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2nd Grade Beginning of the Year Activity

Classroom Community Web by Kristeena Bruce, Katie McFate, Susan Fuller, Brent D. Batchelor

1. The teacher will call the class into a circle on the carpet/ ground. 2. The teacher will start with a ball of yarn and say his or her name, two things he or she likes and something about his or her family. 3. The teacher will then hold on to the end of the yarn and toss the ball of yarn to a student across the circle. 4. The student will say his or her name, two things he or she likes, and something about his or her family. 5. The student will hold on tho the end of the yarn and and toss the ball to another student in the circle. 6. This process will continue until each student has had a chance to speak and a web of yarn is formed in the middle of the circle. 7. The last student to speak will toss the yarn back to the teacher. 8. The teacher will explain that the class is connected through the web that they made. The teacher will have the class pull on the yarn to realize that they are all still connected to each other and they will be connected to each other as a class for the school year. The teacher will explain that the class will be connected through the stories that they tell and the relationships that they will build.