Fourteen Great Activities for the First Days of School!
Description	Last September, in response to an Education World story, teachers around the world sent in their favorite first-day-of-school activities. So here they are! Fourteen great activities to help you get to know your new students -- and to help them get to know you!
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Type	Activity
Grade Level	all

Pearls of Wisdom
Description	"Pearls of Wisdom" is for new teachers. Each thought is from a teacher's experiences on how to be successful in teaching. Put together, the information is very helpful, and always humorous.
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Type	Lesson plan
Grade Level	adult/continuing education, higher education, vocational education

Home Visitations
Description	I teach in a parochial school with 270 students from 3 year old preschool through 8th grade. My dilemma was how to make the last two junior high years special for many of these students who had come to the same building for a long time.
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Type	Lesson plan
Grade Level	7

Basic Aspects of Summer
Description	This lesson is planned as a beginning of the school year activity. It will help the students ease into school by letting them relate what they did in the summer to learning facts about summer weather, summer activities, and the sun.
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Type	Lesson plan
Grade Level	1, preschool education, kindergarten

First Day of School America
Description	One of the most reliable and most critical indicators of how well a child will do in school is the degree of parental involvement in that child's education. This program will help build family involvment in education and parent/teacher partnerships!
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Type	Environment
Grade Level	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, kindergarten

Mannequin
Description	This activity is good at the beginning of the school year. Students work in small groups, helping them get acquainted
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Type	Lesson plan
Grade Level	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Do-It-Yourself Planning Kit
Description	The First Day of School is the one day each year when it is simultaneously most important and easiest to enlist parents as partners in their children's education. This Planning Kit shows various ways other schools have taken advantage of First Day of School opportunities to make friends and allies of students parents. The goal is to get parents involved from Day One, each year, as partners in their children's education, and to give them hints and tips on simple things they can do at home to help their children do well in school.
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Grade Level	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, kindergarten

Fourteen MORE Activities for the First Days of School!
Description	Education World's readers responded to last year's back-to-school story with more than two dozen great ideas! So here, in a follow-up to Fourteen Great Ideas for the First Days of School, is the second batch of reader ideas -- fourteen MORE activities for the first days of school!
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Type	Activity
Grade Level	all

Classroom Heart
Description	This activity gives young children a visual description of how feelings can be damaged by remarks from others. Teachers are encouraged to use this lesson during the first week of school.
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Type	Lesson plan
Grade Level	1, 2, preschool education, kindergarten

Truth and Lies Game
Description	This is a fun, get-acquainted activity. Used in the beginning of the school year, during a class party, or at the end of the year
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Type	Lesson plan
Grade Level	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12