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Mind Jar - Juggling With Kids
Mind Jar -- meditation tool for all ages: "when stressed, overwhelmed, or upset, imagine the glitter as your thoughts/emotions. when you shake the jar, imagine your head full of whirling thoughts/emotions. then watch as they slowly settle together, and you calm down."
Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | Teachers Pay Teachers
This is a wildly popular first day of school activity. It has been downloaded over 800 times on Edmodo. It was so popular at my middle school last year that teachers did this activity with their students on the second day of school because of the number of student requests.
Pitner's Potpourri
Number of the Day poster...use math journals...better than copying everyday! Hmmm this works, but what about the number 3? My first graders would be freaked trying to subtract 100..?
Measurement
Oooohhh.... Like this a lot!!! Do this if you finish math early...put inside math notebook
First Day of School Activities for Big Kids - Teaching with a Mountain View
First Day of School Activities for Big Kids
Free Back to School Ice Breaker!
Free Back to School Ice Breaker! This one is for grades 4-6
This website has a helpful list of must-have procedures to go over with students on the first few days of school. The list is thorough and it's important to teach these procedures for an efficient classroom.
Lifelong learning
Interesting way to reinforce place value. Students get a digit, comma or decimal, teacher says a number, students have to get themselves in order to represent that number. Kiddos will REALLY enjoy this- first week of school activity for place value