First days of school activities.

clarabelle · #1 (**permalink**) 01-08-2010, 04:02 PM

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Hey guys,

I thought it might be nice to put together some good activities for the first day of school. I am going to need to plan for the first two days for my Year 1/2 class and I just want some more
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s to fill up my days. So far I have thought of:

Numeracy - Counting games/activities and 1 more/less activities, simple +/- by couting.

Literacy - Holiday writing, write a postcard to the class, write about myself and my family

PSHE - Circle time games, getting to know you, class/school rules

PE - Parachute games, team games,

ART - self portrait

Anyway, I would really appreciate some more
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s/worksheets/resources.

Thanks in advance!

clarabelle · #2 (**permalink**) 03-08-2010, 03:19 PM

Anyone????

janeb · #3 (**permalink**) 03-08-2010, 05:52 PM

Hi Clarabelle,

As it's just for the first few days, how about tying in the other subjects with your literacy
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s as a mini topic, leaving tasks open-ended so that you can use it as assessment as well - e.g.

adding the cost of (1st and 2nd class) stamps and postcards or take-away prices at seaside
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and chip shop,
describing where they went during the holidays to a partner who tries to draw the scene just from listening (great as a 'wor
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with others' activity) - this could be used as the front of a postcard,
P.E. warm-up exploring a holiday environment e.g. running along the shore, duc
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under low branches in the forest, jumping over streams...and then lots of parachute/water games e.g. sha
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parachute according to sea conditions, getting rougher..., add some plastic
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to toss around?
ICT picture drawing for postcards

clarabelle · #4 (**permalink**) 06-08-2010, 05:43 PM

Thanks! That sounds fantastic!!!! I like the sound of the art activity especially.

clarabelle · #5 (**permalink**) 19-08-2010, 01:23 PM

Hi guys!

I'm in Canada at the moment (Hubby is wor
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out here for 6 weeks so I've joined him for 3 weeks - what a lucky gal am I?) and I went to an art gallery this week with totempoles and things and it gave me an
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that I could do a little Canada Topic for the first
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of days and design totempoles to represent their families and themselves. Maybe even make them if I collect enough kitchen
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!!!!

janeb · #6 (**permalink**) 20-08-2010, 03:47 PM

That sounds great - enjoy your hols!

clarabelle · #7 (**permalink**) 23-08-2010, 03:09 PM

I am so not loo
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forward to going back to work. Am doing a jobshare but the teacher I'm doing the jobshare with is around on the first days of school (when it's my teaching days) and she said if I could plan the activities and we could 'team teach' on the first
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of days! Argh! Really am not into that. Now I'm going to have to email her the activities in advance. Grr....

clarabelle · #8 (**permalink**) 01-09-2010, 06:32 PM

Well, I had my first day today (1/2 a day INSET and 1/2 a day getting class ready). What a nightmare! Sooooo much information and I've forgotten most of it already! Still don't really know what I've planned for tomorrow is going to be suitable for my kids (1/2 coming up from Reception and 1/2 coming up from Yr 1). Feel like I am overthin
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this a bit but I just want it all to go smoothly. Can you let me know how this sounds:

When kids come in I'm going to show them where to put their stuff, do the register and re-introduce myself and show them around classroom/
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s etc. Then have a bit of circle time (name games etc.) and I have some name labels for them to fill in for their
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s and for the reward board. Then they are going to work in mixed ability (year 1 and 2) pairs to fill out an All About Me sheet and we can have a little guessing game afterwards on the carpet too. Do you think I need to give the little ones some constructive play in the class too??? Tomorrow I'm also going to get them to do some holiday writing (free writing to see what they can do) and picture drawing. Then in the afternoon I have some ICT time (illustrate a school rule on
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magic) and PE time to end the day with parachute games.

On top of this I need to be litening to individual readers and doing an ERR/phonics assessment for each child. I shall have an LSA in the morning and I've asked my jobshare teacher to come in after play for the 2nd session to get to know the kids and listen to some readers.

I'm a bit worried beacuse I've been given PE time at the end of each thurs (2:35-3:20) but school ends at 3;20 and by the time the little ones are changed (10 mins either side) there will only be about 25 mins of PE in the hall - that's not much surely each week?!!!!!

janeb · #9 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 03:24 PM

Sorry, only just seen this post - hope it all went well (it sounded great)

Might be a bit dumb here, but what is ERR?

p.s. Hope you had a super time in Canada - please feel free to share!

clarabelle · #10 (**permalink**) 05-09-2010, 01:06 PM

Thanks Jane! Canada was awesome but went far too quickly for our li
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! We went to Niagara Falls, up the CN Tower for dinner, on a ferry to Toronto Island, bowling, cinema, theme park, mountain bi
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to name a few!!!!! Back to work with a bump now though!

As for the 1st days back, my class are mostly lovely as a whole. There are the odd ones with issues and one major behavioural problem which seems to aggravate everything so I will need to sit on that one if you know what I mean! I only have LSA help in the morning so can't rely on her to work with said child. The child is on an IEP but not statemented (should be 1:1). How do you all
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e with this as well as teaching rest of class?

ERR is like phonics, reading and spelling. They learn sight words, break up words, sound them out and put sounds together to read. To be honest, I'm very new to this so it's being a learning curve!!!!

Hopefully next week will go as smoothly as this week. I just need to know how to deal with this one child in the whole class environment. The child has a behaviour reward chart which seems to be wor
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and as for sanctions, I will use the same as the rest of the class. The LSA is quite good at ta
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him out if he looks like he's going to have a strop (apparently he does this - what do I do if he has a strop and there isn't an extra adult with me?????).

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