Warm-Up Activity

Devising a warm-up activities that allows me to learn some personal information about my students is not one of my stronger characteristics. As a natural introvert, I would try to keep it simple without trying to make sure I used all the learning modalities: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile. However, I would be willing to get it a try.
As someone who has a hard time learning names, I would require the students to make name tags for their desks. This could fall under tactile. While they are making their name tags, I would have each student stand up (kinesthetic), tell me their name, a hobby, and if they like the end of their toilet paper over the top of the roll or rolling down the backside of the roll. The visual would be the name tag and seeing the student. The auditory would be hearing their information. The toilet paper comment is something silly to mention, hopefully used to lighten the mood.
I would also use the toilet paper comment to see if the student is "too cool" to make a silly comment. In P250 at IUSB, the T.P. comment does set the mood for first day introductions and set the personal atmosphere of the peer mentor groups.
This comment takes for granted that the student's T.P. hangs on a roller (and takes for granted that they have T.P. at home). In SPEA I was trained to not take things for granted, and be aware of gender, race, and class issues. (Thank you, Otis Grant, for training me well!) So, I do not know if the T.P. comment should be added to introductions. (Please, reader, let me know what you think in the comment section.)