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This idea is called Talk Time and is a good 1st Day of School activity to get students talking
An excellent Art lesson for the first day of school called My Favorite Things
This lesson idea is on School Life and is called "Gremlins go to School"
A good Back To School lesson involving the Evaluation of Poems
This is a great idea for a beginning and end of school lesson - using a Time Capsule to demonstrate students' learning
A good first day of school idea for gathering Students' Birthdays and teaching Bar Graphs too
"Me Bags" is the name of this first day of school idea for Getting to Know Each Other
Here's an idea for a first day of school "Class Puzzle" that shows each student's importance
This is a good idea for a beginning of the school year review in any subject

In this idea students Write Letters to themselves at the beginning of the year and read them at the end
Here's a Back To School activity to learn each others' Names to Music
This First Day of School lesson focuses on Boosting Self-Esteem
This "Getting To Know You" activity idea is good for the First Day of School
Students Interview each other in this First Day of School idea
Here's another version of the "Me Bags" idea for the First Day of School
This is a brief "Welcome To School" activity idea
This "Cubicle Reading and Writing" lesson is appropriate for Back To School time
Here are some songs appropriate for Back To School time
This idea is to help students learn their way around the School on their First Day
This Back To School Ice Breaker idea looks at Classroom Diversity
A good Back to School idea - Me Bags (An Alternate Version)
A great end / beginning of the year lesson involving Writing Letters to next year's students at the end of the year
This is another beginning / end of the year activity called "Memory Book"
This end of the year idea involves creating a "Words of Wisdom" poster for next year's students
A fun first-day journal activity
Start the first week of school off right with this fun idea
A great activity for first-of-year introductions
Here is an idea for an open-house display
A great idea for back to school
These "Me" collages are great for getting to know classmates
A fun group activity for learning about your classmates
This is a fun idea for introducing school staff to students
Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
This heart-warming first day of school idea builds classroom community
Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
Students become familiar with the special characteristics of their classmates with this beginning-of-school idea
This great beginning-of-school idea lets students introduce themselves with a "Box of Me"
This yummy back-to-school Ice Breaker involves M&Ms
A beginning of school musical name plate activity can help students learn each others' names
After this activity, students will be able to recite the names of their classmates in rhythm
Here are some ideas for teaching a good multidisciplinary apple unit
This "Meet the Teacher Day" scavenger hunt and self-portrait activity results in a class quilt.
This first day of school language arts idea uses Miss Nelson is Missing to teach classroom rules.
This clever first day of school idea makes it easy to send student birthday cards
"Getting to Know You with Toilet Paper" is a really cute idea
This scavenger hunt can help you form cooperative groups based on learning styles and interests
In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
Using a video to introduce the rules and the teacher wards off first day laryngitis
In this idea, Social Studies is introduced on the first day by taking a census
This lesson idea organizes first day of school activities around the rules "be kind, be safe, and be your best
Here is an instrument activity with an apple theme
"Three Truths and a Fib" is a funny get-acquainted activity
A classroom map hunt is an ideal idea to acquaint students with the classroom and its procedures
Making a Birthday Bar Graph is an engaging beginning of the year math idea
"Rules Rap" is a new way to present first-day music class instructions
In this fun get-acquainted lesson, students draw a classmate's portrait with chalk
This song idea helps students learn their classmate's names
In this beginning-of-school activity, students match photos of the classroom with a classroom map
This German "Schultuete" idea gives a cultural upgrade to the first day of school "Me Bag"
Here is an excellent classroom mapping lesson that is tailored for students with different abilities
Stellaluna teaches school citizenship in this lesson
This PE lesson introduces the freeze-melt-go protocols and the students as well
Here is a little musical introduction song game idea
In this lesson, students create a weaving using materials that describe them as a person
Creating a family or personal crest is a good way to discuss family values or to learn about classmates
Students write their names with their feet in this name-learning activity
This idea starts out as a beginning-of-the-year bulletin board and ends as a memory book compilation of student writing assignments
You really must start collecting pictures now for this totally awesome end-of-year PowerPoint Party for Parents idea
This is the same idea with a twist -- students make their own presentations
This first day of school "quiz" is a fun "getting to know you" and your expectations activity.
Students make a classroom graph showing how many letters are in each student's name in this first-day math lesson
This lesson answers the question "What are we going to be studying this year?" with props and a guessing game
This is a fun getting acquainted activity using straws
This classmate interview template is an interactive language arts activity and an ice-breaker
In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
This "Get to know ME" test introduces you to your class in a clever way
This kindness exercise promotes acceptance and cooperation throughout the year
This is another name learning activity
These context clues paragraphs show students the cause and effect of good or poor grades
People-Search Bingo is a well-developed getting-acquainted idea
This is a refinement of the M&M getting-acquainted activity
Click here to discover what's inside this W-E-L-C-O-M-E bag idea
Here is some "All About Me" homework
Here is another version of the "Summer in a Can" vacation show-and-tell activity
In this get-acquainted game, students look up creative adjectives to describe themselves
Here students create a booklet about their vacation or summer event
This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
Here ESL students learn to form questions while learning information about their teacher
This Personality Crown idea helps children get to know you and each other
This mystery box activity gets kids excited about learning new things
This "All About ME" box idea comes with a secret note inside
A "Special Me" class book is created here with Kid Pix self-portraits and written personal summaries
This All-About-Me homework project is due on the first day of school
This teacher welcomes students with a Jeopardy game with categories like staff, subjects, supplies, etc.
Here students introduce themselves via a 9-square construction paper ME Quilt
This All-About-Me Scrapbook contains pictures, symbols, journal entry, interests, and expectations
This is an "All About Me" memories and goals book idea
This Personality Sack idea presents the student to his classmates
This Welcome Sack idea warmly presents back-to-school expectations to your students
"Name Game with a Beat" is a musical version of a previous name learning activity
This is a self-introductory PowerPoint presentation idea
WordArt and ClipArt are used in this get-acquainted filler activity idea
This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
Here are 10 educational ownership discussion topics to insure a student's new school year success
This is a fun true/false introduction activity for the first day of school
Here jujubes are the get-acquainted incentive
This idea connects you with your students before school even starts
Here is a "Mighty Mike, Brilliant Brianna, Talented Tamika" name learning game with adjectives idea
Here students share their special "gifts" after reading Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
Buddy Bags and Venn diagrams are used here as get-acquainted tools to compare and contrast students with each other
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