As a homework assignment, ask students to bring from home one photo of themselves; the photo can be recent or a childhood photo. Combine the brief bio and photo in a hallway display that parents will love to see at and open house. Name Creatures Each student folds a large piece of construction paper in half the long way and places it on the desk.
With the fold nearest them the open part on top , students then write their names in very large letters so that their names stretch across the entire paper. Children with short names should leave larger spaces between the letters in their names. Then students outline the letters of their name with a pencil, making sure not to bring the outlines all the way to the bottom or fold of the paper.
When they are done outlining, they cut along the outline and then unfold their name to create a unique "name creature. They present their creatures to the class and explain what their creatures represent.
Jean Carmody, P. Scavenger Hunt Create a list of scavenger hunt questions that relate to the classroom environment. Those questions might include. The questions should challenge students to be good observers of the classroom environment.
This activity helps familiarize young students with the classroom while giving teachers the opportunity to observe which students can read questions with no problem, who writes without assistance, who takes charge and gets to work, who holds back and waits for help, and more. Search Search. Newsletter Sign Up. Teaching Gratitude with All the World.
Search form Search. Icebreakers Volume 6: Get to Know Your Classmates Activities Thanks to Education World readers, we now have an archive of more than unique getting-to-know-you activities for the first days of school. Still looking for more ideas? Don't forget our archive of more than icebreaker activities. Icebreakers Below you will find more than a dozen icebreakers contributed by our readers. Melissa Kowalski, Schaumburg School District 54, Schaumburg, Illinois Time Capsule Create and have students fill out a "time capsule" questionnaire with questions that ask about students' interests, such as favorite bands, colors, or foods; best friends; and so on.
Then the teacher will give the following, or similar, instructions for students to follow: If you traveled this summer, stand up. If you have a brother, sit down. If you are the youngest of all the children in your family, stand up.
If you own a pet, sit down. If you have a sister, stand up. If your family owns a computer, sit down. If you live in an apartment, stand up. If this is your first year in this school, sit down. Fill in the blank with your grade; all students will stand. If you were kissed by someone this morning, sit down. Rene Masden, Sixth District Elementary School, Covington, Kentucky Thanks for the Memories Postcard The teacher might begin this activity by drawing on one side of a 4- by 6-inch unlined white index card an illustration of a fond memory of the summer vacation just completed.
For example: "Angie's wearing a white shirt, white shirt, white shirt; Angie's wearing a white shirt All day long. Jan Troy, Lincolnwood School, Evanston, Illinois Two Truths and a Dream The teacher models the activity by telling two things that are true about herself or himself and one thing that is a dream -- one thing that she or he wishes was true but is not!
Jacqueline Petrosky, American School, Lima, Peru Name Creatures Each student folds a large piece of construction paper in half the long way and places it on the desk. Those questions might include How many garbage cans are in the room? How many glue bottles are in the glue basket?
How do you spell my last name? How many apple pictures are in the room? Trending Report Card Comments It's report card time and you face the prospect of writing constructive, insightful, and original comments on a couple dozen report cards or more. Here are positive report card comments for you to use and adapt! Struggling Students? You've reached the end of another grading period, and what could be more daunting than the task of composing insightful, original, and unique comments about every child in your class?
The following positive statements will help you tailor your comments to specific children and highlight their strengths. You can also use our statements to indicate a need for improvement. Turn the words around a bit, and you will transform each into a goal for a child to work toward. Sam cooperates consistently with others becomes Sam needs to cooperate more consistently with others, and Sally uses vivid language in writing may instead read With practice, Sally will learn to use vivid language in her writing.
Make Jan seeks new challenges into a request for parental support by changing it to read Please encourage Jan to seek new challenges. Whether you are tweaking statements from this page or creating original ones, check out our Report Card Thesaurus [see bottom of the page] that contains a list of appropriate adjectives and adverbs.
There you will find the right words to keep your comments fresh and accurate. We have organized our report card comments by category. Read the entire list or click one of the category links below to jump to that list. Behavior The student: cooperates consistently with the teacher and other students.
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Am Posting this to the Forum in case there is anyone who has similar problem and still looking for a way out.. J Birchwood , 17 Nov am. The best alternatives all free that I've found are: Facebook. I admit I was skeptical about magic spells. For me i thought love spell was a movie thing though but I was ready to try anything to get my husband back, which this spell priestessshadi gmail.
Louise , 23 May am. They keep sending these aswell but get my first name wrong. But i still get these emails i wish i could block them shale gmail. Anonymous , 24 Jun am. From what I read, there are some negative comments about Classmates.
But you have to remember this that Classmates is a business just like any other business out to make money. They have to market their product in such a way in order to survive as a company even though they might use deceptive practices at times to do so once in awhile to attract your attention.
You have to be smart enough to know the difference to know what is true and what is not true. I have seen actual real personal photographs and stories of people that I actually knew about when I went to high school forty seven years ago. The photographs that appeared on line and some of the stories did actually came from my old High School friends.
There was no way that Classmates could got a hold of some of these stories on their own. The graduating Class List they had from my old High School was very real and the names on them were real. There are people out there today in this world who like me are really looking for a lot of old friends to reconnect with after so many years.
Some friends of mine might want to reconnect because they feel lonely or depressed and want to be remembered in life.
It is a great tool to build up their self esteem, for depression hurts that mind, body and the spirit. Classmates is definitely a Social Media Networking Site. They also might want to know how well their old friends really made out in life after so many years. I have wisdom, even though I am in my mid 60s, I still have a heart and remember all the good times and bad and all of my High School friends as well, the good and the bad. How often I thought of them and wished how nice it would be if I could talk to them just once more after 47 years.
Here is one way you can protect yourself from getting ripped off on your Credit card by Classmates and not have to worry about anything. When you sign up to classmates for a certain amount of membership time for an All Access Pass, choose the mail in option and lock in the amount that you want to pay for by sending a US Postal Money Order by mail.
It is safe, if for some reason it gets lost or stolen, you will get your money back. On Classmates, you pay for the lenght of time that you want your membership pass to continue, 3 months, 1 yr or 2 years. Then if you want to renew it again, do so by doing the same thing all over again.
If not you are out nothing. Sometimes you have to take a calculated risk in life depending how bad that you want to reach out to talk to or contact someone. So you might have to wait a week to 10 days to get your membership active - Big Deal! You will get on CM eventually ,so be patient and wait. You will protect your own credit card since they do not have access to it.
In my old high school days, some people have looked down upon me as being an under achiever and really thought that I would never amount to anything. My self esteem at that point in time was low. The problem is that they never really knew me very well of what I was capable of in doing or achieving in my life. I really persevered to get up in the world. Forty seven years later, I have graduated from two distinguished Universities and one community college twice after leaving high school.
I have left a valid profile, sincerely truthfull stories and pictures on CM and I have had number of valid hits from people who actually I went to school with me and who remembered me well. I have invited several people to respond, but sometimes on account of personal reasons they may not. To insure integrity in my stories on classmates, I have installed visual cues of events that actually happened to me in High School which the majority of people knew about and remembered.
The real life pictures along with my personal blog on classmates told my true story as well. People from my past reading my stories will know whether I am real or not. I guess the best satisfaction that I could get is if I can just make some one person smile from my past especially the girls who remebered me so as to brighten up their day. I have seen people respond on classmates to my personal requests that I have asked them for to post their stories and pictures.
I know that they are legitimate from the pictures they have posted. I often wondered how many people I may have really inspired when they read my stories. It seems like this old guy who may have felt like a loser in high school in the s because some people looked down upon him as a loser, did quite well as a winner in real life.
The Sin of Pride can be a real threat and problem for it can destroy friendships. Often times I like tone down my stories a bit so that so that I do not try to make some of my friends feel bad. I am out to win my High School friends over by respect and by not trying to judge anyone. My purpose is to win friends and not to lose any friends by making them feel bad. You Reap what you Sow. Life is too Short to Hold Grudges against anyone.
Thank You for Reading my Blog. How disreputable! Joseph D. Costello , 13 Jan am. I started with classmates several months ago. It was free then. Then, I felt it was time to subscribe, so I did for a three month period.
None of the promises of theirs came through. Jan , 17 Mar am. They keep sending me notifications that my classmates are contacting me. Every single name is not in my yearbook and I don't recognize any of them. They're always slightly misspelled. Thank goodness I just went for 3 month trial to see how they operate. One supposed contact was from a class 6 years before mine and said I had contacted him. I just delete their notification now until my subscription runs out.
What a great concept just adulterated for a quick buck. Anonymous Coward , 23 Mar am. Against the Grain , 3 Nov am. Am I really the exception? I have not had any issues with Classmates and I like it. I get emails when someone has viewed my profile. On occasion I get one of those emails, but like me, I think sometimes you view someones profile but quickly remove your visit, so it won't show up when you go to see who looked. I think that is what is happening to some of you.
A lot of people are Not on Facebook that Are on Classmates and it is a fun way to peek at some old high school kids you may and may not remember. I think it is worth the small fee I pay.
Joseph Bennett , 20 Jun pm. I have not upgraded and have gotten a lot of emails saying someone viewed my profile. Well I find out that it shows certain people doing it everyday. I am a little paranoid cause someone is trying to ruin my life so to see this bothers me. What is so interesting on my profile.
Are there explicit photos that I did not give permission to or what. Mary Miller , 10 Sep pm. I managed to get off of classmates a long time ago, after they just kept upping the costs for me to find out "who" if anyone was looking for me. Enter my 40th anniversary. No, in fairness, I am not. I asked to be placed on the do not call list, over 2 weeks ago, and they called again today. I may have to file a suit.
Look, not everyone has 'wonderful' high school memories and not everyone 'hung' with people in their grade. If anything most people hung either with a year ahead or behind, which is what I did. So going and seeing people of my 'grade' is moot for me, anyway. I am pretty angry with Classmates. Sepposam , 12 Jul pm. Emily Gary , 27 Mar pm. Cynthia , 20 Apr am. I was one of those suckers that got sucked in twice just to join.
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