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		<title>Best of the Icebreakers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you'll find the perfect idea here for your first day of school. If not, be sure to check out more than 100 additional ideas that have been submitted over the years to our Icebreaker Activities Archive.


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		<title>Icebreakers: Volume 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers were sharing favorite activities they do with their students during the first days of a new school year.


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		<title>Icebreakers: Volume 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...


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		<title>Icebreakers: Volume 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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!


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		<title>Icebreakers: Volume 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Memory Book is an idea you might introduce on the first day of school -- documenting on the opening page or two some of the icebreaker activities below.


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		<title>Icebreakers 2000: Getting-to-Know-You Activities for the First Days of School</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will you do during those first few days of school? What activities might you do to help you get to know your new students? What activities will help students get to know you and one another? 


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		<description><![CDATA[The kids love it when you remember things about them so I can just read up on them and use my knowledge to talk to them about them and their families. 


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		<description><![CDATA[This wonderful ice breaker, for the first day of class, will help students to look at themselves in relationship to others, and to get to know each other


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