How's the first day of your Physical Education?
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Introductions – kids tell me about their summers, I tell them about mine. I meet any kids new to the school. I do this for about 5 minutes as soon as the kids walk in the door. I could wait, but I know they are dying to tell me about all of their summer trips, experiences and adventures – and honestly I love hearing about them. Your relationship with your students is what everything else is built on, so spend some time here first.
You could create a slide presentation with some pictures/videos to show the kids some of the trips and adventures that you’ve been on over the summer to help them connect – kids love hearing about your personal life (this might be a good idea especially if you are new to the school)… just keep it short
Note: Feel free to use the presentation linked above, you’ll need to copy it to your Google Drive first. Do this by going to “File” – “Make a Copy” you can then edit the copy in your Google Drive. I can’t grant you access to edit it, since it’s the master copy
If you want to spend a little time on it you could also just create a quick 1 minute video to recap your summer for your students, I recommend checking out the App iMovie (Here’s a tutorial on how to use it). You can see an example video that I made below – although I used a program called Final Cut Pro – you could make something similar with iMovie along the same theme: