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Get to Know your students' names as quickly as you can! 

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Get to Know your students' names as quickly as you can! 

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Make a positive connection with the parents in the first few weeks. Make that phone call home! 

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Make a positive connection with the parents in the first few weeks. Make that phone call home! 

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I try to learn my students names the first couple of days of school. They tell me their name and an animal that starts with that same letter. It helps me remember names faster, and the kids love it to!

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Morning Meeting throughout the year. This book has great greetings and sharing ideas.

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Create intention EACH DAY to build community within your classroom! Whether is be with Morning Meeting, "getting to know you" activities, etc

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Create intention EACH DAY to build community within your classroom! Whether is be with Morning Meeting, "getting to know you" activities, etc

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I like to send a one-sentence "thing I noticed or liked about you" home with each student on the first day of school.  

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I like to send a one-sentence "thing I noticed or liked about you" home with each student on the first day of school.  

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"ME Bags" bring in 5 things that tell about me.

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"ME Bags" bring in 5 things that tell about me.

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List of their Favorites at the beginning of the year and compare it to the end of the year favorites.

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List of their Favorites at the beginning of the year and compare it to the end of the year favorites.

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Chrysanthemum is a great book to introduce importance of names.  There are a lot of fun activities to do with names!

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Chrysanthemum is a great book to introduce importance of names.  There are a lot of fun activities to do with names!

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"ME Bags" bring in 5 things that tell about me.

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"ME Bags" bring in 5 things that tell about me.

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We create all about me posters to use throughout the year!

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Classroom scavenger hunt to find other classmates they share something in common with. I have a handout with various "find someone who....."

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Each student creates a page about themselves and presents it to the class...the book is bound and becomes a classroom favorite all year long

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Students set a goal or think about the year and play with the playdough-if it turns a color the wish/goal will come true!
http://adayinfirstgrade.com/2013/08/magic-play-dough.html

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I memorize the names and faces of my second graders before open house.

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I memorize the names and faces of my second graders before open house.

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Warm Fuzzy Jar - Students give each other compliments of positive behavior and PATH following and fill a jar of fuzzies to earn a reward.

Bucket Fillers - Students write words of affirmation to each other and place them in each other's buckets.

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Teach and do different types of greetings, ex: handshake.

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Teach and do different types of greetings, ex: handshake.

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Blanket game-
Find a friend who...
Scavenger hunt

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Greet and talk to students when they come in the morning.

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High-five three people before first CORE and say one uplifting comment (can be as simple as "have a good day")

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High-five three people before first CORE and say one uplifting comment (can be as simple as "have a good day")

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Student scavenger hunt looking for alike interests. Try to encourage students to connect with as many DIFFERENT classmates as possible.

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Student scavenger hunt looking for alike interests. Try to encourage students to connect with as many DIFFERENT classmates as possible.

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Share Good thing....hard thing from day/week

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Share Good thing....hard thing from day/week

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Mystery Person Activity---Students fill out something interesting about them at open house. They try to guess who the fact belongs to. We even revisit the activity at the end of the year to see how well we know each other!

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All about me sharing. Gives student a chance to share their story.

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All about me sharing. Gives student a chance to share their story.

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Students create their own creative writing prompts for the week. They feel empowered and their classmates go to them for advice. 

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Students create their own creative writing prompts for the week. They feel empowered and their classmates go to them for advice. 

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Monday, post weekend sharing. Good/Bad...

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Monday, post weekend sharing. Good/Bad...

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Get the kids talking to each other instead of just jumping around and looking at a screen

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Sharing:  Every child has a set day to share.  After long weekends or breaks we designate "Weekend Update" for student and teacher to share. 

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Sharing:  Every child has a set day to share.  After long weekends or breaks we designate "Weekend Update" for student and teacher to share. 

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Morning meeting is a good way to get kids to share about themselves as well as the teacher. Building that classroom community. 

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Morning meeting is a good way to get kids to share about themselves as well as the teacher. Building that classroom community. 

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Having students check in with me daily when they get breakfast/or opt out of breakfast. I am able to tell how students day is starting by doing a quick check with each one every morning.

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Students have a Q and A with the teacher right away on the first day of school.

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Morning meeting and allowing students to have time to get to know each other.

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Spending time every morning to connect with students and allowing students to connect with each other.

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Getting to know you beach ball., mingle mingle games where the kids walk around until the music stops and I give them a question to answer, I made a get to know you board game for the first week of school....Engerizer books written by Carl Olson are a great resource and morning meetings are a great way to start the day. 

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Getting to know you beach ball., mingle mingle games where the kids walk around until the music stops and I give them a question to answer, I made a get to know you board game for the first week of school....Engerizer books written by Carl Olson are a great resource and morning meetings are a great way to start the day. 

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Short partner/groups of 3 games and activities to do throughout the day instead of Brain Breaks

**Cards- order cards as a table group or carpet color…with no talking, get all of the red cards or black cards at your table.

**Roll ball or marbles off table into a large bucket together as a group

**Frog Break…hide 1-4ish frogs in the classroom in the morning and take a frog break to search for them

**Tap large ball back and forth to each other- 2-4 kids

**Toss stuffed animal to the same person...in small group… see if you can toss 2 at a time.

**Letter Island-  lay out magnetic letters and students need to work together to walk to the island and collect the letters needed to build certain names or words

**Bounce ping pong balls to each other

SMART movement…popcorn, superman, left/right brain

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Sharing Ball (see pic in 3rd grade)...toss ball with specific questions or toss a regular ball and students share one thing they did over the weekend/last night/etc.

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Sharing Ball (see pic in 3rd grade)...toss ball with specific questions or toss a regular ball and students share one thing they did over the weekend/last night/etc.

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every student writes their name and a fact about themselves on a piece of paper, ball it up and throw it across the room. Each student picks up one piece of paper and shares the fact about the other person out loud with the class. The person that shared gets to throw that into the recycling can that is in the middle of the room.

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Play Would you Rather and have students move to different parts of the rug based on their answer.  Students can chat with each other about why they chose that choice.

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Each student brings in a family picture to display on the class board.

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I let my students actually TALK during breakfast and do purposeful play with manipulatives. This gives them TIME to talk with their peers and then I get to walk around and chat with them for an extended period of time. They get time to play and be authentic with their peers before the day starts.