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Community Building Activities What you choose and/or adapt, depends obviously upon your grade level and content level; please elaborate on these activities as well as continue to add more.

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 * Snowball Activity- students put something unique about themselves on a piece of paper; everyone throws them onto the ground and then grabs another person’s snowball. Students engage themselves by interviewing and trying to guess the unique aspect to a student.
 * Headliner Activity- Write a newspaper headline about someone.
 * People Bingo, see Inquiring Minds, adapt to your unit
 * Think Tac Toes- see example from class, adapt to your unit
 * Students create rules
 * Y Chart for classroom norms or adapt for your own unit
 * Name Plates/borders
 * 2 truths and a lie
 * Toilet Paper sharing- Each student pulls off squares of tp (at least 2, not more than 5). After all the students have their pieces, explain to them that the number of squares they have is the number of things they'll share about themselves.
 * “I connect” (yarn or ball)
 * Dating Game
 * Culture Quilts
 * “I am” poems, or bio poems
 * Introduction letters
 * Value Line, can move into Fold the line, to encourage discussion
 * Step forward, step back
 * Nobody knows…
 * Brainstorm encouraging words (think about nonviolent language)
 * Insider/outsider circle
 * Name Tag picture
 * Artifact and share with the class – something that represents you
 * Theme Song (good for m.s., hs., college) – bring a song that represents you, share with small groups why (and/or written response), then make cds or upload for class them songs
 * Student survey
 * Interviews
 * Line up via age, height, etc.
 * “Quiz” about preconceptions “What car do you think I will drive?”
 * Name Game (Marvelous Melissa, Curious Cathy, Jumping Jasmine)
 * Incorporate Nonverbal ice breakers
 * Fluid groupings to help students learn about each others
 * Bell – ask students to write about each themselves and show personal ideas/opinions
 * Opportunities for individual sharing
 * Morning Meeting activity
 * Graph your likes and interests using “People persons” a body shape they individualize and then use then when graphing
 * Self-portrait with 3 traits about person in background
 * Crest that represents self
 * Notecards
 * Journals
 * Personality Posters
 * Nerf Toss
 * Color Tests
 * Speed Dating
 * Answering a random questions
 * Brown Bag- artifacts, name on bag
 * “What I like about (name) – “have people write what they like about you
 * Facebook profile
 * Spectrum activity
 * Personality Brochure
 * Home visits
 * Summer soccer get together
 * Role Play
 * Community Service
 * Where I'm From Poem