It doesn’t matter how many years I have been teaching, the back to school section, the feel of fall in the air, and the smell of new books always brings on the same anxious feeling I had as a child as school was about to begin.
Tina’s Try-Out Day pg.13 First Day Jitters pg. 14-33 Making New Friends pg. 34-35 Fluency Model - Punctuation pg. 33A Vocabulary - Words in Context pg. 37C-37D downstairs nervous fumbled chuckled nonsense trudged Small Group Differentiated Instruction Due to lack of data, differentiation is optional until September 5th. This Back to School: First Day Jitters Feelings Activity is perfect for the first day of school. Students start out with identifying their feelings (feelings cards included) then illustrate a self-portrait and/or use the Feelings chart to show how they are feeling as they embrace the first day of school.
If, as a veteran teacher, I am still getting these feelings, I KNOW that many children are just as anxious about their first day of school.
For this reason, I do what I can to help them out. I send them a small packet of glitter (what I refer to as Jitter Glitter) along with this poem:
I always read the book First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg as the perfect follow up to sending the Jitter Glitter.
First Day Jitters Julie Danneberg Pdf
It is the cutest book about being nervous for the first day and, although you think it is about a child’s first day of school, it ends up that it is actually the teacher who was so nervous. We always laugh and say that she needed to have some Jitter Glitter like us!
First Day Jitters Pdf Download Free
The glitter in my hair on the first day of school is an incredible ice breaker. They love to see that I put the jitter glitter in my hair, too, and that I really might have been a little nervous, too.
Swing on in to grab the entire packet that I send home over the summer to my new friends. Help ease those jitters…
– Originally posted on Teaching Blog Addict
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My name is Krissy and I am a K/1 teacher all the way up in Maine! I love blogging about ideas and creating materials that make the lives of teachers everywhere easier.