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Kindergarten First Week of School Activities are featured in this blog post. Name activities and lesson plans for back to school!
Are you getting excited?! Here are some kindergarten first week of school activities! You will also see how my day is scheduled!
Focus Wall
I start each week out with a focus wall that contains that week’s learning objectives.
Self-Portraits
This is a fun and easy first day activity. I sent these home on the last day of school.
Centers and Stations
Our writing station starts the year off on the right foot.
Name Activity
And we loved making these buses last year from Deanna Jump’s unit.
First Day Books
Here are a few books that we LOVE!
Downloadable Lesson Plans
You can download my first week of school plans by clicking on the image below.
You may also be interested in…
If you are looking for other back to school and classroom management ideas, you may be interested in the following blog posts:
- How do I fit it all in… a look at my daily schedule
- How I manage stations (Click HERE to view)
- How to introduce stations at the beginning of the year
- What does a guided reading lesson look like
- Literacy station ideas
- Math station ideas
- Early Finishers “I’m DONE!”
- Writers workshop nuts and bolts
- Reading workshop nuts and bolts
- Math workshop questions answered
- Classroom behavior and expectations
- Organizing for Instruction (click HERE to view)
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Yay! I love that you are still doing this. I will be here next week to link up!!! Those writing center cards are my favorite! I LOVE, LOVE how you have them displayed!
Amazing! Do you happen to have a link for the focus wall resources?
Thank you Stephanie! It is linked. You can also see it in the thumbnails below. 🙂
I love your Peek at my week. It has helped and inspired me with great ideas over the years. THANK YOU!
Yay!!! I'm so glad Peek at my Week is back! I love seeing everyone's lesson plans and getting new ideas! We start back next week, so I'll link up with my first week plans then. Thank you for this invaluable resource!
Kaydi
Learning Adventures
I love that your Peek at my Week is back just in time for my first week of school too! I LOVE that you have all of your manipulative linked up as well as the products you use! What a great way for everyone to see what you are using! Thank you for sharing!
Mrs. 3rd Grade
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Hi DeeDee, I was wondering how you decide the order that you teach your letters. I have seen so many different ways and I am at a lost as to which is the best way. Thank you for the Peek at my Week posts! I love them and everything you do.
Hi! When Deanna and I set out to map the letters for Guiding Readers, we put a lot of thought into the path of motion of each of these letters. We also looked at what experts recommended and went from there. I hope that makes sense.
Hi Deedee,
I read in one of your blogs about the students filling in their own behavior chart for the day. Is that one that you made, or did you get it from somewhere? I like that idea of them filling it in, because it makes them more aware of how they act at school, and helps them reflect on the day.
Hello
I love your classroom. I was wondering what are the self portrait in? Are they frames?
YES! I got them at the dollar store… Super cheap frames:)
Hi there! Is your lesson plan for full day kindergarten? For some reason when I click on the image it won’t open anything or download 🙁 Is there another way to access it? I see that you start literacy stations and writers workshop on the first week. How do you go about introducing your stations and the procedures, and are you actually getting them rotating the first week? I usually don’t start for several weeks into school so I’d love to know how you start it so early on! Also, I purchased your writing units and I am so excited to start using them soon to drive my writing instruction with my class this year 🙂
Goodness! Sorry! I just fixed the link for you!
Here is a blog post that will give you a great start towards station introduction!
Starting Stations
Hi Deedee,
I when I click on your lesson plan image it won’t open 🙁
Can you please send it to me? patricia.sweeney@hffmcsd.org
Thank you!
Tricia
AHH!!! I just fixed it! Can you try it now? So sorry about that?