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Getting to Know Your Students

Girl leaning on lockers  Get ready for back to school with these printables, activities, and teaching advice. Our icebreakers, classroom introduction lessons, and worksheets will help students and teachers learn about each other and feel more at ease in their new setting. Games, printables, and tips will help you learn and remember students' names. From greeting your students to outlining educational objectives to establishing classroom rules, you'll find the tools you need to prepare for your first day.

First Day of School Resources

Throw a "Getting to Know You" party on the first day of school.

Get ready for your first day of teaching with these ideas on how to show your personality to your students. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable when preparing for back to school.

Extend and enhance children's enjoyment of Curious George's First Day of School with the lesson planning resources in this printable teacher's guide. Activities include journaling, show-and-tell, interviews, and mapmaking.

Get ready for your first day of teaching with these ideas on how to show your personality to your students. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable when preparing for back to school.

Foster trust in the classroom through this first day of school activity.

Learn some general rules about what makes a great teacher. This advice is especially useful for back-to-school and new teachers.

Meeting Your Students

Getting to know your students at the beginning of the year is crucial in establishing a strong teacher-student rapport.

The amount of effort a teacher puts into meeting students is a critical benchmark for most children.

Introduce yourself to your students and discuss year long objectives. Students also introduce themselves to each other.

Send this letter home to parents to help you know your students better.

Use name tags to help you learn students' names.

Improve students' alphabet recognition and letter-sound associations while learning fellow classmates' names.

Use this sheet to help your students get to know each other.

Have your students complete the sentences in this sheet and get an introduction to each student.

 

Students discuss the ways in which they are similar and different.

Help students develop a sense of self while examining race and diversity.

Make a book of self-portraits that you can then use to compare with end of the year portraits.

Students get to know each other through a poetry writing activity.

Build classroom community while creating your first classroom book.

Icebreakers

Students create a personal mandala to illustrate how they see themselves.

Explore an activity that helps students to get to know one another using animal sounds.

A bingo game will help your students (and you) get to know each other better.

Use these fun games to help students remember each other's names.

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