School's First Day of School activities and lesson plan ideas

Our School's First Day of School Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Adam Rex's book. Read aloud the Back to School picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: ◼️ READING STRATEGIES ☐ making inferences ☐ making predictions ☐ analyzing character ☐ analyzing setting ☐ analyzing illustrations ☐ making connections ☐ ask and answer questions   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ feelings   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ nouns ☐ verb tense ☐ commas ☐ quotation marks   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Over the summer a brand new school was built, it was named Frederick Douglass Elementary. While the janitor cleaned, School was happy it was just the two of them. However, the janitor explained that soon the teachers and students would come for the first day and School did not know how to feel about