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preparation
By Julianne

Another thing you can do is to check out the core curriculum for your grade. Your district should have a written standard for each grade level that you can reference. You can make decisions on where you want to start in
each subject and gather materials to use during the school year and organize them. You can make a tentative daily schedule of activities and a tentative year-long teaching plan for different subjects.
You can call or go visit other teachers on your grade level and ask their advice about things like lunchroom routines and teaming.
You can go visit your school library and get a picture

of what is available there. Be sure to meet your librarian and the school secretary and janitor, too. These three people will be lifelines for you during the school year.

You can line up and reread the novel you plan to use as a beginning read-aloud.

You can walk the playground looking for its advantages and disadvantages. Is there a garden area you can ask to use for science activities? What kinds of rules do you forsee having to make for recess?

You can check your budget and see where and how to order supplies. Is there any money available to you right now? What do you need?

I know this sounds like lots of stuff to do. But you'll cruise through most of it in the first few days of school even if you don't do it now.