First Week Of School Activities 1st Grade Lesson Plans| First Day Jitters

Ditch the overwhelm and feel confident in your first week of school! This resource has everything you need for calming those first day jitters and helping students with friendship skills, school bus safety, and more!

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The first week of school can be stressful. Your students are trying to get used to their new classroom. The office is asking you for paperwork. Parents want to know how their child is doing. And your principal is already planning PD and wants your lesson plans. Gah! It's no wonder teachers are feeling stressed.

If that sounds like you, this resource has everything you need for a successful, stress-free week of fun and learning. These tried and true activities include detailed lesson plans and hands-on activities that will keep even your busiest kids on task. They'll love the engaging read-aloud suggestions, station activities, writing prompts, and simple crafts.

It's the perfect way to have a soft start to your school year! Here's what's included:

First Day Jitters Activities

• Lesson Plans
• Jitter Juice Craft
• Writing Activity - Let’s Make Jitter Juice
• Writing Activity - How Did You Feel Today? (2 versions)
• Poem - First Day Of School Jitters (2 versions)
• Large emotions posters
• Small emotion cards for class graph
• Black and white emotion strips for class graph
• Jitter Juice Label
• Jitter Juice Recipe

Friendship Activities

• Lesson Plans
• Story Map for the book Stick and Stone
• What Makes A Good Friend? - writing activity
• Flip Book Activity for the book Stick and Stone
• Stick and Stone cards
• Lesson Plans and Activities for 4 Friendship Stations including:

- Friendship Bracelets

- Find A Friend Activity (2 versions for readers and non-readers)

- Friendship Rocks! - memory game

- Lesson Plan for making Friendship Rocks

• Friendship Soup Recipe with cards.
• Who Is Being A Friend? - cut & past assessment
• Friends Make Good Choices - cut & paste mini-book assessment

School Bus Safety

• Lesson plans
• Bus Safety pocket chart sorting activity
• Bus Rules anchor chart
• 5 Differentiated Writing templates
• Graphic organizer
• School Bus Safety mini book
• School Bus Safety big book
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Worksheets
• School Bus Craft
• I Am A Safe Rider certificate

What Can You Do In Your New School Shoes?

• Anchor Chart - What Can You Do In Your New School Shoes? (color and B&W)
• Writing Template
• Shoe Craft
• Bulletin Board Letters

BONUS RESOURCE INCLUDED:

Teacher For The Day

• Letter Home - send this letter home with your students as an explanation of Teacher For The Day. (2 versions included)
• Student Lesson Plan - students will complete a simple, kid-friendly, lesson plan explaining what they will be teaching, thematerials needed and the steps they will take to teach their lesson. (2 versions included)
• Teacher For The Day Reflection Books - after each student lesson, the class can complete a page in their mini-books. Students will write and illustrate about each lesson. Includes half-page mini books and full-page books.
• Teacher For The Day Log - a handy log is included to help you keep track of which students will be teaching each day.
• Rubric - use this simple rubric to evaluate students work
• Digital Teacher For The Day - includes a digital version of the student lesson plan and the reflection books for students to complete online.

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Here's what other teachers had to say about these resources:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "One of my favorite resources for the first week back to school with getting to know the students and preparing them for classroom routines."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students loved using this resource during our first few weeks of school this year. Great way to use those routine "back to school" books and expand and make them more fun!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "These activities were great and my students enjoyed completing them. Enjoyed the visuals and crafts. Really great resource. Thank you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I always struggle with what to do my first week of school! This was extremely helpful with planning!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Possibly my favorite resource purchased!"

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