Get your classroom decorated with charts

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Classroom rules

"It is obvious that there should be classroom rules. However, these should not be set forth entirely by the teacher. There's no better way to establish classroom rules than to do it with your students'collaboration." (busyteacher.org) (Take a look to classroom rules post)

First lesson

Teachers are getting ready to get started, and students wonder what their teacher's like, and the first thing is obviously to get to know each other. What a better way to start than with a fun ice-breaker.

Check out these websites: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/ice-breaker_games.htm www.training-games.com/pdf/40FreeIceBreakers.pdf http://www.icebreakergames.org/ http://insight.typepad.co.uk/40_icebreakers_for_small_groups.pdf

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