LESSON PLANS
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GAMES AND APPS
Explore an activity that helps students to get to know one another using animal sounds.
Use these fun games to help pupils remember each other's names.
Throw a "Getting to Know You" party on the first day of school.
Introduce yourself to your students and discuss year long objectives. Students also introduce themselves to each other.
Students discuss the ways in which they are similar and different.
Improve students' alphabet recognition and letter-sound associations while learning fellow classmates' names.
Help students develop a sense of self while examining race and diversity.
Foster trust in the classroom through this first day of school activity.
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Students learn to write a formula poem, about a person. This can be adapted to any subject matter.
Use name tags to help you learn students' names.
Students get to know each other through a poetry writing activity.
Week 1: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.
Students learn about group dynamic by creating a group picture.
Children explore an online resource and learn to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic.
Use this vocabulary list with the "Communities" lesson.
Students create postcards that reflect a summer happening. They use a pen name to sign it and the rest of the class has…
Students make baseball cards as a way of getting to know one another.
An activity to encourage your students to interact peacefully in the classroom.
Make a book of self-portraits that you can then use to compare with end of the year portraits.
Use this substitute teacher kit for grades 1-2 that encourages children to explore the world of animals.
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Teach students that learning begins right away in your classroom with a daily opening learning activity.
Students do independent research about a vacation spot and then create a travel brochure describing this location.
