This week I will be chatting with you about the beginning of the year. My first two weeks of school is all about getting to know each other and teaching routines. I will share with you a product that I am working on (getting to know you activities for the whole year) and I have some favorites that are from some BIG TIME sellers.
I always
start off the year with some guided discoveries of pencils, markers, crayons,
glue sticks, colored pencils, etc – basically everything the kids will be using
all year. Each material gets its own
chunk of time.
To start
we talk about what the material is (pencil), where it lives (10 pencils per
table bucket), how to take care of it(don’t put it in your mouth, don’t play
with the erasers), and really anything else that I think they need to know (I
sharpen pencils, not kiddos). Then we
talk about what we can do with it (write letters, draw pictures, scribble,
shade). Then I give the kids this paper
and they try it out.
Finally,
I use a getting to know you activity to have the kids practice using the
material in a classroom sense. This is
the one we did together this year…
This is
from one of my FAVORITE packs for back to school by Babbling Abby – check out
the links below!
I also
started using READY CONFETTI – which was some of my firsties FAVORITE thing
about this year (and the parents LOVED it too!). Read my blog post about it HERE!
Check out my favorite back-to-school packs:
Fun with
Firsties by Babbling Abby
Back to
School Math and Literacy Fun by Deanna Jump
Thanks
for stopping by as always – I hope this has given you some great ideas of how
you may want to start off your year.
Keep hopping through the other blogs up this week – There are so many
great ideas in this week’s blogs.
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