1st Day of School

Secret Envelope

Can’t wait to try for Back to School.

I saw this in a PD today and know my students would love to do in class.  Not just for the 1^st day, but for the whole year I have some great ideas to use the secret envelope for.  This is a gret way for your students to get to know each other at the beginnig of the year.  You can make and put any questions that you would love to add. I have done some that I will use with my class.  Just print on colored paper cut and put inside envelope.  Add the top secret clip art to the front of your envelope to catch your students attention.

How it works:

·       Put students in groups of 4 or 5 (make sure you have enough questions for everyone to pull one)

·       First student pulls a question from the envelope

·       They read it aloud and answer the question.  Go around the group and everyone else answers the same question

·       Pass the envelope to the next person.  They pull out a question and they read it aloud and answer the question.  Then everyone else answers the same question. 

·       Continued the process of next student pulling question and have them and everyone else answer it.

Attached is some examples of questions you can do.

Other ways to use this would be:

·       Math – Have slips that say “How can you make 10?” First students may say “5+5=10”, 2^nd student may answer “9+1=10” and so on.

·       ELA – Given an examples of a noun? Given an example of a verb? Make a sentence using the noun “boy”

Can’t wait to use this with my class.  Set up your envelopes and just change out your strips on the inside throughout the year.  Visit my TPT store to download it.

Hope you love this!