Activities for the First Day of School (Beginning of the school year)

What to do on the first day of class? What kind of Activities for the First Day of School can we use it in the initial series?

We know that the academy trains us, but professionalization we only acquire with practice, who never asked. “What will I do with the students on the first day of class?” It is a common question and whoever enters the teaching profession will end up going through it.

With this in mind, and also in ways to make it easier for you, we selected several suggestions for Back to School Activities, check out:

Activities for the First Day of School (Beginning of the School Year)

Knowledge Activity:

• Write your full name on the board:
• Write the sentence that the teacher dictates to you:
• Write the word that the teacher dictates:
• Write the syllable that the teacher dictates:
• Write the letter that the teacher dictates:
• Write the name of the animals:

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Back to School Activity for early grades – MAGIC BOTTLE

This is a wonderful activity to work with students aged 8 years and over. Aiming to develop the imagination.

To develop the game we will only need a bottle. The activity can be done in the classroom, and/or school yard.

Formation: circle (Students in circle, teacher in center)

Step by step activity:

• The teacher spins the bottle on the ground and when it stops it will point towards a student. The student must go to the center and perform a task determined by the class or teacher.

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Activities for the First Day of School

Suggestions of Activities for the first days of classes:

• Tourism through the school;
• Conversation Wheel;
• Writing (What I did on vacation);
• Drawings to color;
• Paintings with gouache paints;
• Making of Souvenirs and Murals;
• Various games;
• Dynamics;
• among others….

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3 fun dynamics

1 – BLIND CAT AND CAT

AGE: 7 years old
Specific Objectives: Hearing, Attention
MATERIAL: Scarves
LOCATION: Room, court, patio
Formation: circles
Organization: students in circles going two to the center; one will be the dog and the other the cat. seal both eyes
Execution: every time the dog barks, the cat will meow and the dog will try to catch it. If you succeed, others will go to the center.

2 – WHAT IS THE PERFUME?

AGE: 9 years onwards
SEX: Both
Specific objectives: Develop the sense of smell
MATERIAL: Fruits, perfumes, lotions, etc.
Formation: circles
Organization: students in circles, one going to the center blindfolded
Execution: the teacher will give the students at the center something to smell the perfume and will say: – you will have to recognize this aroma among others that I am going to give you. Then it will give you other things (fruit, bleach, etc.). This should identify when they give you to smell something that has the same smell as the first.

3 – TOUCHING THE BLIND

AGE: All
Specific objectives: Development-perspective
LOCATION: Open air, lounge
Formation: circle
Organization: students sitting in a circle. In the center, a blindfolded colleague
Execution: A fellow member of the circle will stand up, touch the little blind man and sit down again. From the movements made, the blind man will try to guess who touched him.

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who is my teacher

Goals:

Introduce yourself to the students and get to know them too, leading them to interact with the group.

Material:

Paper and pen

Procedure:

• Organize an interview so students can get to know you better.
• Divide them into groups and ask them to ask questions as if they were reporters.
• Explain that the questions might be about your age, whether you have children, how long you have been in the profession, or where you live, for example.
• With the questions ready, sit in a place in the room where everyone can see you well.
• Each group will ask their questions and you will be asked to answer them.
• Inform everyone that they should bring, the next day, a brief text about everything they remember. So they pay attention.
• In the next class, randomly select a few children to read the written production and ask the others to evaluate and complement if necessary.

Note: This dynamic is for when students know each other and only the teacher is a novice.

As the teacher does not know the students, he can also interview them.

Duration: 20 to 30 minutes

Age group: From 8 years

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BADGES and/or FORM WITH FIRST NAME

1. The teacher shows the badge, reads the name and hands it to the student.
2. The badges are placed on the floor in the middle of the circle, allowing each student to recognize theirs by taking it from the group of others.
3. The teacher turns the badge face down on the floor and plays with the memory game students.
4. Individual call, where the teacher presents the badge and each student recognizes theirs.
5. The teacher presents the form with each student's first name to make the call.
6. The chips are on the pleated poster. The teacher says the student's name and he looks for his record on the poster.
7. The teacher gives the student the form of his/her name and the corresponding movable letters. The child in view of the model forms its name.

First Day Activities to print

Letter salad: Find the words and write them on the boards:

Write the alphabet according to the first letter of each drawing.

Cutout dictation:

Vowels together form little words!

Emphasize agglutination through stories or phrases.

How should a good routine in early childhood education be?

• Arrival and welcome;
• Initiation and training wheel;
• Lunch;
• Playground;
• Bathroom/hygiene;
• Free play;
• Organized Activities;
• Farewell.

Ready-made Routine Model for Early Childhood Education:

Back to School Text Production

Are your colleagues and I curious to know how your vacation went? Did you play, jump, sing, dance, or go head over heels doing nothing? Then? Will you tell us?

What do I want to do at school?

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