First Day of School Activities Students Love. The first day of school will be here before you know it. Most teachers face the big day with enthusiasm, but they dread the inevitable challenge: what to do on the first day of school. Every teacher’s approach is different. Whatever your goal, here are a few things to try to get the school year off to a great start! Goal: Getting to Know Your Students How well will your incoming students know you? If you’re teaching kindergarteners (or high school freshmen, who often seem like kindergarteners), you may need to spend the first day – or the first several days –getting everyone comfortable. Teaching strategies for improving friendship skills at the elementary school... The School of Education at Gardner-Webb University has received national... We examine the classroom management characteristics of effective teachers.
A few useful classroom management ways to get information from your students on... 7 great technology in the classroom apps to use this year. Plan a Scavenger Hunt Do a Self-Portrait. 136 FREE Back To School Worksheets & First Day Of School Activities. Ready to start your class off right? The first day of class is an important time for teachers and students alike - it’s the time to learn all your students’ names, set the tone for your classroom, and make sure everyone’s feeling relaxed and ready to learn. You probably don’t want to charge in with too much new material on the very first day - after all, it’s important for your students to feel relaxed around you, and around each other, so they’ll be comfortable enough to learn and produce the new ESL concepts you’ll be sharing with them.
The question is, how can you help them feel relaxed? With BusyTeacher.org’s 264 resources for the first day of school, of course! Want to start things off as simply as possible? Whether your class if full of young kids or full-grown business English students, BusyTeacher.org’s 264 first-day-of-school worksheets offer something just right for your class. You can dive into our collection of first-day-of-school worksheets in a few different ways. First Day of School Activities. I'd love to hear what activities you do with your students on the first day of school. Link up below with one of your favorite activities or share your plans for the whole day. This year I created a small book for the first day/week of second grade. My students will write about themselves, the school, the classroom, and me (the teacher).
I will use it to asses their writing. I also created an end of the year book (So Long Second Grade) with similar ideas. I will use that book at the end of the year to hopefully show them how much their writing has improved. If you would like to check out the two books click here for the Welcome to Second Grade book and here for the So Long Second Grade book.
Megan (Linkup closed) First Days of School. Now for the lesson... I prepare a list of facts about myself, ranging from where I was born to I manage my own fantasy baseball team, and other similarly "interesting" facts.. I fold each one and put them all in my fact jar. I have a large piece of white butcher paper taped to the board with my name circled in the center. (this introduces the freeform concept mapping activity I use regularly in class) I ask for volunteers and one by one the students illustrate the fact and students guess what it is... when someone gets in right, they illustrate the next fact... Each class produces a free form map of me! I tell them that they will need to learn this valuable information about me. The next day - I leave all the classes maps of me up, and pass out a 20 question "quiz" in multiple choice format, and tell them to feel free to use the "visual resources" on the wall.
We then go back to the KWL list and I have each class contribute 3 new things they know about me...