Getting to Know You Personal Shield Class Time Capsule Classmate Venn Diagrams This Thing Tells a Story Question Hat Spreading Kindness Name Card Appreciation Group Collage 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10
Fillers Add On Park It Picnic Word Chain Hidden Leader Silent Corners Animal Draw Number Drawings Monster Sign Me Observation Station Easy Poetry Formats Chalkboard Hangman Quick Word Scramble Words Within a Word Make a Word World Connection Shoe Relay How Good is your Memory? Think, Think, Think Adventure Mystery Word Changing Chairs Connect the Dots Mingle
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Curriculum-Based Starters (General) KWL Concentric Circles Venn Diagrams True or False Tennis Doubles 2-3-4 Review Spider Basketball Alphabet Review Time Bomb Magic Moments Question Relay Heart Attack Content Tic-Tac-To Bingo Curriculum-Based Starters (Math) Graphing Magic Math Machine Mental Math Scramble Closest Patterns Silent Math Relay Heading Toward 100 Finger War
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Curriculum-Based Starters (Language Arts) Eight 52 Team Spell 53 Calming Starters A Note about Calming Starters Stretches/Yoga Music Story Read Aloud Drop Everything and Read Storytelling Quick Creative Writing Silent Ball The Silent Six
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Telephone Slow Motion Add on to My Story Secret Message Appendix of Reproducibles Personal Shield Class Time Capsule Sign Me! Bingo
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Personal Shield
AGES FORMAT MATERIALS NEEDED DURATION PREPARATION REQUIRED 5-11 Individual For each student: A photocopy of a shield p. 65, scissors and colored pencils 20-30 minutes Make your own shield as an example
DESCRIPTION 1. Tell the students that everyone is going to do an activity to get to know each other better. 2. Ask them to help you brainstorm what types of information they might want to share: a. Hobbies/sports they like b. Family members c. Favorite