Today’s schedule will be centered around Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities. As you all know, this is a great book to use during the first week of school. Not just because the kids love it, but also for the letter activities, and assessment possibilities!
Daily Schedule – Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities
- 8 am – Arrival and Morning Work – Stand at the door to greet and review morning procedures. Students work on their fine motor skills again with a tracing page.
- 8:30 am – Calendar and Class Rules – We practice our calendar routines and discuss rule #3, and color the corresponding coloring page.
- 9:00 am – Teach Routines – Working from my procedures list, I teach them all about classroom jobs and how the rotation works. We practice some of the jobs as well. We also go over our routines for early finisher work.
- 9:30 am – Assessment – Letter sound picture match.
Kindergarten Early Finishers Task Cards
Routines and Assessment
- 9:55 am – Routines – sweater and jacket organization as well as water bottles.
- 10 am – Recess
- 10:15 am – Routines – Book care and when they can access the classroom library. Check out my post on how to set up classroom library expectations.
- 10:25 am – Language Arts – Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and complete the upper/lowercase letter match activity.
- 10:50 am – Routines – Choose from the list which one makes the most sense for your classroom.
- 11:00 am – Math – Number order.
- 11:20 am – Art – Chicka Chicka Boom Boom name tree activity. You can either use stamps or foam letters. Foam letters provide another great fine motor activity when they have to peel the paper off the back of the letters.
- 11:40 am – Routines – Review behavior system.
- 11:50 am – Clean-up/Pack-up
- 12:00 pm – Dismissal
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Check out my other first-week resources and grab tons of freebies to make your first week a breeze!
- Monday – The Kissing Hand
- Tuesday – Lacey Walker Non-Stop Talker
- Wednesday – Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
- Thursday – Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?
- Friday – The Rainbow Fish
