When kids enter your classroom for the first time in the fall, you likely already have a plan for how you will teach your routines, procedures and rules.
BUT...have you thought about how you will get students interacting with one another on that first day? How you will get these new faces to start forming bonds? It is always good to have a plan on how to group or partner students.
There are tons of fun ways to group students, and having a go-to pairing up method helps your class run smoothly. Below are a few ways that are quick and don't require any prepared materials.
- Stand up hand up pair up
- Students stand up, push in chairs and walk around the room in a randomized fashion
- Teacher says "freeze" and students stop walking and raise their hand
- Students locate a classmate close to them and high five their new partner.
- If a student has trouble locating a partner--they just look for someone who still has their hand up, or they can come close to teacher and the teacher can assign a group.
- Form a line
- Have students line up in alphabetical order based on their favorite food, animal, restaurant, etc.
- Pair students with their neighbor in line OR each end becomes a partner
- forming a line can also be done using numerical order based on birthday, number of siblings, letters in name, address, etc.
- Form based on type of clothing
- Ask students to form groups based on clothing. For example everyone who is wearing red, tennis shoes, necklace, jeans, etc.
- Use online tools
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