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**First Day Stuff**

Letter to Parents and Students:

Dear Parents and Students,

I would like to welcome you to kindergarten. My name is Ms. Lauren Thomas I am from Fannin County Georgia and am a graduate of North Georgia College and State University. I can not wait to meet everyone at open house if you are able to attend or for the first day of school. We are going to have a great year, and I have many fun and exciting activities to go along with the students lessons this year. This year the students will be learning how to read, working on additions and subtraction, and working on science experiments in class are a few of the exciting things that we will be learning and doing this year. Also we are going to do many art projects to go along with what we are learning to decorate our room with, especially around the holidays. We will be going on field trips throughout the year that will tie into what we are learning in class. I am hoping that come fall we will be able to go to an apple orchard when we start talking about Johnny Appleseed. I look forward to getting to know you and having you in my class.

Sincerely,

Ms. Thomas

First Day Speech: Welcome to kindergarten everyone my name is Ms. Thomas. We are going to do many fun things this year. We will hopefully be able to go to an apple orchard when we start learning about Johnny Appleseed. We are going to do many art projects to decorate our room. Today we are also going to make a birthday bulletin board. We will also go on a tour of the school and you will get to meet some of the other teachers and people that work in our school. Also, we will play a game that will help us to get to know one another. I also have some coloring pages for us to work on that we will either hang up in the hall or hang up on our art wall. We will also come up with our own class rules and you all will get to help pick and decide them.

First Day Schedule:

7:30 am Students will come in and put away their materials and find their seats. After all of the students have arrived we will go to breakfast as a class.

8:00 am We will come up with our class rules and go over the centers in the class room, where they will turn in their work, where they hang up their backpacks and coats, and their schedule.

8:45 am We will go on a tour of the school. The tour will include going to the gym, library, music room, art room, office, and the nurse’s station.

9:15 am We will return to our class room. Then we will play a game to help us get to know one another. We will sit in a circle and I will have a ball and the person that has the ball has to tell the class their name and something about them. Once they have said something about them selves they are to gently toss the ball to someone else in the room. We will play this game until everyone including me has told three things about themselves.

10:30 am Now as a class we will make a birthday bulletin board. The students will be given a coloring book page of a cake that they are to color. Once they have finished coloring I will come around and write their birthday on their cake. Once all of the cakes are ready I will put them up on the board.

11:00 am Now we will go to lunch and practice walking in a straight and quiet line. The students will each have a turn at being line leader and the students will follow the leaders in a nice straight line like little ducklings following the momma duck.

11:30 am Next we will go out to recess.

12:00 pm We will come in and the students will have a seat and will cycle around the room getting a drink of water. Then the students will be given time to play quietly.

1:30 pm Students will be given a coloring sheet to color while they wait for their name to be called to pack up.

2:00 pm Once all students are packed up they may continue coloring their page or they can talk quietly with new friends at their table.

Coloring Pages: For the Boys For the Girls