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 Planning
Lessons Download free
lesson planning software. Very, very easy to use, and
it looks just like your regular gradebook. You can save your
lesson plans from year to year, also. See
Learn to MOUSE's collection of lesson plan sites
Activities
& Ice Breakers
Create a search-a-word puzzle
with your students' names with PuzzleMaker
from Discovery. Students can work the puzzles while you pass
out books or do other "housekeeping" chores the first day
of school
Time
Fillers
Short activities to fill those extra 5 minutes here and there
Ice-Breakers:
Getting to Know You Ideas for the first day of school
14
Great Activities
for the first days of school
14
More Great Activities
for the first days of school
First
Day of School
Activities & ideas
 Classroom
Management 20
Classical Teaching Mistakes
Don't make these mistakes this year! Do
you know that some discipline problems in the classroom are teacher-caused?
Read up on them here
and don't let it happen in your classroom this year! Have
students and their parents, as well as yourself, sign compacts at
the beginning of the year. Take a look at this example. Brush
up on discipline
problems and be ready to handle any behavior.
Remember, start out firm and you can always ease up later! And
what's the problem with "busy
work?" Lots. Read about it here. Trying
to decide how to place your students' desks? Seating
arrangements have a lot of influence over classroom
management. Read about it here.
Also, read pros
and cons of different seating arrangements (alphabetical,
letting them choose, etc.) here. Give
homework the first week. Have students write an excuse or fill
out a form for not completing homework EVERY TIME it is not
completed. Store all of these excuses
in the students' folders. You will have something to show
parents who may not believe you otherwise. Classroom
Management for the Beginning of the Year
Tips and links to sites to help you with organization, discipline
& management of your classroom View
a lot more classroom management web sites here.
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Getting
Organized Back
to School Checklist
A list of things to get ready
before the first day of school How
Do You Get to School?
Chart to record which students ride the bus, walk, etc. Personalized
hall passes
Print a few to have handy. Class
List
Print this multipurpose class list to use instead of your grade book
until your class roll becomes stablized. August
Calendars
Choose from customizable, coloring calendar, blank
calendars to fill in the dates, and more. Also, take a look at
the activity
and event calendars for August. These are great for
journal topics. Classroom
Helpers
Print signs for classroom jobs (bookshelf keeper, chalkboard eraser,
collect papers, etc.) Center
Signs
Print these and label your centers -- library center, math
center, listening center, and many more More
Center Signs Classroom
Labels
TONS of labels for your classroom, including such labels as books,
blocks, calendar, scissors, and dozens more. Helps beginning
readers recognize words for the objects.
More
teacher resources here
Bulletin Board
/ Classroom Decor
Wall
alphabet to print
From Jan Brett...choose traditional manuscript, modern
manuscript or cursive.
Back
to School clipart
Also can be used as coloring pages
Back
to School bulletin boards
Back
to School / Fall
A list of more than 20 bulletin board ideas
ABC
bulletin board border
Print as much border as you need, then laminate for longer
use
Math
Back to School
bulletin board
Apple
Bulletin board
Use all year to assign and rotate classroom duties
Bulletin
Board Ideas
- an extremely long list of ideas for the beginning of the year
View
a lot more bulletin board ideas here
Shopping
Buy The
First Days of School by Harry Wong at Amazon (new - $20.97
or used - starting at $10.95). Read a little about the book here.
Buy great classroom materials at Really
Good Stuff. Check out their Back
to School items.
Buy supplies at For
Teachers Only. They have a large selection of items,
such as pencils, lesson plan books, grade books, and more.
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