First School Days

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First Days of School in Kindergarten

I will be ready:
The first day of school stats before the teacher arrives at school.
For my first day, I will make sure I had a good night of rest, and that I get up early and take the time to get ready so I look professional to my students. The parents of my students will have already received a welcome letter a couple weeks before school start, with a “About Me” sheet to fill out with their child and to email back to me ( with a picture so I can learn my student’s name). That way, I will already know a couple of facts about each of my students. I will create a “About Me” book of my class to read together on the first day of school. An “About Me” sheet about myself will be included in this book.

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We will practice following the teacher’s direction with a game on Simon’s says (but instead” Miss Viry says”)
Rule # 2: Raise your hand before speaking: We will sing and dance to the Sesame Street video "Raise your Hand" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYS3JIW18ao Rule # 3: Keep your hand and feet to yourself. We will read “Hands off, Harry!” from Rosemary Wells, and discuss the actions of Harry and why they are not appropriate.
Rule # 4: In the classroom, keep an indoor voice. (will demonstrate and practice indoor and outdoor voices)
Rule # 5: Be nice to everyone ( we will talk about what it means)
We will then introduce the consequences of a rule being broken, and explain that a consequence is not a punishment, it is the consequence for a choice the student makes.

Time for a break:
After all this time seating we need to take a break! Students will go to their desk, reflect on the classroom rules, choose one of them to represent in a drawing. Teacher will right the rule # on the drawing, and all will be hung on the wall near the classroom rules.

A couple more procedures are taught so we can go to

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