First Day of Class Treat

I gave my students this Angry Bird clip for them to mark the homework assignment. 

I punched 2 large red circles (body), one large white circle (chest), two small white circles (eyes), two very small black circles (eyes), one small yellow heart (beak), one black flower (tail and eyebrows), and one red flower (top feather). Finally, I stamped the word homework and glued it to a large clip.

The students were delighted, asking for the assignment so that they could clip it. Believe me.

First Day Ideas

Name Bingo
On my first day of class, I'm planning to play a Name Bingo with my 16 students.
I'll write their names on separate slips and have them choose 8 names and write them down in their notebooks for the game.


Time Capsule
I'll give the students a worksheet for them to complete with their personal information, likes and dislikes, favorites, and abilities. I'll collect their sheets and read the information (not mentioning their names) for their peers to guess who I'll be referring to.
After that, I'll keep all the sheets in a capsule (a Pringles canister wrapped in foil) and return them back to the students on the last day of class. I wonder if anything will have changed by then.


Storytelling
I chose "The Teacher from the Black Lagoon", by Mike Thaller. There's a fantastic YouTube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRlqN2aZow -  I'll show it to the students in class. Later we'll play Bingo with the book characters.

Page Corner Bookmark

Here's the sample of page corner bookmarks I'll make with my students on the first day of class. I'll bring the templates already cut for them to fold and glue. They'll use theirs to mark the homework page. I hope they like it. 

Instructions can be seen on: http://nheilke.com/blog/?p=2628