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My favorite classes in school, even up through college, were those that we had a real community going.
These were usually conducted by my favorite teachers, who felt that a classroom was sort of like a family.
They made time to make us all feel welcome, safe, and important. I truly felt cared about.
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One of the ways they promoted these feelings was that they
spent some time getting to know us. This also helped build
camaraderie, and developed our classroom “family” and the
positive-caring atmosphere.
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Icebreakers are a perfect way to do this, and are especially
important on the first day of school when students are a bit
nervous and looking at a bunch of strangers. They are quick,
easy and a lot of fun. I not only did them on the first day, but included a simple one each day in the
morning, or at the end of the day for our entire first week of school.
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I even do icebreakers with my college comp classes. I truly believe that if students get to really know
each other, the class is much more interesting and fun, which I believe is conducive to learning, as well as a
great motivational factor.
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Thus, I’m always searching for something new to add to my icebreaker bag of tricks. The M & M or
Skittle Game goes by as many names as there are colors, and can be played in a variety of ways as well.
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You can have students choose 2 or 3 pieces of candy and then announce that they will be sharing
something about themselves. Whatever color of candy that they chose will match a question on the
poster. Go around the room and have students share that information 1 question at a time. As they
share, they get to eat that color candy.
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Remember to let students know in advance not to eat their
candy before it’s their turn to share. Since this may be
extremely difficult to a young child, to expedite things, you
can put one of each color candy in a mini cup on their desks.
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Tell students that they’re going to share the red candy
question and then have everyone eat the red one. As soon as the first person shares then the next one
goes, til everyone has shared about that color question. Remind students that you have limited time and
to keep their answers short. Most of the questions that I’ve thought of can be answered with one or two
words. Teachers need to keep things moving.
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If you have a large class, and don’t have enough time to share all of the questions, you can tell your
students to pick out their favorite flavor or color and then answer that question.
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I’ve included several question options for you to choose from, as well as a blank color copy of the poster to
make up your own questions. Remember to keep questions simple, easy to answer, not embarrassing or
intrusive, and something that would be easy and fun for children to share about themselves.
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As a writing option, I’ve included a blank black and white copy. You can run these off and have students
color their candies, and then fill in the answers to the questions that you read. For sharing time, they can
look at their papers and choose one or two that they want to read and share with their classmates.
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