On the First Day of Christmas, My Teacher Gave to Me...

Get to know the members of your class and set expectations for the year with a first-day lesson plan. With icebreaker questions and a schedule of goal-setting activities, the lesson plan is sure to get the year started on the right track.

Begin the school year with enthusiasm using the book entitled My Teacher Can Teach Anyone! For this reading for meaning lesson, primary readers listen to the story and discuss what is happening and why the boy in the story might be...

Spell out your first day excitement with S-C-H-O-O-L! Use a worksheet to fill in words for each letter to create a unique acrostics poem.

After reading the first few chapters of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, present your class with this pattern guide. They record Scout's initial attitudes towards topics like prejudice, justice and bravery, as well as towards other...

Send scholars on a webquest on St. Patrick's Day! Computer enthusiasts search the web to answer a series of questions, write a mini biography about St. Patrick, discover and write a summary about the holiday's symbols and traditions, and...

Put on your hats and mittens, button your coat and lace your boots, its time for a trip on The Polar Express. Designed with both primary and upper-grade learners in mind, this resource provides lessons and activities that use this...

Foster community in your classroom and encourage learners to get up and get to know each other. Individuals each receive the classmate inventory handout included and use it to fill in information about their fellow scholars. Once they...

Students participate in a instructional activity that is concerned about conducting activities that should be done on the first day of school. The goal of the instructional activity is for the teacher and students to become acquainted in...

Travel out to sea as scholars learn vocabulary in context through Kathleen Zoehfeld's informational book Dolphin's First Day. Go over the new words scholars will hear before reading: approach, coast, expert, feeble, gaze, murky, propel,...

Learners will create a book by adapting the "12 Days of Christmas" to their own lives. In this lesson plan students illustrate, create and write an accordion book using the traditional Christmas song "12 Days of Christmas" as a guide....