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The selfie activity combines drawing with short personal responses in a phone-themed format. Students assemble their portrait and selected writing pieces, while display headings bring the class contributions together. The JPEG set also includes teacher-response graphics that can accompany the finished work.
A writing activity where students write a bio poem about a person (themselves, a book character, a historical figure, another student, or a parent/sibling) following a fixed pattern, then display it as a banner.
A beginning-of-year icebreaker activity using paper fortune tellers (cootie catchers) with personal get-to-know-you questions.
These are Brag Bag Labels that just need to be printed. The descriptions are editable in case you need to tweak anything to fit your students' needs. This is a great activity to build classroom community.
Facilitating rich student sharing during community circle time builds essential communication skills. Yet prompting deep back-and-forth discussion versus one-word responses from young children tests even veteran teachers.
Fraction Getting To Know You Activity Students create personalized math artworks revealing information about themselves in an interactive back-to-school activity.
The Get to Know Me activity invites personal responses about hobbies, favorite things and personal information. Use it as an opening-week introduction, then offer partner sharing or a voluntary class discussion. You can keep responses in a portfolio or use them for a display; choose a format that respects what students want to share.
Getting to Know Students Activity: What's In a Name? This engaging teaching resource is designed to foster a sense of community within your classroom.
Add your due date and any class requirements to the labels, then attach them to paper lunch bags. Invite each student to explain how their chosen objects represent an interest, talent or favorite thing.
My Favorites A to Z: A First Week of School Resource "My Favorites A to Z" is a teaching resource designed to enhance the first week of school experience for both teachers and students.
The open writing template lets students choose what to share about themselves rather than work through a fixed list of questions. Add a title and byline, then use the photo square to personalize the page. The teacher directions suggest collecting the pieces into a class book, using the printable pages.
A self-reflection, back-to-school get-to-know-you activity ('My Summer Selfie') in which students share a 'small moment' about themselves, aimed at building social skills when meeting a new group.
Combine coordinate-graphing practice with an SEL/identity get-to-know-you activity.
What we tell ourselves can leave a powerful impact on our self-esteem and potential. I love these personal affirmation pages so students can tailor what they want to be or what positive messages they want to repeat to themselves daily, or…
A beginning-of-year preschool/kindergarten writing center kit that helps students learn about themselves and each other while building writing skills and vocabulary.
A back-to-school craft/reflection activity where students record personal facts and preferences at the start of the year, fold them into a paper time capsule, and open it later.
Selfie of the Week (Redefining Star of the Week) There's a new take on interactive student participation with our Selfie of the Week.
The "This is Me" Editable Class Book is an engaging literacy activity perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 3. This resource makes for an excellent " All About Me " exercise or a back-to-school themed activity, encouraging…
A back-to-school 'time capsule' activity where students record facts about themselves and the current times at the start of the school year, to be reopened and compared at the end of the year.
A Shoe About You is a perfect hands-on back to school artistic "get to know you" activity. It includes: * 5 different printable and editable "design by code" student shoe templates * key * teacher guide * A Shoe About You lettering to use when displaying finished shoes. The printable templates are divided into sections and students…
A published activity book of icebreaker games/activities for group settings (classrooms, clubs, extracurricular activities, workshops) to help participants get comfortable and build group unity.
Help students get to know classmates and build classroom community through a friendship-themed scavenger-hunt bingo activity, provided in two grade-band versions.
A Halloween-themed data/glyph activity that teaches students to represent personal facts about themselves non-verbally through symbolic pumpkin drawings (a 'glyph').
About Me Apple Activity : A Unique Introduction Tool For Students The About Me Apple Activity is a unique and effective resource designed for student introductions at the start of a new school year.