A fun reading lesson that incorporates getting to know the school, outdoor learning and drawing with chalk. Ease your students butterflies with quality texts they can connect to, such as Butterflies on the First Day of School by Annie Silvestro.

4 Lessons

Grade: K-K

Starting School

This mini-unit will help your students connect with each other as they begin the new school year. The unit encourages students to draw parallels between the feelings expressed in a text and their own lives, whilst aiming to build bonds between peers. These lessons can be completed as a stand-alone lesson and with another text of choice.

A fun reading lesson that incorporates getting to know the school, outdoor learning and drawing with chalk. Ease your students butterflies with quality texts they can connect to, such as Butterflies on the First Day of School by Annie Silvestro.

4 Lessons

Grade: K-K

Starting School

This mini-unit will help your students connect with each other as they begin the new school year. The unit encourages students to draw parallels between the feelings expressed in a text and their own lives, whilst aiming to build bonds between peers. These lessons can be completed as a stand-alone lesson and with another text of choice.

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Essential Question/s

How can I create new friends in my class?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and Creative thinking

Lessons

4 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun reading lesson that incorporates getting to know the school, outdoor learning and drawing with chalk. Ease your students butterflies with quality texts they can connect to, such as Butterflies on the First Day of School by Annie Silvestro.

Lesson
Reading

Starting School - Butterflies

Make links between the events and/or characters in a text and my own experiences.

Lesson 2

This fun reading lesson combines movement skills with a response to text activity in a fun way that lets you and your students get to know each other. Students also get to develop a love of reading using quality texts such as A Letter from Your Teacher: On the First Day of School by Shannon Olsen.

Lesson
Reading

Starting School - My Teacher And Me

Share details about themselves with their teacher and peers through listening, speaking and writing.

Lesson 3

A touching reading lesson where students engage with quality texts such as Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen to connect with their peers, their teacher and the text.

Lesson
Reading

Starting School - My Class

Share details about themselves with their teacher and peers through listening, speaking and writing.

Lesson 4

A wonderful get-to-know-you lesson where students learn about their class peers by connecting with quality texts such as Old Friends New Friends by Andrew Daddo.

Lesson
Reading

Starting School - New Friends

Share details about themselves with their teacher and peers through listening, speaking and writing.

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