All advice should be weighed against your own abilities and circumstances and applied accordingly. It is up to the reader to determine if advice is safe and suitable for their own situation. Each person rolls the dice and must answer the number of questions as the number that is rolled. It helps the kids to get to know each other and MAreCAsh gets a good baseline on expressive language levels. You can put words on cards and have the student pick and card.
Children love getting mail.
Help each student address an envelope with their home address. If they don t know their address, this is their first homework assignment for the year. Then ask each child when is their birthday. Put the birthday dates in a small pocket calendar and send out birthday cards during the school year. You can set this up in September and use it all year.