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Home : 2009 : Jun : 13
http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?id=13271&external=http://www.kinderkorner.com/chklist.html&original=http://www.proteacher.com/030005.shtml&title=First%20Day%20Checklist Someone once posted a game I LOVE to play the first day of school. It's called, "Choo, Choo, who are you?" I do a lot based around this activity. You act like you are the front car of a train, you walk around the room making train noises, and stop in front of a child (the first child is a child who is energetic and outgoing). Stop and say, "Choo, choo, who are you?" in a very animated voice. The students must say their names using complete sentences, "My name is Michael" and then they join the train. I choose my English Learners and shy students last. I play this game every day the first week of school so they can learn each others names, and again whenever a new student pops up in class throughout the year. As my train grows, I try to go faster/up hills and slower/down hills, so it's like a roller coaster. I read "The Little Engine that Could" for fun one day. I also give them a page I made with train track boarders that says, "My name is ________" so they can draw a self portrait and write their names. I make this into a class book. One year, I added photos that I had labeled with their names. At the end of the year, I give them a writing assignment that where they also draw a picture of themselves (My name is Michael. I am 5. I play soccer. I like to eat pizza."). I make a book of all their writing from the whole year to show how they've grown. I put the train page on the inside cover of the book, and the writing sample on the right side of the book, so when the book is open, the pages face each other. It's nice to see how much they've changed! I take an 9x12 piece of yellow construction paper. I write their first initial on the paper with pencil. I take scraps of construction paper from the previous school year (my team never throws stuff away, so it's in a box near the paper cutter). I cut them into squares. I teach the students how to use the glue using the phrase "Just a dot, not a lot". Then I give them their papers and have them practice putting a dot of glue on the line, and attaching a square of the scratch paper. It's very colorful. There's always a student or two who went to preschool who know how to make patterns, which makes it a great assessment tool! Then I put them up in the windows - almost my whole room is windows, so we have no bb space - and it makes it really colorful for the first few weeks of school. I always read my very favorite book in the whole world to the students the first week of school. It's my way of passing on my passion for reading. It's called, "There's a Monster at the End of this Book" with Grover. I love the book, because you can read it really animated, pretending to be afraid of turning the pages. And the surprise at the end of the book is the monster is Grover! Also, "First Day Jitters" is a great book. I teach rules using Bono the monkey book. You have to buy the black line masters off of the internet through www.pasitos.net. We read the book each day for the first week so the students can memorize the book and read with me. Then, on Friday, we take a tour of our school campus to learn where stuff is. It's like the Gingerbread Man type of scavenger hunt, where you go looking for him, but he's too fast, and leaves hints everywhere. In the end, he's in the classroom with Monkey treats for everyone (I work in the desert, and it's sometimes +110 on the first day, so it's hot and we have Otter Pops!). HOpe this gets you started. Search the board for old postings as well. There are so many good ideas to find there!
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