Last year I had my new 6th graders create their own combined giant 6th grader resume! It was fun and helped us learn about our new students. On poster board they listed the previous schools attended ( even pre-school) under education, the sports or extra curricular activities in which they they participated, their hobbies and passions, awards they had won and so forth. The kids presented it to their new classmates as a way to introduce themselves. The other students said things like "Wow! I went to that pre-schoool" or "I play baseball too." I have done lots of team building games, ( Stepping as a group through a hula-hoop, adverb names as introduction, ( Like I am "Pirouetting Perron. I have Jumping Jesse,and Emphatic Emily, and Circling Cody.) All students stand in a circle, begin with one student, He says "I am Jumping Jesse" who introduces himself while jumping up and down. Then the next says, "Hello Jumping Jesse, ( and they jump), I am Circling Cody" and he walks in a circle. As the game progresses each student must name the previous students add their own "name" and action. The last student ends up naming and copying each movement, they others always help when names are forgotten! Each student picks their own Adverb which also being wiht the same letter of their first name. ). Anyway what other fun games or activites do you open your year with? If you are a person who loops or teaches multi-age what do you do to begin the year without repeating the same old stuff? Tena
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