Lance Kinstner

This start of school survey that I call the "Getting to Know You Questionnaire" is a great first day or first week of school activity. It will only take 5 to 10 minutes, but you will come away with a wealth of information and insights into your students. I've easily used this with all middle school grades, and it would work the same with high school as well. I tend to use this as a warm up type activity at the beginning of the hour on the first day of school. Simply print, copy enough for all y

Here is a simple and effective sheet for weekly warm ups. As long as you keep your warm up short and sweet, this should work like a charm. This .docx version (I also have an un-editable pdf version for sale that is cheaper) is set up for a warm up every day for a week, with a place for the date under the day initial on the left as well as a place for points and corrector's initials on the right. On the last day of the week, students tally up their totals and write them at the bottom. On this pd