This is what I do my first week! The first week is so overwhelming but can make or break the rest of your year! I do not take any grades the first week it is all about routines, procedures, expectations , social skills, etc. AND REPETITION!!!!!! Every activity I do is not about the curriculum or grade it is about establishing a framework for the rest of the year. REMEMBER everything you do this week is about routines and expectations!!!
Before my kiddos even arrive I set up a table with
baskets/bins to place supplies as the kids arrive. They will meet their teacher
J, sort their supplies,
put up their backpack and go straight to their seat.
I do go ahead and label their
lockers and number their seats.
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Love
my LOCKERS!!
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I have met several teachers that prefer to wait to label because their class lists change BUT I remember how much I liked finding my
name when I was little…the kids and parents enjoy
having their names already placed J.
At their seats I have white play dough in a baggie! Read
this post from Clutter Free Classroom.
OKAY, let’s get this party started!
I do community supplies and do not hand out supplies
all at once. Read this post to see how I introduce supplies and why my students start the year with an empty supply basket!
Hope these are not confusing or overwhelming :). I included links to all the products I use the first week.
Bobbi Bates
Lesson Plans
Day 1
7:45 enter the classroom- go
straight to their seats
7:45-8:05 Eat breakfast, and play with
the play dough.
8:05-8:10 Talk about lining up
procedure PRACTICE
8:30-9:30 Practice HALLWAY and ASSEMBLY
procedures-walk around the school and outside discussing the rules of each
place.
9:30-9:45 Practice BATHROOM procedures
9:45-1000 Practice CAFETERIA procedures
10:10-11:00 Read Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom TSW create their own alphabet tree with their names.
HOW TO CUT AND PUT AWAY TRASH-HOW TO USE
GLUE STICKS.
(glue
stick and scissors posters)
11:00-11:10 Practice LINING UP FOR RECESS
procedures
11:10-11:30 recess
11:35-11:55 lunch HOW TO STAND WHILE
WAITING FOR THE TEACHER
11:55-12:15 Read Aloud: Chrysanthemum. PRACTICE HOW TO SIT DURING A STORY AND BE AN
ACTIVE LISTENER.
12:15-12:55 SPECIALS
DAY
1:00-1:20 practice
COMPUTER LAB procedures
1:20-1:50 We discuss names and as a
class we will find out how many syllables each character in Chrysanthemum had
in their name. Then we will find how many syllables our names have and post
them on the giant hand. We will also circle the vowels in our names before we
display them.
1:50-2:10 PENCIL PROCEDURES- how/when to use the sharpener!
2:00-2:20 district assessment
2:20 I
use Amy Lemons “Let's Get Started {Beginning of the Year MathActivities}” for my first week of school math.
Math Tools
Exploration. – learn about different math
tools Amy Lemons page 18
2:45PRACTICE
MORNING PROCEDURES AGAIN
Practice
PACKING UP-END OF DAY procedures
2:50-3:00 practice DISMISSAL procedures
Bobbi Bates
Lesson Plans
Day 2
7:45 enter the classroom
review
BREAKFAST AND MORNING procedures
review PENCIL
procedures – pencil drawing page Megan Snable’s “Back to school – Draw and Write Center”
review LINING
UP procedures
review HALLWAY
procedures
review BATHROOM
procedures
Review Chrysanthemum
-answer the comprehension questions TOGETHER practice proper sentences
LEARN HOW TO CORRECTLY copy from the board.
9:45-10:00 Learn about our classroom
library and discuss How to treat our books- read “Forest Friends go to School”
YOU HAVE TO PREP THIS!!
------OMG I
LOVE THIS ACTIVITY!!
11:00-11:10 review RECESS procedures
11:10-11:30 recess
11:35-11:55 lunch HOW TO STAND WHILE
WAITING FOR THE TEACHER
11:55 Review Chrysanthemum
to make a text-to-self connection. TSW make a connection with how Chrysanthemum
felt when people made fun of her and encouraged her. TSW create a Chrysanthemum out of construction paper and start the sentence starters. Hollie Griffith’s Freebie”
Chrysanthemum Creativity”
12:15-12:55 SPECIALS
1:00-1:20 review
COMPUTER LAB procedures
2:00-2:15 district
assessment
Amy Lemons
page 20
review
MORNING PROCEDURES again
PACKING
UP-END OF DAY PROCEDURES
2:55-3:00 DISMISSAL
Bobbi Bates
Lesson Plans
Day 3
7:45 enter the classroom
REVIEW
BREAKFAST AND MORNING
MARKER
AND COLOR PENCIL ROUTINE- (marker and pencil posters)
crayon drawing page
practice LINING UP procedures
practice
HALLWAY procedures
practice
BATHROOM procedures
10:40-11:00 Make our
Journal Covers (I use writing and math) –I
just search TPT for these
11:00-11:10 review RECESS procedures
11:10-11:30 recess
11:35-11:55 lunch HOW TO STAND WHILE
WAITING FOR THE TEACHER
Read Wemberly
Worried. Discuss how students felt on the first day of school (write on the
board or chart paper) In their writing journals students will draw and try to
write a sentence about how they felt.
12:15-12:55 SPECIALS
1:00-1:20 review
COMPUTER LAB procedures
1:20-2:00Finish Wemberly writing –
answer Wemberly Worried comprehension questions together
2:00-2:15 district
assessment
2:15-2:50 TSW write to 100
Introduce
Calendar and
Math Friend Procedures
2:50-3:00 DISMISSAL
Bobbi Bates
Lesson Plans
Day 4
7:45 enter the classroom
review
BREAKFAST AND MORNING procedures
learn MORNING WORK procedures
review
PRACTICE procedures
review
HALLWAY procedures
review
BATHROOM procedures
8:45-9:30 review HOW TO TREAT BOOKS - Book Drawing Paper
learn AR
(accelerated reader) PROCEDURES
11:10-11:30 recess
11:35-11:55 lunch HOW TO STAND WHILE
WAITING FOR THE TEACHER
Wemberly Worried. TSW make a Wemberly craft and
finish the sentence starter. Read With me ABC’s “Wemberly Worried” Freebie
12:15-12:55 SPECIALS
1:00-1:20
COMPUTER LAB
Finish WEMBERLY craft and writing
2:00-2:15 district
assessment
Amy
Lemons page 4 - here is a picture from her BLOG, you have to check it out!
2:50-3:00 DISMISSAL
Bobbi Bates
Lesson Plans
Day 5
7:45 enter the classroom
review
BREAKFAST AND MORNING procedures
review MORNING WORK procedures
review
PRACTICE procedures
review
HALLWAY procedures
review
BATHROOM procedures
8:45 Read Lily’s Plastic Purple Purse make a purple purse and add
traits to Lilly. Leslie Ann’s “Craft Patterns for Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse”
freebie
Add character traits to the
large LILLY (you will have to prep this)
11:10-11:30 recess
11:35-11:55 lunch HOW TO STAND WHILE
WAITING FOR THE TEACHER
Add
Traits to the other Kevin Henkes characters
1:00-1:20
COMPUTER LAB
1:20-2:00
Read “What is a Scientist” Make anchor chart then create individual webs or
books. This is now AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL!!
WHAT IS A SCIENTIST BLOG POST!
WHAT IS A SCIENTIST BLOG POST!
2:35-2:55 district
assessment
2:55-3:00 PBS DISMISSAL
OKAY, I
hoped this helped some- HAVE FUN!!!!
