an empty paper-towel roll from home. We cover the rolls with construction paper, on which the children draw pictures and write their names. Paper-Bag Sharing About two weeks before school starts, I send my students a letter in which I introduce myself and describe some activities we will share. Class-Created Puzzles Using a large piece of tagboard, I draw as many puzzle pieces as I have students, plus one for myself. –Ellaine Barthelemy, Apple Valley, MN Silly Name Game On the first day, I gather the children in a circle. Mission Statement My kindergarten class works together on the first day to come up with a mission that we strive to accomplish on each day of the school year.
B-Kind! Bulletin Board Layers. Icebreakers Volume 9: My Classmates and Me. Icebreaker activities offer fun ways to get to know your new students -- and for them to get to know one another. Get the year off to a good start with one of the twelve new icebreakers below. Included: Links to our library of more than 100 icebreakers! Have you ever thought of keeping a class scrapbook? Whether students create individual scrapbooks or a single scrapbook that's saved to individual CDs, a class "Memory Book" is a great way for students to create a keepsake of the events of the school year -- one they can look back on and share with others for years to come!
The Memory Book is an idea you might introduce on the first day of school -- documenting on the opening page or two some of the icebreaker activities below. You might also invite parents to send a disposable camera to school with their child's name clearly marked on it. Imagine the fun a 20- or 40-year-old will have looking back at the images, information, and events recorded in the Memory Book! Apple Activity. Back-To-School Book. Back%20to%20School%20Survey. BRILLIANT first class warmer. This is a first.
Reading all these great ideas gave me one. Have not tried it yet but it could be a winner. Please let me know how it turns out! All your eggs in one basket. Elementry upLarge or small groupsNeed several strips of paper for each student.Aim information gathering and presenting Students write down infoormation about themselves on seperate strips of paper (eg. maried, ... university, tennis... etc) S's scrunch the strips of paper into eggs. Part II Students are then given a name of a fellow student {C} (eg. the person sitting opposite them.) This is a first. Acrostic_Poem. Worksheet - Getting to Know You. Sara introduces herself.