The last couple of weeks I have discussed the importance of get to know you activities. Last week I shared one of my favorite get to know you activities that I call the “Interview and Introduction”. In this activity students answer a series of questions about themselves on an index card, the teacher then redistributes those cards and then has the students walk around the room interviewing each other until they find the person whose card they have. Students then introduce each other.

As I said last week, one of the great things about this activity is that the teacher gets to collect the cards and use the information on those cards for follow-up get to know you activities.

This week I’d like to share with you one of those follow-up get to know you activities. I call it…Get To Know You Bingo.

It simple and fun…

First, I take the index cards I collected from the “Interview and Introduction” activity and use the information on them to create bingo cards. I simply go through each index card a place one thing about each student in each bingo square. Each student then gets their own bingo sheet and walks around the room trying to find which of their classmates matches up with which bingo square. When students find a match they get their classmate to sign that particular box. Five signatures in a row wins Bingo!

Of course, it is much easier to create bingo cards if you have some type of bingo card creator software. You can find out more about my favorite way to create bingo cards here: Create Bingo Cards

Or you can view this video I made that shows you how easy it is to create bingo cards with this software: www.Bingo.TeachingTipsMachine.com

Good luck with your get to know you activities

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