First Week of School Plans | Kinder or First Grade | Beginning of Year

Need your first week of school planned for you? These lessons and activities for the first week of first grade or kindergarten are super engaging and low-prep and perfect for back to school! It's important to begin setting clear expectations, creating a classroom community, and teaching rules and procedures right away on day one. Doing this will help you and your students have a smooth year together!

With so many things to think about while you're getting ready for a new group of littles, it's sometimes hard to even grasp the fact that you have to write your lesson plans and figure out what to teach on top of allllll those other things! Let me help take one thing off your plate by giving you the entire first week of Kinder or First Grade.

This resource is packed full with read aloud activities, craftivities, clear expectation visuals, supply practice activities, reading activities, writing activities, math activities, social studies activities, pocket anchor charts, project and trace anchor charts, and tons of extra practice resources to help fill your day!

Make planning easy with this fun, engaging, and meaningful resource!

What's Included?

Day One:

•Find a Friend Who Likes…

•First Day Feelings

•Read “First Day Jitters” by Julie Danneberg

•Make Jitter Juice, complete class graph, and complete activity

•Classroom & Lunch Expectations

•Read “David Goes to School” by David Shannon

•Complete anchor chart and activity

•Recess Expectations

•Read “The Recess Queen” by Alexis O’Neill

•Complete anchor charts and activity

•What is Math?

•Read ”Chicka Chicka 1,2,3” by Michael Sampson and Bill Martin Jr.

•Complete activity

•Arrival and Dismissal Expectations

•Create class anchor chart

Day Two:

•A Good Friend…

•Read “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates” by Ryan T. Higgins

•Complete anchor chart and activity

•Read ”Too Much Glue” by Jason Lefebvre

•Complete glue and cutting practice activity

•Getting to Know Our Names

•Read “Chrysanthemum” by Kevin Henkes

•Complete class graph and activity

•Using Math Tools vs. Toys

•Complete anchor chart and activity

•Getting to Know Me

•Read “A Letter From Your Teacher” by Shannon Olsen

•Complete class anchor chart and activity

Day Three:

•What Are Characters?

•Read “I Like Myself” by Karen Beaumont

•Complete activity

•Small Problems Vs. Big Problems

•Read “You Get What You Get” by Julie Glassman

•Complete anchor chart and activity

•How We Get Home

•Complete class graph and activity

•Working With A Buddy

•Read “Do Unto Otters” by Laurie Keller

•Complete anchor chart and activity

Day Four:

•Characters and Setting

•Read ”Peanut Butter and Cupcake” by Terry Border

•Complete anchor chart and activity

•Be a Super Reader

•Complete anchor chart and activity

•Introduce classroom library

•Practice reading to self for 5 minutes

•What is a Rhyme?

•Complete activity

•10 Frame Game

•Read “10 Black Dots” by Donald Crews

•Complete activity

•Read “All Are Welcome” by Alexandra Penfold

•Complete activity

Day Five:

•Creating a Class Contract

•Read “Our Class is a Family” by Shannon Olsen

•Complete class anchor chart and activity

•Celebrating Our Classmates

•Read “Be You!” by Peter H. Reynolds

•Complete activity

•The Power of YET- Setting Goals

•Read “The Magical Yet” by Angela Diterlizzi

•Complete activity

•Introducing Center Time (how it looks, sounds, and feels)

•Complete class anchor chart

•Introduce Center Time (not with academic stations)

•Practice using a timer to start and stop centers

Extra Printables and Practice:

•Color by Codes- color words, vowels, shapes, numbers

•Color Words

•Alphabet Tracing

•Handwriting Practice

•Beginning Sounds

•Uppercase and Lowercase Letters

•Number Tracing

•Number Writing Practice

•Number Sense

•Counting

•Dice Practice

•Spinner Practice

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