With the new school year on the horizon in a few months, anxiety is sure to be running high for soon to be students. Teachers are busy with the end of the school year and will be planning every detail of the first few months of the new year that lies ahead. Parents and young…
First Day of School Getting to Know You Activities
Those first day of school jitters can sneak up on even the most mature middle school students, let alone new kindergarteners! How you introduce the class to one another in those first moments on that first day of school can play a huge role in the type of community that evolves in your classroom. If…
The First Day Back to School
by Elizabeth Supan, Guest Columnist Just the phrase itself sends shivers. Doesn’t it? I still get so nervous and excited on the night before the first day back that I have a hard time sleeping. I think the reason I am a bundle of nerves is because I want to make sure that I cover…