I've been a busy little bee FINALLY trying to get everything cut out, laminated, hot glued, and decorated for my new room (and I am NO WHERE near ready!!) I just have to keep reminding myself to breathe -- in through the nose and out through the mouth, slow and steady... I always manage to get it all done so why would this year be any different. A few days of long hours in my room and I know it'll look perfect. I promise I'll get lots of before and after pictures to share with you.
One of the things I have accomplished so far is to make tentative first day plans. I realized I have some wonderful resources from all these great teacher bloggers out there I better start thinking about how I can plan to use their goodies in my classroom, and why not start right away?!?! So without further adue here are my plans for the second day of school. They are pretty tentative since I'm not 100% sure when my lunch will be or my preps so I planned my second day assuming my lunch was the same time as last year and that I have no preps (which I really hope is not the case! But better to be over planned than under planned!)
** Note, anything in green is a link that will take you to either a product or blogpost!**
Day 1: What I Do on the First Day of School head there to see what I plan on doing the first day of school!
Day 2: So assuming my day has no preps (fingers crossed this doesn't really happen!) My day will be broken into 2 chunks - the morning is from 8:45-10:30 (That is, assuming lunch is the same time this year as it was the last 2 years)... then we have the afternoon which is 11:25-3:05, it is a HUGE chunk of time, 4 periods and with kinders not having a prep during this time can make them really restless!
I don't have my schedule so I don't know when I should technicially be doing reading, writing, social studies, etc., but I'm hoping that the second day I can follow the plans I already made for myself without any trouble!
*All times listed are approximates and in hopes that all activities go smoothly and all the kiddies are happy!
8:45 - Pick kids up
9:00 - Line up outside of classroom and do a quick greeting
9:05 - Go to seats and introduce unpacking routine (where does everything go). Call kids a few at a
time to unpack slowly.
9:30 - Go to carpet
- Do pledge
- Review 'Magic 5'
- Morning Message
- Review the daily schedule and the flow of the day
- Introduce clip chart behavior plan (that is if I can get it made in time for the beginning of the year!)
- Read a book ~ any suggestions?? I'm reading "Miss. Bindergarten" on the first day and all the
"Chester" books the second week.... I'd love some ideas!
- Introduce circle talk and do a circle talk about the book
10:00 - Do Cafeteria Expectations Craftivity from Roudy in Room 300
* I'm really excited about this craftivity!! I recently found it (it's free which makes it even better!)
and I really think my kids will enjoy doing it.
10:20 - Review line-up procedures and get ready for lunch
10:35-11:25 Lunch
11:25 - Pick kids up and review walking in the halls
11:35 - Sit at desk and review how to put away lunch items
11:45 - Go to carpet and introduce 'Brain Breaks' (I've found a lot of different ones from many different
authors, I'm compiling the ones I think will work best with my kiddies and will share as well as
tell where I found them once I'm done. I thought this would be a good time to introduce 'Brain
Breaks because the kinders don't usually get to run around the first few days they have lunch, so
they are full of energy and need to let some of it out.
12:00 - Introduce the 'Glue License' Activity, another great FREEBIE I found, this one is from
Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business. I've never tried this one yet with my kiddies, but I think they will
love it and I think it will be a great way to teach them how to use glue! (Incase you were
wondering I plan to do the morning craftivity with glue sticks.)
- I'm also going to have the 'Backpack vs. Lunch Box' cut and paste activity for the kids to do
once they get their license! Good practice to "prove" they really are allowed to use the glue! This
one came from First Grade a la Carte and is another FREEBIE!
12:30 - Self-Portrait
- Introduce what a self-portrait is and show examples.
- I am using a 'Yearbook' this year which I purchased from Katie Mense on TpT, so I am going to
have the kids do their self-portraits on the first page and write their names. (I will not be putting their
books together before school starts, there just isn't enough time to get everything copied, I will put it
together piece by piece.) I'm in love with this packet and with Katie! (Ok that might have come out
wrong... tee hee, what I mean is that I needed some things altered to meet my schools calendar and
diversity and she did it for me! SHE IS AWESOME!)
1:00 - Math Time
- I will introduce our Math routines and my brand new weather tracker (my Monday Made it!! Scroll
down to see it!) We will also do the first lesson in our book.
2:00 - School Tour
- I figure by now the kids are probably ready to get up and move!!! So we will go on a tour of the
school, I might do a game/activity with it but haven't decided on that yet.
2:30 - Snack
- While the kids eat their snack I will read one of our 'Star' books. (I will post more about that
another time, this post is getting WAY too long!)
2:50 - Clean up the room and introduce pack-up routine and dismissal routines
3:05 - Say goodbye to my little kiddies!
So that is a VERY detailed explanation of what I hope I can accomplish on the 2nd day of school, it will be exciting and fun to see what I actually get done! :)
NOW on to my Monday Made It!! I'm super excited about this and have to say that I am in LOVE!!! I cannot believe that I made this... ok my husband helped a ton and so did the nice people at the home improvement store, but still I love my Monday Made It!
I downloaded Primary Inspired Weather poster (another great FREEBIE!!!) and made my very own weather chart.
Don't you just love this?!?! We went to the local hardware store and purchased a small piece of very thin wood (similar to plywood). I had the store cut it to 9" x 11.5"unfortunately when they cut the wood because it was so thin it splintered a lot. While trying to decide what to do about this dilema I saw this BRIGHT yellow tape and ding ding ding I knew exactly how to cover up the rough edges. When we got home I printed the poster and laminated it. My husband painted the wood white for me (the board was a half inch bigger than the paper all around so I thought it would look nice with a white boarder. However, once we spray glued the weather chart down and added the fun yellow tape you couldn't see the white boarder - oh well. I then cut some purple ribbon and hot glued it onto the back a poof I had a great hanging weather chart! I still need to make the clothes pin clips for around the chart but I'm in love with the way it looks and so is my little princess. She has been running around the house with it all day reviewing the weather with anyone who will listen! Guess we will be making another one for our house!
So that my friends is my MONDAY MADE IT!
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