• Meet same grade level students and teachers
• Icebreakers
• Tours
• Playground
• And more!

10:15 – 10:30 Students picked up by parents from homeroom

Note:
Keep last year’s rules/class agreements up for two or three weeks until your new class creates their own agreements.

Page references are from The First Six Weeks of School (TFSWS)

Day 1- First Day for all students
TFSWS pg 14-25
(No pull out Specials – Period 1, 2, and 3)
No swimming

• 7:45 – Teachers greet and interact with students
  Students make locker name tags (multiple languages – value home language)
• New students get a language buddy
• Stop signals taught (e.g. Chimes, claps, hand in the air) – Stop, get quiet, and look
• Morning meetings – 4 Components (greeting, sharing, activity, morning message)
• Interactive modelling – Lining up, hallway walking, bathroom procedures
• Between 9:00-9:45 – Healthy snack in class
• Energisers
• (Optional – Teach playground games before break)
• Tour the playground  – talk about playground essential agreements and interactively model
• BREAK – Interactive model exit and entry (Ensure buddies stay together)
• Math, Reading, Writing see Language Arts and Maths tabs for ideas (TFSWS Pg 20 -23)
• Go early to the cafeteria – especially grade 1 (Pg19)
• 12:50 Lunch/Break
• Quiet time (Pg 19)
• Take class picture and send home a first-day newsletter (include specialist teacher times)
• Teach dismissal procedure
• Closing circle

Day 2
No swimming
(all other Specials start period 1 today)

• 7:45 – Teachers greet and interact with students
• New students continue with their language buddy
• Stop signals taught (e.g. Chimes, claps, hand in the air) – Stop, get quiet, and look
• Morning meetings – 4 Components (greeting, sharing, activity, morning message)
• Review Interactive modelling – Lining up, hallway walking, bathroom procedures
• Between 9:00-9:45 – Healthy snack in class
• Energisers
• (Optional – Teach playground games before break)
• Review playground essential agreements and interactively model
• BREAK – Interactive model exit and entry (Ensure buddies stay together)
• Math, Reading, Writing see Language Arts and Maths tabs for ideas (Pg 20 -23)
• Go early to the cafeteria – especially grade 1 (Pg19)
• 12:50 Lunch/Break
• Quiet time (Pg 19)
• Model/practice dismissal procedure
• Closing circle

NIS week 1 and 2
TFSWS Week 1, pg 55-68

See Goals for Week One (Pg 52)

• Language arts – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Language Arts
• Maths – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Maths
• Read the grade level specific sections about activities to engage in to achieve the goals of the week

NIS Week 3 (TFSWS Week 2)
TFSWS Week 2, pg 109-123

See Goals for Week Two (Pg 106)

• Language arts – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Language Arts
• Maths – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Maths
• Read the grade level specific sections about activities to engage in to achieve the goals of the week

NIS Week 4 (TFSWS Week 3)
TFSWS Week 3, pg 165-179

See Goals for Week Three (Pg 162)

• Language arts – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Language Arts
• Maths – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Maths
• Read the grade level specific sections about activities to engage in to achieve the goals of the week

NIS Week 5 – 7 (TFSWS Weeks 4 – 6)
TFSWS Weeks 4-6, pg 219-227

SeeGoals for Weeks Four to Six  Pg 216

• Language arts – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Language Arts
• Maths – see First Six Weeks Language Arts Tab under Maths
• Read the grade level specific sections about activities to engage in to achieve the goals of the week