Questions:
If you were a teacher and could teach your students anything at all, what would you teach them?
What is your favorite summer food to eat?
Name one thing you saw this summer that you’d never seen before.
What was your favorite thing you did this summer?
If you were free to do anything you wanted all day, what would you do?
What do you think about rules? Do you think they’re important? What are some rules you have in your home or at school?
If you could change one thing about your family or about school, what would it be?
If you were a season, which season would you be and why?
What will you miss most about winter?
If you could create a new tradition for our family, what would it be? Or how would you change a family tradition we already have?
Talk about two things for which you felt thankful or grateful for today.
How do you feel when you receive thank you cards from your friends or when they say ‘thank you’? Why?
Who is your favorite storybook character? What do you imagine he or she feels thankful for?
Talk about something nice someone did for you this week, or something that made you feel better.
If you had superpowers, what would they be and how would you use them to help people?
What is your favorite thing to do outside?
Talk about the last movie you saw or book you read where someone was compassionate.
Who is your best friend? Why?
What are 3 things you can do for someone who isn’t feeling well?
Do you like when other people share with you? Why?
What is one thing you did today that helped other people?
If you are sick or sad, what can someone do to care for you?
What was the best gift you ever received?
What is your favorite thing to share with friends? What is the hardest thing to share?
Tell me your favorite story about our family.
Do you know any stories about your grandparents when they were kids?
Who is the funniest person you know?
Do you know some of the jobs that your parents had when they were young?
Do you know some of the lessons that your parents learned from good or bad experiences they had during their childhoods?
Do you know the story about how your parents met?
What would you say to someone who was sad?
If you woke up tomorrow and could do one thing that you can’t do right now, what would it be?
On your first day off, what’s the one thing you really want to do?
What would you like to do this weekend?
If you had 3 wishes, what would they be? (And you can’t wish for more wishes!)
If you could be an animal, what would you want to be? Why?
What is your favorite animal?
What is your favorite game to play with the family?
Do you think it’s more fun to be a parent or a child?
What special talent(s) do you have?
What is your favorite season? What do you like about it?
What are 3 things you have to do every day, whether you like it or not?
When you are really upset, what helps calm you down?
What rules do you have to follow at school?
What rules do you have to follow at home?
What do you like to do on rainy days?
What is something that you dream about?
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you want to live?
If you could choose another name for yourself, would you? What name would you choose?
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what food would you choose?
If you had three cookies and five friends, what would you do to make it fair for everybody?
What was the best vacation you ever had? Or the best you can imagine?
If you were principal of your school, would you change anything? What?
Talk about a person you admire, famous or otherwise, who has fought or fights for the freedom of others.
Spring is often said to be a time of regrowth or change. Is there anything you would like to change or do differently this season?
Do you have a favorite love story? Is it from a book, movie or real life? Talk about it.
Do you find it easy to say I love you, or hard? Are there times when it’s harder than others?
“’Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.” What does that phrase mean to you?
Do you prefer to listen or to speak?
Who is the one person you trust the most?
Milk or juice?
What do you like about your work? Dislike?
What is your job? What do you do every day?
Finish this sentence: “Someday, I’m going to be the first person in the world to…”
If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be? Why?
Tell a funny joke.
What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?
Would you rather be rich or famous?
What is your favorite form of exercise?
Who is/was your favorite teacher? Why?
Who was the first person you fell in love with? ( or “Talk about your first love.”)
What is your favorite childhood storybook? What is special about it? Who used to read it with you?
Describe the ideal boy/girlfriend.
How do you feel about social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat)? How do they affect your relationships with others?
Do you stay in touch with friends you can’t see every day? How?
Do you believe in love at first sight?
What makes you laugh?
What does it mean to be successful?
What is your favorite childhood memory?
What’s the most fun summer trip you’ve ever taken?