Who's In Your Circle

I got this great "getting to know you" activity from Michael Friermood on TPT. It was a great way for the kids to find out who in the class shares their interests.  The students also got a much needed opportunity to move around.  Finally, it was a chance for us to practice rotating from group to group. 

This product offers a couple of pages of pre-labeled favorites and a blank page of circles.  Next time I will have the students use only the blank page.  I will let them label their own "favorite category" so that they can find others that share the things that are important to them.  For example, one of the pre-labeled circles is "favorite ice cream flavor".  I don't think that knowing that someone else loves vanilla ice cream is very useful. Fun, but not useful.  If a sports loving student could label their own circle "favorite sport" then that might be more helpful in finding friends with common interests. 

Overall this was a great activity, and I will definitely use it again!