Getting to Know You

Get your youngsters to open up about themselves with a quick activity. Class members fill in six colorful and patterned boxes with information such as name, birthday, favorite food, and more. 

It's the beginning of the school year, and you want to learn all about each of your pupils. Use this organizer as a tool and one of your first assignments. Individuals fill out each box by completing the sentence starter provided or...

From their strengths and challenges in the classroom, to favorite television shows and genres of books, discover more about your class members in order to enhance your instruction and build stronger relationships throughout the school year.

In this ESL community builder worksheet, students complete the graphic organizer with details about their family and friends as well as their favorite food, movie, place, hobby, sport, and subject.

Send this "About Me" PowerPoint template home with your students to bring and present to class during the first week of school. Step-by-step instructions to create a simple autobiography is laid out withing six slides. Tip: If you would...

The best way to get to know your class is to ask them questions about themselves. Use these silly questions to ask kids what they would rather do, eat, or see. There are 10 questions total, with three possible answers for each question....

Learners explore psychology by writing about themselves. In this personality lesson, students answer a list of questions that help analyze their own traits and history. Learners create a personal "All About Me" book which they share with...

Students write about one another through the questions provided in the "getting to know you" student survey activity. They then design a graphic organizer to graph similarities and differences of themselves and fellow classmates. Finally...

Identify the unique personal attributes of your class members. Begin by viewing the Visual Thesaurus and discussing displayed attributes associated with famous American leaders. Using these identity maps as models, pupils generate nouns...

Students conduct an interview. In this getting to know you lesson, students develop interview questions and interview a school staff member. Students write a paragraph on what they learned about the staff member, peer edit their...