With First Grade starting just around the corner, I thought I would actually make a welcome brochure. This is something we had to do as a class project back in one of my college education classes and I always thought it was a fun and cute idea. I never got around to making one my first year of teaching with everything else you have to do in such a short amount of time and last year, it just slipped my mind!
This year, like last, my school decided to departmentalize even in first grade. I happen to LOVE it as I can focus solely on math and science. I felt as though my students became experts in math and science and that we had plenty of time to cover this material. We even had time to help out my partner teacher with supplemental writing activities and a lot of read alouds, typically relating to math and science, however. There are of course pros and cons to anything you do in education, but I'm hoping my school sticks with departmentalization for the near future. One of the downsides is that you have twice as many parents and students to know and make valuable connections. This is especially important in first grades (and all younger grades) as parents play such an important role in their children's education. I'm hoping that this brochure really starts us off on the right foot and that for those parents who cannot come to meet the teacher night, I will make note of and send one home on the first day of school to the rest of the students. Feel free to use this general template or outline if you want to use it for your own classroom!
There you go! A few other activities I plan on doing the first day or week of school include:
-Reading Chrysanthemum and graphing how long our names are
-Decorating their portfolio folders
-Tracing their outline on a large piece of butcher paper and making an all about me poster for homework (presentations in class over the next couple weeks during breakfast)
-Reading Berenstain Bears to reinforce behavior expectations and social skills
-Decorating their portfolio folders
-Tracing their outline on a large piece of butcher paper and making an all about me poster for homework (presentations in class over the next couple weeks during breakfast)
-Reading Berenstain Bears to reinforce behavior expectations and social skills
Happy First Week of School!
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