It's never too soon to start preparing for the first week of school. Check out these tips on how teachers can plan for the new school year.
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Is it just me or when you hear the words first day and/or first week of school you completely panic?! In my opinion, it’s one of the most stressful times of the year. However, it’s also one of the most crucial times of the year. It’s the time where you lay a solid foundation, learn […]
If you’re a new teacher wondering what to teach the first week of school, check out these 15 routines & procedures your students should learn
The first week of school is a critical time to teach all your classroom procedures and expectations. I usually spend the first week of school…
Planning for the first week of school can be overwhelming! Here are my first week of school lesson plans and resources.
The end of the year tends to creep up on us fast! We blink, and somehow, it’s May! And the last few months of school get super busy and can be overwhelming for students, so it’s important to incorporate fun activities that help them enjoy their time. And it’s a fun way for me to celebrate them. Snag up some of these ideas to make the end of the year special for your students.
If you’re a new teacher wondering what to teach the first week of school, check out these 15 routines & procedures your students should learn
3 simple, fun, and FREE ideas for the last day of school in 1st grade! The last day of school can feel hectic! Here are 3 stress-free ideas
Tips and ideas for what to do on the first day of school.
During the first week of first grade, it's important to plan engaging and fun activities to build community and relationships with your students.
Send them off with a smile!
The ultimate list of activities on the first day of school to make students feel welcome, excited, and ready to learn! Crafts, games...
Use these free printable first day of school interview worksheets to create your own school memory boxes for your kids! Just print the free questionnaire and have your kids fill it in as a fun keepsake. Super cute "All about me" first day of school printables!
My top 5 activities for the first day of school for second grade include free, fun, and engaging activities for 2nd grade.
Lesson planning is always a bit tricky, but coming up with lesson plans for the first week of school is extra challenging! How much time should we spend teaching procedures? How can we get to know our new students? What can we do to make the first week fun? When should we start with the
Let me help you plan your first week of school lesson plans! I have many tips and tricks to share to make it easier for you!
Want to teach rules and expectations in an engaging way? Use picture books! These 15 picture books are some of the best to start your year.
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The lessons you teach at the beginning of the year are crucial for laying the foundation and setting the tone for the rest of the school year. During the first week, your schedule should be a mix of teaching procedures and expectations as well as building a strong classroom community. Download o
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There are 5 mistakes Pre-K teachers typically make in the first week of school. After years of trial and error, I now avoid doing these five things.
Want a special way to document your kids growth and first and last day of school? Look no further than our First/Last Day of School Sign! It's reversible so you only have to have one on hand! Because this item is a sign and made from wood, it is heavy. We only offer local pickup in Ballwin or Oakville for this item. So, please do not select shipping for this item. Please allow 3 weeks turnaround time for this item.
Say goodbye to the summer blues with our FIRST & LAST DAY OF SCHOOL BOARD! Looking for the perfect way to commemorate your kid's first and last days of school? This back-to-school board is here to facilitate precious memories that will last a lifetime! Each board comes with a "first day" side and a "last day" side, ensuring fun photo ops for every student!
Looking for fun first day of school traditions? Don't miss these easy back to school traditions to start this year to make sweet memories for your kids.
Today was our last day of school! To begin our day, I wanted our morning work to be a bit more fun, but something that would hold my children's interest for a while. I got this idea from a follow teacher and quickly saw how much fun they would have, so I went with it. I covered their group of desks with bulletin board paper, and I put out washable markers, which they almost never get to use. When they came in I told them they would get to draw all over their area with markers, and they could draw anything they wanted. They absolutely loved it! Here's a picture of one of the group's handiwork. I thought this drawing was so cute! As the day went one, we played math games, cleaned our desks and looked through all of our folders before packing them for home. I read stories to them and we worked on our Memory Books. They loved playing our End of Year Scavenger Hunt. They looked for friends who loved or were doing certain things mentioned on the scavenger hunt. You can get your FREE copy by clicking on the name, End Of Year Scavenger Hunt. All day long, they asked the same question over and over... "Is it time for the party to start?" Finally, it was time! For the End-of-Year party, we made Ice Cream Sundaes, complete with all the toppings! While we enjoyed our sweet concoctions, we watched our End-of-Year photo video, featuring all of my sweet kiddos. After the video, I handed each kid or parent a card with the QR code and link to the End-of-Year photo video, where they can download the video to their own computer. In addition to the End-of-Year photo video I spoke about in my last post, I like to give my students a little going away present. I found these colorful beach pails at Dollar General for a buck each. I used paint pens to personalize a pail for each of my students. To go inside each pail, I made a treat bag with a few pieces of candy. Then I put the treat bag inside beach pail, along with a couple of pieces of sidewalk chalk. I found a large container of 54 pieces of sidewalk chalk at Hobby Lobby for $6, and using the weekly 40% off coupon, the whole thing was less than $4. That was about 7 cents for each piece of chalk - a real bargain. Finally, I gave my sweet kiddos their personalized beach pails to take home and enjoy over the summer, and received in return, some of the sweetest hugs and smiles. It was a great party to end a great year!
Here’s another fun idea for the last week of school – let the kids go on a class scavenger hunt! They will walk around the class, ask each other questions, and find out who can fit in each square. It’s a fun way for students to be active and engaged! Grab the free download on ... Read More about End of the Year Activity – Class Scavenger Hunt
I DID IT! I survived the first week of second grade, again! It was actually probably my best first week yet! I spent lots of time at the end of the year preparing for back to school. Opening my Back to School box was such a relief, because so much work was already done! Of ... Read More about The First Week of Second Grade
It goes without saying, the end of the year is CR A Z Y. The kids are off the chart excited (the diplomatic way of saying WILD). There are grades and assessments to complete. There are records and other paper work to be tended to. There is a classroom to clean out, organize, and shutdown for the summer. Plus, there are all those special, fun days that you put off until all the major testing is over. Whew...I've been on summer break for about a week and I'm still breaking out in a little sweat thinking about the last few weeks of school. ;) After 16 year is the classroom, there are a couple of tips I have for ending the school year with your sanity intact. First, start working on all your extra stuff early. Do not wait until the last minute to try to organize field day, put together end of the year gifts for your students, do grades, and finish permanent record cards. Take care of as many details as you can before you hit the last couple of weeks. My second tip is to keep your students busy, busy, busy. You may have already covered all of your essential standards. Your students may be struggling to fully focus. But, you need to keep them moving ahead in their learning. Plus, from my experience, students behave much better when they are engaged and have tasks to complete. Here are some fun end of the year/summer inspired activities we did during the last weeks of school... I love having student work on display. I have a spot in the hallway where I hang student work and I also put display pieces in my classroom. At the end of the year, it can get a little too hectic to change out student work, so I put together a simple summer writing craftivity that took little to no time to prep. Students wrote about their plans or things they would like to do this summer. They really got into this assignment. In the end, we had a colorful display to remind us that summer break was just around the corner. If you would like to use this writing craftivity with your students, you can click on the picture below for more details. We also worked on some (hot off the press) literacy and math centers. For the past couple of years, I've intended to round out my literacy and math centers with sets that are end of the year and summer inspired. However, since the end of the year is the way it is...I have ran out of steam before I completed my project. But, this year was different. I stayed up late several nights and managed to finish up these long awaited resources. To tell you the truth, it was pretty fun putting these sets together. They served as a great review of many skills we practiced during the year. I could really see how far my young learners have come. Pictured below are a couple of the literacy centers students worked with during the final weeks. These literacy centers (and nine others-there is a bonus 11th center as well) are part of my Excellent Endings {10 Literacy Centers for the End of the Year} packet. The centers in Excellent Endings include work with adjectives, synonyms/antonyms, syllables, pronouns, verbs, sight words, vowel teams, contractions, and more. You can click here if you'd like more details. We also kept busy with the companion set of math centers, Excellent Endings {10 Math Centers for the End of the Year}. Pictured below are a couple of centers from this packet. There are a total of eleven math centers in my Excellent Endings {10 Math Centers for the End of the Year}. (This packet also includes a bonus 11th center.) The centers in Excellent Endings include practice with fact families, place value, geometry, time to the half hour, double digit addition/subtraction, fractions, and more. You can click here if you'd like more details. These end of the year literacy and math centers offered a good deal of flexibility and quality skill practice during the last weeks of school. In addition to our center work, another end of the year project I love is my Graduation Glyph. We've made these glyphs for the past few years and they always turn out so cute. Like with all glyphs, students answer questions to determine details about their project. We used our glyphs for some data collection to help complete our end of the year memory booklets. When we finished, students autographed each others' booklets. (They loved this part.) If you would like more info about my Graduation Glyph {A Fun End of the Year Craftivity and Memory Booklet}, just click here. Besides keeping my kids occupied, (like I mentioned before) there are quiet a few responsibilities that get added to teachers' plates at the end of the year. One responsibility we have at our school is to put together a little something for our classes during Awards Day. This year we had the option of doing awards with our students in our own classrooms, instead of in the auditorium with the entire grade. We opted for doing awards in our classes and I went to work making some new superlative awards for my almost second graders. It was nice to reflect back on the year and about my students' accomplishments, personalities, and interests. All the students loved hearing about their special awards and why they are so deserving. We had a great time. I created the awards in full color and in ink saver, backline. I went back and forth on which version to use. In the end, I decided to go with the ink saver on some bright and colorful paper. My End of the Year Student Awards are also available at my store. They are editable and include girl and boy versions of all of the awards. You can click on the picture below for more information. Student awards and end of the year gifts are definitely tasks that you can get an early start on. For this year's gifts, I gave each student a book and personalized bookmark. Scholastic books is a great resource when you are trying to outfit your entire class with the same book. I was so excited to see this Ready Freddy Second Grade Rules on sale for $1. #score Many of my firsties were pretty proud to be leaving for the summer with their very own chapter book. If you would like a free (and editable) copy of the bookmarks I gave to my students, you can click here. I hope some of these ideas and resources are a help to you as you wrap up your school year. If you get an early start on some of your extra responsibilities and keep your students involved with meaningful activities, the end of the year will way less stressful. Thanks for stopping by.
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This fill in is similar to the first day of school one but it has more information about what they loved and learned throughout the year. All you have to ...
Your kids can tell all about themselves as they enter and leave each grade with these fun free First & Last Day of School Interview printables.
A new title to add to the last day of school books in your classroom library! A Letter From Your Teacher On the Last Day of School
I wanted to stop by today and share some a few of my “go-to” activities during the first week of school to build our classroom community and set expectations for […]
Get to know your students at the beginning of the year with this fun Create-A-Croc activity! This resources is perfect for the first week of school. I know myself and my students LOVE these shoes, so encourage them to design their own based on a survey about them.What's Included?● Digital Version (G...
FREE End of School coloring page makes a wonderful keepsake recording all your child's school favorites plus a self-portrait on the last school day.
These end of year picture books & read alouds to say goodbye to students are the best way to wrap up the school year and countdown to the last day!
As a kindergarten teacher, I understand the importance of creating a safe and welcoming environment for my students, especially on their first day of school. That’s why I love incorporating Audrey Penn’s heartwarming book, “The Kissing Hand,” into my first-day activities. This sweet story not only helps to alleviate separation anxiety but also sets theContinue reading "First Day of School with The Kissing Hand"
Fun and engaging ideas to get to know your students at the beginning of the school year. Build a strong classroom community with these free resources.
Back to school lessons and ideas for upper elementary classroom. There are book suggestions, community building ideas, and tons of FREEBIES!
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