Getting to Know You Activity for the First Day of Fieldwork

Today is the day that we were able to meet the students in our fieldwork classroom for the first time. To get to know the students, we created groups where each group had a different activity and the students were able to rotate and experience each activity.
My group decided to do a fun activity of "Getting to Know You Jenga" because it is an interactive game that students should be familiar with. It is an exciting game and the students always love trying to keep the tower standing.
For this activity, we took a traditional Jenga set and on each of the wooden blocks we laminated different getting to know you questions. Some of these questions include:
"What is one fun thing that you did this summer?"
"What is your favorite subject in school?"
"What is your favorite book?"
"What is your favorite movie?"
"If you could have any superpower what would it be and why?"

These questions all have the purpose of getting to know the interests of the student, which can help us when we later create activities during the lessons. We learned a lot of different things about our students as they were excited to play the game and share their life with us. The teacher candidates in our group also got involved in the game by pulling blocks and answering the questions on it. We wanted the students to know about us and get comfortable with us just like we were getting to know the students.
One thing that I learned about my fieldwork class is that they are all incredibly smart but are easily excited, so this is something that my group will take into consideration when we begin to teach the class.