What do you do for the first week of school? What should I focus on for back-to-school with my kids? Help! I need kindergarten lesson plans for the first week of school. Guess what? We have you covered.
I’m BACK! I have loved being a stay-at-home dad for the last year, but I am excited and nervous to be back in the classroom! And ready or not, the first week of kindergarten is here! So let’s see what we’re going to be doing…
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans: First Week Procedures
The first week of school is all about getting to know your kids, them getting to know you, and establishing procedures. Here are the 7 procedures I teach on day 1 and focus on for week 1:
First Week Of School Read Alouds
Using read-alouds the first week helps students with their feelings and emotions, helps them make connections to books, and is fun! Plus, you can use comprehension activities to introduce students to the curriculum and academic concepts in a fun way! Here are the read-alouds we like to use for week 1 of school and some activities to go with them!
The King Of Kindergarten And The Queen Of Kindergarten
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten
We read Big Plans and share our hopes and dreams for kindergarten!
We also use our Meet the Teacher book for a first-week read-aloud. This is a fun way for the kids to get to know me. After we read it, it goes into our class library and becomes a very popular choice for independent reading.
We also have two new read-alouds that I’m excited to read this week:
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Names
The first week involves lots of practice with writing names. On day one, we all write our names on our name chart, and then we practice on paper. The rest of the week is name recognition, name writing, and friendship bracelets to practice our names!
How To Use School Supplies
In our classroom, we let students establish the procedures and expectations for our school supplies. We create the graphic organizer, then we work on our cutting skills with our cut-apart puzzles!
First Week Of School Lesson Plans: Math
Our first week of math is focused on playing with manipulatives, number recognition, and counting. We also start Number Bootcamp!
Number Recognition Game-pass out number cards. Say the number. Students point out the number.
Counting Game: Pass out plates and manipulatives. Say a number. Students put the correct number of manipulatives on the plate.
Kindergarten Lesson Plans: Art, Snacks, and Hats
Our first week is packed with learning, but it’s also packed with fun! We color our banners, make some snacks, and of course, we make first-day and first-week hats!
Friendship salad-We read Smorgie’s Lesson In Kindness and use the story to talk about what kind of classroom we want! fruit salad symbolizes everything we want in classrooms (hard workers, happiness, kind kids, kids who share, etc), and no rotten bananas!
Pencil cookies-we make these on the first day of school! True story. We make cookies on day 1!
First Day Of School Hats
First Day And First Week Banners
I have these on the floor on the first day so it’s an option for the kids to color the banner or play with toys when they arrive! When we finish them, we hang them up in the hallways for our first hallway display!
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First Week Of School Resources
Here are some more first-week-of-school resources to make your planning and prep easier!
