So, for each activity, I will remind you of some of the routines you will want to teach alongside each activity so you can begin to think about how you want to shape that first week in your classroom. This might sound kind of dumb to you, but I’ll never forget when that lightbulb moment happened for me– I knew I needed to teach my class expectations, and I knew I wanted to do some fun activities with my students, but it was pretty cool when I finally realized that I could put the two together – and it was a game changer for me.īecause teaching these routines is new for you as well, keeping routines top of mind will likely be difficult unless you are constantly reminding yourself to remind your students of what the expectations are in this classroom.

I want to start by saying that in all of my work with beginning teachers across the country, developing and consistently reinforcing class routines is always one of the biggest challenges for new teachers, and I think this is because many of the routines you will be teaching will be new for you as well. If you haven’t listened to Episode #17 and Episode #18, you may want to go back and listen to those shows before this one so that everything I am teaching you in this episode makes sense. Now last week, I gave you SO much information about how to teach your rules and routines within the larger context of your first week of school, so today I want to dive in deep about exactly what kinds of activities you might want to select to do with your students during those very important first few days as you are introducing and practicing your class routines with your students. I think it's because the start of each school year represents a fresh start - an opportunity to do things better. The first week makes me feel like I am seven years old again, and I get all of the same butterflies and feelings of nervousness and excitement I've always had whenever I start something new. I am probably a little bit of a geek with how excited I get about the first week of school. We are going to have SO much fun this week!

$1st class work$

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