HAPPY NEW ....... SCHOOL YEAR !

 New school year! New school for many students and teachers! New friends! New teachers! New books! Make a new start! Set off with new ideas!

 On the first day you can make nametags! There are plenty of free printable patterns you can find if you browse the web,or you can use the children's own designs and ideas. You can play with them to introduce each other and break the ice! Don't forget to include your own, the "teacher's name tag" !

• Make scrabble combinations or crosswords
• Put them in alphabetical order
• Count or match letters
• Play a name bingo
• Find an adjective to go with the names and point out the student's positive traits eg. Justin the brave
• Shuffle and give each student one, face down. When time starts the students need to take the tag back to the student it belongs to. 
• For more advanced students: 

           Put the name in the center of the card.
           In the upper left corner, write four things that you like to do.
           In the upper right corner, write your four favorite singers or  
           groups.
           In the lower left corner, write your four favorite movies.
           In the lower right corner, write four adjectives that describe
            you.
When everyone finishes, have them mingle with the group for a few minutes. Without talking, they are to read the upper left corner of the other group members' cards. When time is up, they are to find one or two people who are most like them and visit for a few minutes. When time is up, they are to mingle again reading the upper right corner of the other group members' cards. They then find the one or two people most like them and visit. Repeat with the lower left corner and lower right corner information.
To make sure everyone visits with several people, you could implement a rule that no two people can be in the same group more than once.

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You can also make a poster to introduce the classroom rules! Make it fun and creative so as not to scare the students away! You might include the following:

Hands up! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Shout! No! No! No!

Help! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Sleep! No! No! No!

Eat! No! No! No!

Speak in English! Yes! Yes! Yes!

 

Poster made by the students of  E' Class of the Primary School of Thermi 2011