First Week of School Ideas

First week ideas for the classroom 

Books to Read:

1. Best Part of Me 

I have done a similar activity with grades 5 and 6 students and they created poems to go with their picture. I think this time I will give sentence starters for students to choose from. I will be able to get diagnostic data on writing and spelling abilities and it will look great on the bulletin board for when the parents come to meet the teacher!




2. Stand Tall Mary Lou Melon

I like the idea of using this book to develop characteristics as well as for students to talk about what is special about them.




3. Jermiah Learns to Read

4. The Girl who Hated Books

I would like to read these books before I introduce the home reading program






You Tube Video to describe multiple intelligences

http://youtu.be/kBbmerzR2JI


Great Blog Post on Multiple Intelligences - Love this quote
- It would be interesting for students to fill out the strengths and weakness sheet to see what they think but I feel some students might find this challenging.
- I would like to read the book Brilliant Brain Becomes Brainy by
Ellen Arnold it is supposed to be a great book for multiple intelligences I might use the you tube video instead
http://motivatingmindsstocking.blogspot.ca/2012/05/multiple-intelligences.html



Books for recognizing differences

1. Its Ok to be Different by Todd Parr
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