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Activities for: Summer holiday

reflections Getting to know you Being a good friend

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Back to School Activities

This pack includes worksheets and activities for:

* Summer holiday reflections *

* Getting to know you *

* Being a good friend *

By Melinda Crean of

Top Notch Teaching

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Introduction 4

Summer holiday reflections 5

Ultimate holiday destination 6

Places you went during the summer holidays 7

10 things I did during the summer holidays 8

Summer holiday dream 9

A summer alphabet 10

Send a postcard 11

Getting to know you 12

Self portrait 13

Comparing characters 14

Unique hands 15

For sale sign 17

People bingo 19

All about me cube 21

Student of the week 23

Being a good friend 37

Mini book 38

Comic strip 39

Design a poster 40

Friendship mobile 41

Credits 43

If you could have gone anywhere in the world during the summer holidays where

would you have gone and why?

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Send a postcard

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Write a postcard to your friend

explaining what you did during the

summer holidays.

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Unique Hands Instructions

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1. Provide each student with a copy of the template on the following page. 2. Get each student to write his/her name on the

palm of the hand. 3. Split students in to groups of 5. 4. Students write what they think is unique about

them in one of the fingers. This could just be a word, or a short sentence.

5. The students pass their hands around the circle, and the other students write a unique quality in a finger about that student. 6. Once completed, cut the hands out and make

a poster with all the hands glued on to display in the room.

Unique Hands

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Student of the Week Instructions

1. Enlarge and print the boy/girl silhouettes provided on pages 25-26. Also enlarge and print the banner found on the next page.

2. Find a space in the room to hang each template and the banner.

3. Print copies of the ‘getting to know you’ templates on pages 27-36.

4. Select a boy and a girl to be the student of the week.

5. Provide each student with copies of the ‘getting to know you’ templates.

6. Students take these home and complete them. When they bring them back stick them around the silhouettes. Get the students to talk about their responses.

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Where I was born

Where I was born

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Design a poster about being a good

friend

Friendship Mobile Instructions

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1. Provide each student with 3 strips of colored paper/card, approximately 25cm long (10 inches). Also provide them with a copy of the template on the next page.

2. On the provided template get students to color and decorate the mobile heading (friendship).

3. In the frames provided on the right side of the page, students draw pictures and words that relate to being a good friend.

4. Students cut out the words and pictures and the ‘friendship’ heading.

5. Get students to attach each colored strip evenly to the banner heading. Then attach 4 words / pictures to each colored strip.

Credits

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