★★★★★ Have your best beginning of a school year ever! Help students begin a year with confidence with this SUPER back to school unit.
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-This resource includes an impacting “8-Day High School Begin a Term Unit” AND a “5-Day Level 1 Middle School Unit,” and a “4-Day Level 2 Middle School Unit,” and a “4-Day Level 3 Middle School Unit.“
-Or, use all 21 engaging lessons in anyway you choose!
-Lessons are editable in Word and PowerPoint!
★NEW!★ Now includes all student worksheets, surveys, and handouts on GOOGLE SLIDES and FORMS! Teach students in class or online, and use either printed docs or docs online on Google Drive!
★ALL FUTURE UPDATES FOR LIFE ARE INCLUDED!! All new lessons, activities, and any changes that I create for this unit are FREE!! Simply go to your “My Purchases” folder and download anytime!
–Here is what is included in the BEFORE SCHOOL ORGANIZATION SECTION:
-Setting a safe and comfortable classroom environment. How to have an inviting, comfortable, homey atmosphere in your room
-A class syllabus template to personalize to your curriculum
-3 different Learning Target “Success Criteria” exit sheets
-Easy and Effective Discipline System-This really works!
-Emergency Sub Plans
-Morning PowerPoints and “Fun Facts in the Mornings” Idea: How to use daily PowerPoints to direct students and to present your lessons (I’ve included 30 Morning PowerPoint Templates and different real examples)
-Current Events Idea
-THINK/PAIR/SHARE PowerPoints
-Ziplock bags for art Projects
-No more “I didn’t know we had homework!” Use my awesome system to post what you’re doing in class on your board.
-Class “Be Above the Influence” theme and “Learning Targets” (see Learning Target Folder)
-“How to Ace Your Teacher Evaluation”
-“Empowering Student Engagement”
-Full standards list
-A daily file folder system that makes your life so much easier
-How to get amazing art projects from your students: Marker bag idea and an “Art Rubric” to help raise the level of student project
–Here is what is included in the BEGINNING A TERM HIGH SCHOOL LESSONS:
★82 PAGES OF FULL STEP-BY-STEP TEACHER DIRECTIONS tell you what to say and they follow PowerPoint slides that walk you through each of these lessons as you teach your students!
★132 PowerPoint Slides!
★Choose as many activities as you want to do! These separate lessons are “stand-alones” and can be taught anytime in any order!
DAY 1 – 4 LESSONS:
-Try this “First Day of School” lesson that has worked great for me for years!
-Introduce yourself to your students with a quiz about you! (template included)
-“Learning Styles Survey”
-Conversation Starters Activity and Worksheet
-“How to Break the Ice” video
-“Learning Styles Explanation Handout”
-“Learning Style Cubes” art project
-Amazing YouTube videos that kids love!
-My students left my class saying, “This is going to be the best class ever!”
DAY 5 LESSONS:
-Reinforce an “I will” attitude in your students.
-“Little Red Hen “I Will” Class Theme (I had a buyer email me that she did the activity with her students last year and got a round of applause when she finished the story!)
-Or, use the “Famous Failures” Version of the “I Will” attitude for high school classes!
-Use the theme “Stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.'”
-Classroom File Folders System
-Students Decorate File Folders
-Introduce “Learning Target” posters and “Success Criteria Student Worksheets”
-Fun, inspiring videos!
DAY 6 LESSONS:
-Communication Skills Fun!
DAY 7 LESSONS:
-Getting to know your classmates “Ice-Breaker”
DAY 8 LESSONS:
-Mahatma Gandhi Poster
-Includes “Artwork Rubric” and “Art Competition for Extra Credit System!”
OPTIONAL DAY 9 LESSONS:
-Creating Student-Generated Classroom Rules: -“Sticky Note Rules” – Students help write classroom rules (template provided)
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–HERE ARE THE BEGINNING A TERM MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL 1 LESSONS:
The 3 grade levels of Middle/Jr. High School lessons are sequential within the middle level and do not repeat activities, but be aware there is overlap between a few of the middle and high school level activities!
DAY 1:
-Introductions and “Learning Styles Survey”
DAY 2:
-Conversation Starters
DAY 3:
-Learning Styles Cube Art
DAY 4:
-“Little Red Hen” ‘I Will’ class theme
-File Folders System and Decorate folders
DAY 5:
-Fun “Food Personality Survey”
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–HERE ARE THE BEGINNING A TERM MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL 2 LESSONS:
DAY 1 + 2:
-Class theme
-“Famous Failures” activity
-File folders
-“Anonymous Teen Survey”
DAY 3:
-“I Am Me” Poems
“What’s Your Animal Personality Survey”
-“I Am Me Poems”
DAY 4:
-Tips to boost confidence
-Shy girl on “X Factor”
-“Door Hanger Project”
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–HERE ARE THEBEGINNING A TERM MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL 3 LESSONS:
THIS UNIT AND ALL ITS MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED IN MY FULL SEMESTER PROGRAMS: “THE HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH CURRICULUM” and “THE MIDDLE/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH CURRICULUM.”
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