1.4: Who's in our class?

1. Take digital or Polaroid photos of each student.
2. Paste the photographs onto pieces of A4 paper and write students' names and a sentence which describes them.
3. Display or staple together sheets of paper to make a book for shared reading activities.

Alternative activity 1

1. In pairs or with an older buddy students draw around each others' hands.
2. Ask students to write their names across the palms. Scribe a positive word suggested by the students to describe themselves along each finger.
3. Cut out the hands or ask students to.
4. Staple the thumbs or little fingers together and strings the hands along the wall.

Alternative activity 2 (strings of paper dolls)

1. Divide the class into groups of six (by table).
2. Using butcher's paper, create a string of six paper dolls for each group.
3. Ask each student to write his or her name on the chest of a paper doll.
4. Ask students to add features and appropriately colour the dolls in their likeness.
5. Pin the paper dolls to the wall joining each of the strings.
6. Ask students to suggest a positive word which describes them. Scribe the word on the dolls' chests under their names.