The birthday-lineup activity is a great icebreaker — one worth trying if you have never done it before. So, this year, in addition to the tried-and-true icebreakers you repeat every year, why don’t you try that one too? That one, or one of the ten more icebreaker activities that follow…
Maybe you’ll have students trace their (right!) shoe, cut out the shoe shape, and write a personal goal for the year on it. Students then can decorate their shoes in unique ways, and you can display them on the bulletin board under the headline Starting the Year on the Right Foot!
“For an icebreaker to be used with any grade. Throw out a role of toilet paper and tell the students to take as much as they need. (Don’t tell them what it’s for). After everyone has taken some, have them tear the toilet paper at the perforations. For each square of paper in their possession, they have to share one fact about themselves.”
This is a good demonstration of solubility and the movement of molecules
Students create a keepsake yearbook of memories from the school year about to end.