Salt Art = Teamwork

My favorite first week of school activity is a lesson on teamwork. Everyone in our class (adults included) works together to make salt art. This is so easy. You just pour some table salt on a paper plate. Next you rub a piece of sidewalk on the salt until it changes the color of the chalk. Last you pour the salt in to a jar. When we finish the project we discuss how it took us all working together to complete the project. We talk about how if just one person did not do their part the salt art would not have been complete. We then relate that to the class and how important it is for all of us to work together to make our classroom run smoothly. I leave the jar of salt art where the students can easily see it. When the students stop working together, we refer back to the jar of salt art. My students LOVE doing this and always beg to do it again.