What Happened on Pa Lia's First Day?

Emerging readers complete pre-reading, writing, and post-reading activities for the book Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street. Potentially difficult vocabulary words are highlighted, and example discussion questions are provided. 

Students practice using their knowledge of chunks to figure out an unfamiliar word.  In this phonics and reading strategies lesson, students read the story The First day of Winter and use chunk to help them read the new words.  Students...

Primary learners complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book First Day of School. They will  complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and much more.

Help break the ice with new students by participating in a lesson that covers the nervousness they experience on the first day of school. The class enters into a discussion that follows reading The Teacher From The Black Lagoon. They...

What's it like to be mayor for a day? Elementary historians use their imaginations to describe what they would do as mayor and why. Academics create a list of ideas, share in small groups, and create a master list of suggestions with the...

Is Inauguration Day always on January 20th? Do incoming presidents always take the oath of office on a Bible? Learn the answers to these questions and more with an informative and entertaining video about Inauguration Day.

On the first day of school, get to know your class members, and encourage friendship with a poetry lesson that uses adjectives. Scholars brainstorm personality traits, draft an "I Am" poem composed of words that describe them, then share...

Classmates participate in a variety of getting-to-know-you activities for the first day of school. They make resolutions, become detectives about their fellow classmates, learn about each other by playing switch, and make welcome bags.

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,...

Pupils participate in a first day icebreaker activity. In this icebreaker instructional activity, students are paired up and film their partner doing something unique. Pupils continue to film eachother while conducting a short interview.