School starts in a week and a half, so I've started getting ready for the first days back.
I haven't done name tents in the past, but a lot of my colleagues swear by them as a way to save their sanity and learn names quickly. Now that I'm starting my second year at full time and have 3 sections of German 1, I think I'm going to give them a try.
I started with a great free Name Tent Activity Template from the Science Duo on Teachers Pay Teachers:
I then modified it for my German classes. For German 1, students will have some basic beginning conversation phrases (images from mycutegraphics.com):
My German 2 students will have some conversation and review of verb forms:
Here's the link to the file if you'd like to use or modify it: German Name Tent.