Procedures

              hand raising

              morning arrival

              hanging things up - neatness

              afternoon dismissal

              fire drill

              snack procedure - snack prayer

              lunch line-up/prep/ prayer

              excused for bathroom/water

              Mailboxes

              Line-up Poem and hallway behavior

              Give Me Five

              Leap Frog and Listening Center

              No markers in notebooks or workbooks - colored pencils or crayons

              Math in pencil, crayon to color

              Quiet work times

              Rug behavior

              Leaving/ Returning with Mrs. Baynes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topics to Discuss:

              postcard

              summer reading calendar and list

              supplies

              homework - blue folder, bin, responsibility, reading record

              mailboxes

              Website      guest book

              Use/treatment of desk tag

              Procedure vs Rules

              Adults entering room - Who do we stop for and why?

 

Housekeeping!!

              How home each day?

              Photographs of procedures for open house - Tuesday?

              Thursday - send home questionnaire - needs to be stapled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson Plans

              Share Summer reading list and calendar

 

Morning Meeting

              Greeting Everyone

              Calendar

              Counting to 100

              100th Day Notebook - sticker on front            paste chart inside cover  teach tally marks           Sentence of the day  Number of the day

 

              Birthday - Kelly - favorite book to read aloud or one of the birthday books

 

Health

              Why do we eat snack? (not to have a break)  Healthy discussion

              Food Pyramid and eating healthy

              snack categories - no, okay, good

 

Religion

              God's Greatest Commandment

              Prayer - over 1st day snack

              Unit 1:  We Gather As Believers

              Mass on Friday at _____

 

 

Creative/Artish/ Color

              Front BB Letters

              Rocket Ship booklets, write and color

              Hearts on Religion Board - making good choices

              Smiles for back board - magnets

              First Day poem - read, discuss, paste, illustrate

              Circle of paste and illustrate

              Give Me five - paste and illustrate

              Line up - paste and illustrate

 

 

Language Arts

        Read Alouds:

              It Happens to Everyone by Bernice Myers  Aloud & Discuss

              The First Day of School (Robin Hill School) by Margaret McNamara    Aloud & Discuss the feelings and the teacher's "plan"

              How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague

              How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read?  Aloud & Discuss

              Stuart Goes to School  Aloud & Discuss

 

              Assess oral reading

              Assess Dolch words

 

              What is a dictionary? Atlas? Where to find references?

              First Day poem - read, discuss, paste, illustrate

              Friday - pretest of spelling words - teach procedure

 

 

Writing Possibilities:

              Rocket Ship booklets, write and color

              Arthur - How do you feel about coming back to school?  Discuss and then write and color

              What was the first day like?  C/C to Henry and Mudge poster

              the ABCs of Summer

              Summer Memories on Postcards

              Color letters for BB

              "Circle of Friends" - read, discuss, paste, illustrate

              Color person for Circle of