Getting to know activities

Whatever you call it: morning meeting, advisory time, or homeroom, as educators we know that it’s an important start to our students' day. In the middle school classroom, it can be particularly important as it’s a time that can be used to teach necessary life skills like relationship building, self-esteem, grit, etc. Below are 33 of our favorite homeroom ideas that include simple and fun activities that’ll not only get your students excited for the day ahead, but will also foster a strong…

Questions that move beyond, what's your favorite color, food, etc. REALLY get to know your students with this fun and thought provoking questions. Could be used in several ways:1. Students draw a number and answer the corresponding question2. Ask all students the same question each day and warm-up / check-in prompt3. Divide questions among partners or groups and have students answer each other then introduce one another.3. Inspiration for your own fun activity.

1. Make pair or groups of 3 or 4.2. Each player must have six markers to be placed in each starting point. (dice boxes on the very top of the board game)3. Each player rolls a die. 4. The player will answer a question according to the number of dots on the die.5. The first player who reaches all the finish boxes will be declared as the winner.Edit : I am teaching Japanese students that is why there are some Japanese related questions and words. You can edit these parts for your students…

A get-to-know-you game where players are basically tricked into giving away a certain number of facts about themselves.

Try this fresh get to know you activity for back to school, called "Who's In Your Circles?" Gets students up and moving to find out common interests they share with each other. (Blog post from The Thinker Builder)

A couple weeks ago I was in charge of planning a get to know you game for the youth in our ward. It was for our older girls (12-18) to get...

Getting to Know your students 382952 worksheets by Shermaine Young .Getting to Know your students worksheet Live Worksheets

Encourage gratitude throughout the season with this fun gratitude game! Fill the game with gratitude activities to do all November long.

We recently went to a swimming pool party for my niece, and took her this beach ball game! I bought a cheap beach ball and wrote questions all over it. You toss the ball and whoever catches it, has to answer the question that's under (or near) their right hand pointer finger. We played the question game, then after that we played beach volleyball! Hey! Two games in one, win-win! This was simple and loads of laughs! My sister wanted a list of all of the questions I wrote all over the ball…

After studying the thirteenth article of faith, we can make a list of things that are uplifting and virtuous. Discuss with a parent or leader how you can seek after these things. This is a SUPER easy activity with set up in less than 20 minutes. All you should need is scissors and these printables (obviously the attendees might appreciate a treat to or two though :) and if you choose to use envelopes (but you don't need to) PART ONE: hide the clues PART TWO: make two teams, race to find the…