Grab your face shot by the sign in the table. On the back of your picture please write and finish the following sentences:
1. My name is (Full Name)
2. My favorite color is....
3. My father (or father-figure)supported my education by...
4. My best friend is....
After the activity please post what you liked/disliked about the activity, suggestions, questions, and if it is something you feel you can do with your advisory. Thanks for participating!- Ms. Mendez
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ReplyDeleteMy full name is Julio J. Sequeira.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite color is green.
My father-figure (mom) supported my education by allowing me to choose my major and paying for private lesson.
My best friends are Chris from elementary school and Jimmy from middle school.
How cool! What a fun activity! Yes! First week of school 6th grade this activity is great. I will do this next year for sure!
ReplyDeleteEasy way to get everyone talking and sharing more about themselves. Excellent idea that easily translates in class.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this activity! For the library, I would incorporate a question about students' favorite books.
ReplyDeletePic-Pic-Trade: Name when used as an advisory activity.
ReplyDeleteQuiz-Quiz-Trade: Name when used as a content activity.
Play music to signal beginning of movement. Stop music, have them find a partner and give high 5. State who begins first, time each round (today I was giving 1minute). At end play music again to signal new round. You can do as many rounds as appropriate.
For advisory: You choose the prompts, and I recommend for you to participate as well. It is manageable to participate and monitor time. They introduce the person they get and share their responses and then trade at the end.
For content: Have students create problems or questions on one side, and the answer/response on the other side. They quiz each other and trade at the end.
(I usually take face shots of my students, but I got your pictures from a CD with our yearbook/ID pictures, which is a source you can use to find pictures of your students).
Great job by Mendez!
ReplyDeleteVery useful strategy. I have been incorporating it in my advisory and history content classes.
ReplyDelete1. Full name: Roberto Ramos
ReplyDelete2. My Fav color: Blue
3. My father (or father-figure)supported my education by: mom supported me made sure I went to school
4. My best friend is: friend of the friendless
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DeleteCool Activity! I just would change it to mothers because unfortunately so many of our students come from single parent homes and most are mothers. On the other hand, this activity with the boys would provide a lot of information.
DeleteFriend of the friendless in from an episode of "I Love Lucy"
Is...sorry typo
DeleteThis was a good community builder for staff. I wish we could do more community builders during our staff meetings to build positive relationships. As a new teacher at YOKA and a 1st year, I know how critical relationships are to surviving and know that I need to reach out more to other staff. Trying to make the next :) hour!
ReplyDeleteI really liked this activity because it is a great ice-breaker to do with new students at the beginning of the school year or advisory, but by changing some questions.
ReplyDeleteYou can also play this by having students use their ID, and having students remember what the other person said, which sometimes changes by the time students get to the 3rd person. Then you can just have students confirm what was said.
The only thing I would have changed about this activity is question number 3 because not all of us, nor some of the students have had a father figure in their life.
I change the questions ever so often. The activity itself I do every other month, so multiple times throughout the year during advisory. Since I have done it since my advisory was in 6th grade they know the drill by now. :)
DeleteSo yes, come up with as many question you can for every time you do it. Helps them learn something new about each other every time.
Very helpful strategy, I will use it in my advisory. Great job Ms. Mendez!
ReplyDeleteThis was a great share out of a Kagan strategy. I had never see it demonstrated before, but what a great ice breaker/inclusion activity! Thanks Ms. Mendez!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this activity. It was a great opportunity for me to meet and get know other staffs i haven't talked to or met. Will definitely use this activity. Thank you, Ms.Mendez!
ReplyDeleteI loved this activity, it was nice to get up and mover around, and i learned things about coworkers when I thought i had already known them so well. I would definitely use this with an advisory class.
ReplyDeleteI liked the third question about what role your father played in your education. It's not a typical question and it requires a response that involves more thought. For my students, I like to ask questions that require students to elaborate and think about their responses.
ReplyDeleteGrab your face shot by the sign in the table. On the back of your picture please write and finish the following sentences:
ReplyDelete1. My name is Teresa Jean Hernandez
2. My favorite color is green
3. My father (or father-figure)supported my education by instilling high expectations for myself at a young age. Education was always valued, respect was crucial and helping others was my responsibility.
4. My best friend is Heidi Seidell. We became friends when we both lived in San Francisco, and now we are neighbors in LA!
I really enjoyed this activity and I definitely want to use this at the beginning of the school year next year. I liked for advisory, the idea of printing the faces of my students so that we can put a face to the name of the student we are introducing.
ReplyDelete1. My name is Greg Namba
ReplyDelete2. My favorite color is grey
3. My father supported my education by allowing me to discover for myself what it is that I wanted to pursue.
4. My best friend is loyal.
I like this activity, because it seems like it could be really interactive and super enlightening in understanding some things about students that we might not be aware of. I can see this being very applicable to students in 7th and 8th grades, since they'll already have developed strong ties with classmates from previous years.
Great activity. I really liked it; it's quite interactive and simple, which makes it very inclusive and interesting for students to get to know each other better.
ReplyDelete1. My name is (Full Name) Kristen Williams
ReplyDelete2. My favorite color is…. Purple
3. My father (or father-figure)supported my education by… Going Away and not poisoning me further
4. My best friend is…. Rachel Namm
1. My name is (Full Name) Justin James Daza-Ritchie
ReplyDelete2. My favorite color is….Red, or blue, depending on the day.
3. My father (or father-figure)supported my education by… always nagging me that I needed to go to college and being highly educated himself.
4. My best friend is…. My wife, with my dog a close second.
1. My name is Larry Salazar
ReplyDelete2. My favorite color is brown
3. My father (or father-figure)supported my education by being involved in my school activities.
4. My best friend is Steve Ramirez
I really liked how the activity was a great way for the students to learn about each other and the questions can varying depending on the grade and gender of the students.
ReplyDeleteI really liked how we got to impersonate each other. This activity is a good activity to do first day back from a long break in advisory.
ReplyDeleteFrancisco Javier Mendez Cruz
ReplyDeleteMy favorite color is black
My best friend is George
My dad is my figure
My full name is Barry Lane Thomas.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite color is blue.
My father supported my education by his example and discipline.
I have known my best friend Trevin for 20 years; he is like family.
I enjoyed the activity; it provided a creative way to connect with one another.