The First Day of School

What activity should I do for the first day of school? 

This year I want to do the first few days of school right.  Usually I just read the standard course documents, lab safety talk and dive right into my first unit.  This year I plan to shake that up by doing a few more getting-to-know-you style things with the kids.  I've narrowed my options down to:

1) Learning Styles Survey - an easy end of the class activity to toss at the kids.  They answer questions to a quick survey and plot out what type of "mind" they have.  There are several variations "out there" I'll have to find one and link to it.

2) A changing view of the world - In my 9th grade Earth Science, I give the kids a piece of blank paper and have them draw me the Earth.  I'll htell them to draw it as a map and to label as many different things on the map as they can (islands, rivers, mountainranged, countrys, cities, anything, etc)  I want to have them repeat and revise their maps 3 more times throughout the year.  At the end of the year they will have 4 maps (and each should be more detailed than the last).

3) Directions Quiz - Either one of those lists that is a reading challenge or something more hands on - like building origami from directions.

4) Goals cards - I have always had my kids make namecards on index cards so I can call on them throughout the year.  at the end of the year I give the kids back their cards and they like to see what kind of predictions they made from the first week.  I want to do the cards last because I want them to add their scores from the first 3 activities to the cards and see how they do at the end of the year.


So what do you guys think?  Sound like a good first few days of high school science?