27 Icebreaker Activities - Get to Know Your Students

Icebreakers and Getting to Know Your Students Classroom Kit

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Getting to know your students - and helping them get to know each other - is one of the most important tasks in the first few days of back-to-school. This complete kit includes all the icebreakers and "getting to know you" activities you'll ever need!

What's Included In This Classroom Kit

27 student icebreaker and getting to know you activities for back to school
Easy to download and print PDFs
Activities that are appropriate for all elementary grade levels
Icebreakers that combine fun group activities with individual academic skills (writing, counting, etc.)
Getting to know you projects that can be used as bulletin boards or classroom decoration
Activities that involve movement, station rotations, and games
Printables are in 8.5" x 11" portrait or landscape for easy reading and copying

Icebreakers Featured In This Classroom Kit

Student Choice: Flat Teacher Choice Board, Design Your Own Coat of Arms, My Future Plans
Games: Getting to Know You Bingo, Getting to Know You Classroom Scoot
Writing: Our First Classroom Book, My Summer Break, The Feature Story Getting to Know You Activity
Group Activities: D-icebreaker, Get to Know You Turn and Talk, Make a Giving Tree Icebreaker

How to Use These Icebreaker Activities

Use these icebreakers and getting to know you activities to:

Help students get to know each other and get to know you
Ease the tension and awkwardness of the first few days with a new class
Help students overcome shyness and integrate easily with classmates
Start building a collaborative classroom culture
Give younger students a head start on developing social-emotional skills
Encourage students to demonstrate kindness, friendship, and good behavior

Icebreakers are not only a great way to build a classroom community, but also to enhance classroom and behavior management.

How to Enhance Behavior Management with Icebreakers

Give students the opportunity to feel "part of" a larger group by sharing information about themselves - help them be invested in a positive and productive environment
Start developing the social-emotional skills like communication, collaboration, and empathy that enhance good behavior and reduce distractions and discipline issues
Use group "getting to know you" activities to set expectations for behavior and adherence to classroom rules and culture