Prepare with confidence and cover your bases with this first week of kindergarten survival guide. This article, along with many other articles on The Printable Princess, contains Amazon affiliate links. If you purchase through the links I earn a small commission.
We only share links to resources and products we love. Teachers have a lot on their plates when planning and prepping for back to school time. Be sure to get your rest, do self care when you can, and give yourself grace. Save yourself some stress and feel more prepared to head back to school by getting prepared at home. Deep clean your house and wash your car before school starts. When planning lessons for the first week of kindergarten, be sure to focus more on building relationships and classroom community and making your students feel welcome than on curriculum and skill practice.
However, this first week is all about getting to know your students. Take the time to get to know each other, teach routines and procedures, and make your students feel safe and welcome at school. The goal for each day of the first week of school is to make your students love school and be excited to come back the next day.
You can check out a sample first week of school schedule in this Realistic Expectations for the First Week of Kindergarten blog post. A pacing guide will help you see the progression of skills taught throughout the year and the seasonal units and themes you can incorporate. This will make lesson planning even easier. As you sit down to plan your lessons for the first week of kindergarten, remember to keep it simple.
These ideas will make school fun for your students and will get everyone in the groove while slowly incorporating beginning of the year skills. One of the best ways to connect with your students and make them feel welcome at school is with back to school read alouds. A few of my favorite back to school read alouds for kindergarten are:. Having a variety of hands-on activities for students to work with is an essential element of your first week of kindergarten survival guide.
These activities will teach students how to use different supplies and manipulatives in the classroom while being exposed to basic kindergarten skills. The math checks out and everything. One of the many benefits of spending this much time Peter Pan-ing my way through life is that I get to see a lot of my former students grow into adulthood, family life and parenthood. Seeing the updates of graduations, jobs, weddings and children is one of the best things this job offers as a continually renewing benefit.
Two of my former students, who have been immensely helpful to my book-writing and blog-pimping careers, got married a number of years ago, became parents and raised one heck of an amazing kid. As he completed his pre-school career, his mom asked if anyone on Facebook had any advice for him regarding kindergarten. Feel free to wander away and read or play with cars or something. You are under no obligation to feed into her delusions of grandeur. Save your tattling for when it counts. To ask other readers questions about The Kindergarten Survival Handbook , please sign up.
Be the first to ask a question about The Kindergarten Survival Handbook. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 2. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 09, Necia rated it it was ok Recommends it for: parents of toddlers and young children. Shelves: childrens. The book would be helpful for a parent who had absolutely no idea what goes on in a kindergarten classroom.
The second half of the book is suggestions on helping the child to learn the skills they may need to be working on from the checklist. I would actually recommend this book to someone whose child is two o The book would be helpful for a parent who had absolutely no idea what goes on in a kindergarten classroom.
I would actually recommend this book to someone whose child is two or three rather than one who is starting kindergarten. It would give them a good baseline for things that they could do over the following couple of years to help their children be ready to learn. Mar 27, Elizabeth rated it it was ok Shelves: adult-nonfiction.
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