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Back to School Icebreaker Questions and Activities

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Back to School Ice-Breaker Activity cover showing four children with crayons holding drawings of a house, sun and car
Title slide to show when introducing the activity
Step 1 Gallery Walk: students read name quotes hung on the wall while music plays, then one shares feelings when it stops
Teacher directions for the opening movement activity
Step 2 Inside and Outside Circle: partners in two rings ask each other about their names, rotating left every two minutes
Setup steps for a partner-rotation discussion
Question prompts about names: what it means, how students feel about it, nicknames and what they would change it to
Display during partner talk so pairs stay on topic
Alternative Step 2 Interview and Note-Taking: students draw a classmate's name slip, interview them, take notes, then swap
Option for a quieter, written version of Step 2
Interview note-taking sheet: six name questions plus three blanks for students' own questions, with space to record answers
Printable handout for the interview option
Step 3 Let's Write About Our Names: students write an essay titled My Name, All About Me, Where I Come From or their own
Closing writing task to wrap up the activity
Name quote by Lyndon B. Johnson: "When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
Gallery walk poster to print and hang
Latin proverb quote on names: "From our families come our names, but from our virtues come our honors."
Wall poster for the quote walk; sparks talk on family
Shakespeare quote on names: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Hang-up quote card for discussing whether names matter
Attributes
Subject

Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Back To School

Grades

Not Grade Specific

Types

Activities

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
Golden Promise
Rating
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About This Product

This resource is a Back to School Icebreaker Activity.

There are 3 different steps to implementing this icebreaker.

Step 1 - Gallery Walk

Step 2 - Inside and Outside Circle

Step 3 - Let's Write About Our Names

Alternatives and directions for completing each step are included.

What's Included

1 PDF with 22 ready to print pages

Resource Tags

back to school icebreaker August activity fall activities September

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