Welcome back to school! August 25 and August 26

for the future of every student

In the first days our goals are to get to know the grade 9 students, establish some expectations and share some resources for being successful in transitioning to Foothill!

Link to Working Advisory Calendar

Link to Working Advisory Calendar

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Thursday, August 25

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - No travel

Getting to Know Each Other Activities

DETAILS

• Sit together in FIRE zone
• Put phones away
• Take attendance
• Teacher-led introductory activities of their choice
• Peer leaders support through positive role modeling and enthusiastic, active participation

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Friday, August 26

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - No travel

Getting to Know Each Other Activities

DETAILS

• Sit together in FIRE zone
• Put phones away
• Take attendance
• Teacher-led introductory activities of their choice
• Peer leaders support through positive role modeling and enthusiastic, active participation

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Resources

More Icebreaker Activities

• 40 Questions List from Orientation Handbook​
• Personal interviews - let the kids interview you or each other
  
• Two Truths and a Lie
• Heads Up/Hedbandz
  
• Pictionary (on the white board)
• Decorating desk tent cards (for names)
• Life information bingo cards
• Name of famous person on their back and trying to ask questions to figure it out
• Kahoot of your choice
• What Did You Do This Summer - pair and whole group sharing
• Q&A about first days of school
• Monster drawing (trifold, one person draws top, one middle, one bottom)
  
• Any card game you have available
  
• Any board game you have available
  
• Get out the Legos and let them build and chat
  
• Put "freshdragon" on white board and come up with words/character traits for each letter
  
  • Something similar with student names
    
• ​Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza
  
• If you have paper plates, you could do the drawing on the top of the head (similar to baby shower game)
  
• Find interests and histories in common
  
• https://www.sessionlab.com/blog/icebreaker-games/ ​
  
• https://nuventuretravels.com/blog/10-fun-free-travel-games 

Reminder

FIRE Crew leaders should reference Google Classroom and Canvas for materials, directions, activities, etc.