Reflection is an important skill that we need to reinforce with our students. To assist with this task, I created a New Year’s small group discussion and goal-setting activity to help my students with their reflection skills. In this step-by-step goal-setting activity, students will be excited and engaged during their first week back at school.
New Year’s Goal Setting Activity Reflection Process
- As a class watch this video about How different cultures celebrate the New Year.
- Then have a class discussion about what they learned from the video.
- After, arrange students in small groups of 4 – 5 people.
- Give each group a bag of discussion prompts.
- Provide students time to use the discussion prompts in their small groups.
- Have a brief class discussion about new ideas they started to think about stemming from the discussion.
- Hand out the New Year’s Reflection Sheets and model responses under a document camera.
- Give students independent work time to fill out their reflection sheets.
- As time permits, conference with your students about their goals.
Follow up this activity with a New Year’s Digital Escape Room. In this escape room, students will use new and previous knowledge of New Year’s traditions to solve challenges.
This New Year’s Digital Escape Room allows students to work independently or with their peers to solve 10 New Year’s-themed challenges. Students must solve the required challenges to “escape” the school library they accidentally got locked in.
This is a fantastic activity to use to reinforce the importance of classroom community after the holiday break.
This New Year’s Digital Escape Room can be found on Teachers Pay Teachers USD or Shopify CAD.
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