Fwd: share 1st day plans?

[Andi]

Hi Guilie, 

Great ideas! 

Does anybody know what the 1st grade story is? And does anyone else have to tell one? I was informed that the 1st grade teacher at my school tells a story to the school about the 1st grade class. Help!!!

Andi Covarrubias 

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On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:40 AM, "Mrs. Giulietta Garland" <mbcs.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All -
I hope you're enjoying lots of rest-up time!  I'm working on my first month of lesson plans and am curious how everyone is setting up their first day of school plans.  I'd be happy to share what I have so far and love to hear from others.  Also, if you have your block rotation ready, could you post that too? 
Also - I'm a little confused about how to post things on this group. How do we create files on a Google Group? (I'm only familiar with a Yahoo Group page).
Thanks,
Giulie
Below is a rough draft of what I've come up with for the first day:

Lesson Plan #1  August 23

 

8:30 a.m. – shake hands, direct children to cubbies and benches to put things away and change shoes.   Children stay at bench until all are in.

8:35 “When I call your name, please find your desk and sit down as quiet as a mouse”

“Good Morning and Welcome 1^st Grade” (sung)

Instruct:  “now sing:  Good Morning Mrs. Garland”

Introduce assistant – sing to her

8:40 Song: “Standing like a tree” 3 x

Verse: “The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power, gives strength unto my limbs.  In sunlight shining clear, I do revere the strength of humankind which has so joyously been planted in my soul. That I, with all my might, may love to work and learn. To me come light and strength; from me rise love and thanks.”

Sit down quietly (practice, if necessary).

Teach “thinking caps” – we will do everytime when we are getting ready to listen

8:50 Talk about 1^st grade, the importance of what they are going to learn, why we come to school – the work we do with our hands.  Discuss things that they did with their hands just to be able to come to school this morning. Practice raising hands to take turns to talk,   talk about first assembly (line up at the door, new line leader every day for our first month of school, Mrs. Garland will choose children who are ready, quiet, no talking to get in line next,)  we’ll sit on the grass next to 2^nd grade, listening and looking only, no talking,  I will call your name and you will stand up and walk to your 8^th grade buddy who will have something to give to  you.  You will stand in front of your buddy facing the audience and your parents may be there to take photos of this very special day). 

9:05  Short straight line/ curve story – Nate Straight and Coco Curve

Draw straight line in the air

Draw straight line on the board

Draw curve in the air

Draw curve on the board

Look to see straight lines and curves in the room

9:20 Water break – explain procedure.  Have groups of children go with assistant to the bathroom.

 

9:25 Line up to go to assembly

10:15 After assembly – have children place their flowers in a large vase (have it by the door so the children can then go to change shoes)

Snack:

“We will eat snack first and then go outside to play. I will pass out placemats and then I will excuse you to get your lunch baskets.  You will get your lunch basket without talking and bring it back to your desk and wait for everyone else”

pass out placemats

“I am looking to see who is ready to get their snack”  Excuse by desks (or groups?)

Sing blessing:

For the golden corn and the apples on the trees

For the golden butter and honey from the bees

For fruits and nuts and berries that grow beside the way

For birds and beasts and flowers we’re thankful every day

Help the children with snack – walk around and notice what they are eating.   Remind to put trash back in basket.  Show everyone the compost bucket and talk about what goes in there.

Recess:  talk about the “yoo-hoo” signal at our school.  Talk about using the bathroom during recess. Change shoes and line up (practice), walk quietly outside.

At yoo-hoo, practice getting into two lines again and walk back quietly with no talking.

Everyone go and get a drink of water.

1st Period: Handwork Class– Explain how to greet special subject teachers – stand up quietly, push chair in, arms crossed  “Good Afternoon Class One”,  “Good Afternoon, Mrs. Blalock

 

2^nd Period:

Head shoulders knees and toes at desks

Pass out chalkboards and chalk.  Show how to “temper” the boards with chalk.

Practice drawing a straight line – I check before they erase.

Practice drawing a curved line – check again.

Free drawing on chalkboard for 10 minutes.

Erase and put chalkboards away. (children keep in their desks?)

Story:  Lunsmore of Knockgrafton story

Lunch: go over instructions for getting ready for lunch (same as snack).

After lunch recess sing quiet song.

3^rd period – math – plum pits – short story about plum pits – delicious jam that all the plums made (have some to taste?). Distribute counting bags and felt mats.  Have them count all of the pits in their bags (12).  Make a pattern:  how can we arrange the stones?   Straight lines? Curves?  Create a pattern and then we will have a “gallery” – everyone walk around the room with hands behind back and look at different patterns.  Put away –  show how to roll up mat and tie it.  2 children will pick up bags and mats.

Free play (during free play, bring each child to their desk and make sure they can sit properly with feet flat on the floor.  If not, use carpet squares to make foot rest) and clean up.

End of day (2:20) Teach one chore - we will be doing chores at the end of each day - here's how we sweep outside - have students demonstrate how to do it. 

Teach goodbye verse and song. "My day in school is done and now I journey home.  All that I have seen and heard and done are seeds that will grow within my soul.  And when I am asleep a harvest they may reap."  Song: "Sing your way home at the end of the day, sing your way home, cast your troubles away.  Sing as you go and wherever you roam, it will lighten your load if you sing your way home."

Change shoes, Line up in one line to go home, shake hands.

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“....We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”   ~Marianne Williamson

[CHARLENE GRAY]

First Grade Teacher at Highland Hall apparently tells a pedagogical story to the 12th grade, at a whole school assembly,  in front of the whole school on the first day, and the 12th grade teacher tells a story to the first grade in the same assembly.  From what I gather it's to be fairy tale.

Likewise: Pedagogical story to the 12th grade? Yikes! on the first day with my first graders! ????  

Charlene Gray

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Subject: Fwd: share 1st day plans?
From: andicov...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:58:11 -1000
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[Mrs. Giulietta Garland]

Dear Andi - Ask your colleagues at your school what they told when they were the 1st grade teacher.  We used to do that but it took up too much time at the assembly (we also do a rose ceremony with 8th and 1st), so I'm off the hook, but when the 1st grade teacher did tell a story, it was a brief fairy tale.    I'm attaching a story that I told my new class on their kindergarten graduation day (I met them under the rainbow arch as they graduated and then led them off for a story).  Its kind of a nice one for its analogy of needing to learn to do things for themselves, but its a bit long for an assembly.  But may give you some ideas.
Best wishes!
Giulie

[kim vennerholm]

Thanks Gulie for sharing these plans! 
 
Our school also requires that I tell a story on the first day to the first grade in front of the whole school. I am also looking for a story to tell, any ideas??
 
Thanks,
Kim Vennerholm
Madrona School
Bainbridge Island, WA 
 
 

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