Summer Holiday Bingo Ice Breaker Activity

A fun back to school activity to help the children get to know their new class or become reacquainted with their existing one after 6 weeks off. Each child or pair has a copy of the bingo sheet (3 levels of differentiation available). Give them a time limit in which to collect as many names as possible on the sheet by finding another person who did each activity during the holidays. Can also promote discussion around children's holidays which is a great prompt for them writing a summer holiday recount, as a baseline for your writing targets for the coming weeks. You could take this activity onto the playground if the weather is dry, allowing more space for walking around to talk to each other. During the activity make sure children concentrate on beginning their classmates' names with a capital letter, and start as they mean to go on!