

Remote learning is having a detrimental impact on the mental health of our students and impacting their social and emotional learning learning. What are your favorite active icebreakers for the classroom? We’d love to hear in the comments.How to Maintain Relationships via Distance Learningīefore we jump into our list, let’s talk about relationships. They have three chances to guess who started the motion. The student in the hallway returns to the room and goes to the center of the circle. While out of the room, another students is chosen to “start the motion.” The selected student begins to move slowly while the rest of the students in the circle begin to follow along. One student leaves the room for a moment. Topic examples might be “I love wearing uniforms to school,” or “I believe cats are better than dogs.” 7. Then the teacher reads a statement and students move to the corner of their room that represents their opinion on the topic. Students should start in the middle of the room or in their seats. Label four corners of the room: Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree. This really gets students moving and opening up while learning names of their classmates. One at a time, each students says their name and accompanies it with a physical motion. This is a fun and active way to get to know everyone’s name. Plus, it’s good to share both positives and negatives. It’s a good way to get a quick read on your students. Your thorn = something about summer vacation that was less than ideal.

Your rose = your BEST past of summer vacation. This is a simple way to recap a summer vacation, weekend, or event at school.

This is a super fast way to take note of your students interests.

Much like musical chairs, whoever doesn’t have a spot goes in the middle and “ALL MY FRIENDS…” starts all over again. Goldish crackers, pizza, roller blading… ANYTHING! Any student who also enjoys the same thing as you has to switch a spot with another person in the circle. Stand in the middle and say “ALL MY FRIENDS LIKE….” and fill in the blank with anything you enjoy. Start by having your students form a circle. Use the chant as a tool to call students in for recess, a call and response to signify quiet time or even just for fun! 3. Have your students create a class chant! Not only does this instantly bring the group together, it also gives you a preview as to the unique personalities you’ll be seeing all year. Instead, keep them in the classroom so students can reference them when they need a pick-me-up. Have students sit in a circle to open and read. Aim… FIRE!! Watch the positivity fly across the room both figuratively and literally. They then crumple up their own sheet to make a “positive snowball.” Ready…. Students write a positive quote, word of encouragement, or positive picture (for differentiated purposes) on a white piece of paper.
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You can use these along with our Free Printable Icebreaker Fish to let your students “fish” for the game they want to play. Jessica is a Chicago-area educator and improv instructor.īelow, Joe and Jessica shared some of their favorite active icebreakers to use with their students. Joe is a self-described unconventional teacher, and he strongly encourages thinking outside the box when it comes to teaching. Join our Facebook Live event this week to see some of these icebreakers in action, courtesy of Joe Dombrowski and Jessica Rogers. It doesn’t matter what time of year it is, active icebreakers are always a good idea.
