First Day: New-to-NIS Students only
7:30 – 8:00 Students and parents in the PAC and take to homeroom
8:15 – 10:15 Students in classrooms
- Meet same grade level students and teachers
- Ice breakers
- Tours
- Playground
- And more!
10:15 – 10:30 Students picked up by parents from homeroom
Notes:
Keep last year’s rules/class agreements up until your new class creates their own agreements in week 3 or 4.
Resource book: Page references are from The First Six Weeks of School (TFSWS), 2nd edition
Day 1
TFSWS pg 38-49
(No Specials – Period 1, 2, and 3)
No swimming today
- 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 (Pg 43 -45)
- Go early to the cafeteria 41 (Pg19)
- 12:50 Lunch/Break
- Quiet time (Pg 42)
- Take class picture and send home a first day digital newsletter (include specialist teacher times)
- Teach dismissal procedure
- Closing circle
Day 2
No swimming today
(all other Specials start today)
- 7:45 – Teachers greet and interact with students
- New students continue with their language buddy
- Stop signals reviewed (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
- Lunch/Break
- Quiet time
- Model/practice dismissal procedure
- Closing circle
NIS week 1 and 2
TFSWS Week 1, pg 87-102
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 143-158
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 197-212
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 239-247
SeeGoals for Wees 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