When students come through my doors on the first day of school, I want to be sure to give them a meaningful activity to do. This year, my idea came from here. After students put backpacks away, sharpened pencils, and did all the other things they needed to do to prepare for the day, they used the PostIt notes I had placed on their desks to answer the 6 questions from the pictures below. Later in the day, we discussed the questions, combined similar answers and a student scribe wrote the answers in a list on posters. I liked the answers and thought I would share them with you.
Poster #1 - What will you need to do to be successful this year?
Be good
Wear uniforms
Study
Work hard
Listen
Trust God
Poster #2 - What will Mrs. Morford need to do to help you this year?
(A third grader wrote this one, and was rather uncertain about spelling.)
Teach us
Answer questions
Set rules for us
Poster # 3 – Our classroom should be _______________ everyday.
Quiet
Neat
Clean
Good
Fun
Happy
Obedient
Poster #4 – School is important because ______________.
(Every student answered this one with a variation of “we learn” so we discussed some more and put down a few more specifics)
We learn about:
reading
behavior
God
math
Poster #5 – What do you hope to learn this year in 3rd or 4th grade?
Math
Art
Multiplication
Division
Spelling
Reading
Science
Poster #6 – What should kids in our class do to make our classroom run smoothly?
Obey
Listen
Be kind
Keep desks clean
Write neatly
