First Day Hooray!!

I absolutely LOVE the theme of this story.

Not just is the little girl a little nervous about the first day but so are the bus driver, custodian, secretary, principal and teacher.  It is perfect for introducing the school helpers on that first day of school or soon after.

Find it here.

There are vocabulary pieces for posting with pictures and word work ideal for your literacy center.

The activities are differentiated to meet student levels K to 2.

There are rewards for the first day for you to sign.

One is in color or you can choose black and white.

I also have labels for the special rooms in your school.

Ideal for a scavenger hunt.  Collect them all!

These activities are differentiated as well.

One is identifying nouns and the other has definitions of emotions and varied words from the story.

The data collection sheets are also leveled and there are two math games helping the children get to school with addition and greater/less than.

I like using these comprehension activities for small groups.

They work with character identification and story elements.

There is a graphic organizer for recording key ideas.  I also love the pre writes for children to gather their thoughts before writing.  Finally a poster telling about their first day.

Here are samples of the writing pages.

There is also a full page for writing not shown.