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Help students and parents stay organized while learning a home. Whether students are out of school for the current Covid 19 pandemic, or simply on break for summer, an unexpected illness or even if you homeschool, this editable learning at home schedule will help keep you on track!

You can edit to type your daily and weekly assignments. Both editable PDF and JPG files are included for your editing convenience.

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Add a brief overview of the goals you have each week. This is so helpful for parents so they know what to focus on each week. You can add additional notes as well. I send these out every Monday to start the week on the right foot. ♦ Editable weekly SCHEDULE Included is a Monday-Friday schedule. Each day there are four stars for you to type your tasks/assignments next to. When students complete their assignment, they can color their star. Parents love this easy to understand format! ♦♦♦ BONUS FREEBIES ♦♦♦
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FREE editable distance learning schedules and goals - kindergarten first grade

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Help students and parents stay organized while learning a home. Whether students are out of school for the current Covid 19 pandemic, or simply on break for summer, an unexpected illness or even if you homeschool, this editable learning at home schedule will help keep you on track!

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These Boom Cards are exactly what you need for distance/at home learning. These digital task cards feature distance learning themed sentence building activities for Covid-19. These sentence scramble activities are an engaging, interactive, and self-checking digital game!

Students will love unscrambling the words and making a sentence by dragging and dropping the words. There are cute pictures as helpful hints as the students practise sentence structure.

The theme to this deck is Covid-19 and Distance Learning. This a relatable and relevant topic to students right now. This deck has similar benefits to a social story and is a great talking point for students, parents, and teachers to discuss feelings around the current events.

If you like these sentence building activities, be sure to check out the others in my store. I have single decks and bundles for short vowel, long vowel, digraphs, and blends!

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Boom cards are self grading exercises on the Boom Learning website. Students are assessed on their knowledge in a fun and engaging way (Boom Cards are like a game). They are interactive and students click, drag, drop, or type in order to show the answer. These Boom Cards are an awesome way to assess your student's sentence structure knowledge. They can be fun and engaging Literacy Centers which you can use with your classroom technology, such as iPads, computers, and interactive whiteboards. Best of all? There is NO printing, cutting, or laminating!
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Distance Learning Sentence Building Boom Cards

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These Boom Cards are exactly what you need for distance/at home learning. These digital task cards feature distance learning themed sentence building activities for Covid-19. These sentence scramble activities are an engaging, interactive, and self-checking digital game! Students will love unscrambl...

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If you're looking for help with a virtual first day back to school, you've come to the right place. It's a pretty safe bet that most teachers will have to do some form of online teaching this year. Most states are creating their back-to-school plans with an emphasis on three different models for students and teachers: 1) full in-person, 2) full digital/distance learning, and 3) a hybrid model.

In a previous blog post, I laid out all my lesson plans for my in-person first day back to school. Since releasing that ,I've heard from many of you that you may start the year with distance learning or you will be required to create lesson plans for both in-person learning and for distance learning. The positive thing is, you won't have to jump into distance learning without any warning, plans, or resources this time.

Whether your first day back to school is in a classroom or in a Zoom meeting with students, I've got lesson plans you can use.

I understand some of you are anxious to embark on this new era of teaching. I get it. However, once you dive in and get familiar with all of the nuances of distance learning, I promise that you'll see how enjoyable the experience can be. In this post, I share a complete virtual lesson plan for your first day of distance learning so that you're ready for anything.

You can grab my free virtual first day of school lesson plan HERE.

Virtual First Day Lesson Plan

In this virtual first day back to school lesson plan, I break down the day with team building ideas, free science lessons, a character education read aloud, a writing prompt that emphasizes diversity and inclusion, a technology scavenger hunt to familiarize your students with the tools they will be using this year, and so much more.

Student Schedule

Before you begin your virtual first day back to school, make sure you share the schedule with students. Much like posting your schedule in your physical classroom, it is just as important for them to know what to expect on this virtual first day. I have two versions of these schedules ready to go for you in Google Slides. One version is filled out to follow this lesson plan. Another version is left blank for you to edit as you see fit.

The link to the complete schedule can be found HERE.

The link to the blank, editable schedule can be found HERE.

Zoom Meeting Invitation

In addition to sending students a detailed schedule for the day, you should also email students an invitation to the first Zoom meeting. I created editable invitations found HERE that you can use to invite students to the first Zoom meeting. Complete the invitation, save it as a PDF, and send it to students' or parents' email addresses. When you send out these invitations to students ahead of time, they will know exactly when they are to log in to the first Zoom meeting on the first day of school.

Team Building

Even if you're doing a virtual first day back to school, I suggest that you devote time to building a community with your students - just as you would in your physical classroom. I've developed some fun and creative ways you can do this during Zoom meetings.

I created a Digital Team Building Resource for you that will allow you to establish relationships with your students and still have fun on those first days.

With my virtual first day back to school lesson plans, you will begin the day with a Zoom introduction so students can get to know each other. Students will have the opportunity to go around and introduce themselves using alliteration. You can read more about the activity by checking out the lesson plan HERE.

Continue to build community and get to know your students by having them fill out this All About Me Hot Seat page shown below. In the lesson plan, you can see that there is an option to do this activity individually or collaboratively with a small group of students or your whole class. In addition, I offer ideas on how to use this activity with a Zoom Meeting so students can share about themselves to their classmates.

Break

Giving students breaks throughout the day is very important. Too much screen time can cause students to become overwhelmed and irritable. You will see this even more at the beginning of the year. Encourage students to spend their break grabbing a snack, going outside to do things like ride bikes, play with Legos, read a chapter book, etc.

Character Education Read Aloud and Writing Prompt

Now that students have had the opportunity to take a break and re-charge, bring them back for a read aloud.

It's so important to incorporate SEL or character education lessons into these first days. When you do this, you set the tone for a positive classroom community on those first days back to school.

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold is a great story to read aloud at the start of the year. You can choose to read this aloud to students via Zoom or you can choose to share the YouTube link of this story being read aloud online.

Here is the link to the book on Amazon:

If you do decide to read the story on Zoom, use that opportunity to have a quick discussion with students about diversity and inclusion.

Here is the link to the book being read on YouTube:

After students listen to the story, they can respond to the digital writing prompt. You can access the digital writing prompt on this blog post HERE.

Science

Now is a great opportunity to move students into some content to switch it up a bit. You don't want to start with anything too difficult on this virtual first day. Keep the content simple, light, and fun. For this activity, students will go to the Wonderopolis website. They will have the opportunity to watch a short video, read a quick passage, and answer some questions about whether or not animals can get sunburns. Again, students will get excited for digital learning when the content is clear, interactive, and fun.

Wonderopolis is a fantastic site with additional science, social studies, and math content. Feel free to explore this site to find a different activity that suits your learners.

Break / Recess

Again, encourage students to spend their breaks grabbing a snack, going outside to do things like ride bikes, play with Legos, read a chapter book, etc.

Lunch

Encourage students to use this time to eat a healthy lunch and rest. Students should make their own healthy lunch and clean up after themselves when they finish.

Digital Logic Puzzles

Now that students have had the opportunity to take a rest and lunch break, invite them back to learning with some fun digital logic puzzles. These games are back-to-school themed and ask your students to solve real-world, first-week teacher problems. You can click to see more.

Google Slides Scavenger Hunt

Another important tip is to allow your students the opportunity to practice with whatever digital tools you'll be using throughout the year. For that reason, I created a free Google Slides Scavenger Hunt. Click HERE to check it out.

With this scavenger hunt, students will have the opportunity to complete tasks, manipulate items, and submit assignments in Google Slides to familiarize themselves with the technology.

This activity is part of my Meet the Teacher Open House resource found HERE. I decided to make it free for you all to use on your first day of distance learning!

Team Building

End the day on a high note with some fun, collaborative team building. For this activity, students will work together (or individually) to complete a silly back-to-school newsletter.

Final Zoom Meeting

Use this opportunity to wrap up the day. Keep it simple and upbeat for students.

During this Zoom meeting:

Allow students to share their character education writing prompts from earlier

Allow some students to share their findings or interesting facts from the Wonderopolis science lesson

Go around the room and have students share their favorite thing about the day

An additional option would be to end the day with my Zoom Only Meeting idea: Show Us Your Talent.

With this Zoom meeting, students will have the opportunity to share a special talent with the class via a Zoom Meeting. You can read more about this idea in my Back to School Team Building Resource found

Below are the links to the free resources in this blog. All of the links can also be accessed in the First Day of Distance Learning Lesson Plan.

1.) First Day of Distance Learning Lesson Plan

2.) Editable Student Schedule via Google Classroom

3.) Complete Student Schedule via Google Classroom

4.) Editable Zoom Meeting Invitations

5.) Character Education Blog Post with Picture Books and Writing Prompts

6.) Wonderopolis Science Lesson

7.) Google Slides Technology Scavenger Hunt via Google Slides

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Virtual First Day Back to School: Lesson Plans and Activities -

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End of Year Assessment from Previous Year

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End of Year Assessment from Previous Year

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Primary assessments to download or order in print

To help teachers check progress and understanding of content, we release end of block and end of term assessments.

These primary school assessments are available as FREE downloads.

In addition, primary end of term assessments are available to buy in printed format to save schools time and resources preparing them. They are designed and produced to reflect SATS papers to give children the feel of a more formal assessment process.

Keep an eye on the White Rose Maths Twitter and Facebook pages for updates to our maths learning resources, and announcements on new materials as they are released.

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Primary Assessment | White Rose Maths | Free School Resources

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To help teachers check progress and understanding of content, we release end of block and end of term assessments. These primary school assessments are available as FREE downloads. In addition, primary end of term assessments are available to buy in printed format to save schools time and resources preparing them.

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1. Phase 2&3 recap
2. Read book - short vowels
3. Seesaw - PHONICS - Hearing Sounds CVC words

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Introduction - Getting to know each other
Talk about summer vacation

Show and tell - show fav toy

Best memory from Year 1

What are your expectations for Year 2?

Introduce  TA and Teacher
https://www.twinkl.ro/resource/au-c-446-meet-the-teacher-powerpoint

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Read aloud:
Option 1: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL https://www.getepic.com/app/read/42374

or

Option 2: SPLAT THE CAT https://www.getepic.com/app/read/59708

Draw in SEL topics from text

Prompt questions that will build connections or discussions where chn can make personal connections

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First play Simon Says

Then Responsive Classroom Activity

Say “Sometimes I feel ______,” and allow students
to show a connection. Some examples:
• excited • nervous
• shy • scared
• angry • silly
• happy

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Read and discuss My Mindful Day: Connection
https://www.getepic.com/app/read/67396

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Interactive Pear Deck Presentation: getting to know you games

or https://www.twinkl.ro/resource/cfe-c-1760-back-to-school-things-i-know-at-early-level-powerpoint

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Interactive Pear Deck Presentations or PPTs for English, Math, IPC- Super Humans introduction

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Interactive Pear Deck Presentations or PPTs for English, Math, IPC- Super Humans introduction

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All About Me, Monster Glyph

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First 10 days

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1. Phase 2&3 recap
2. Read book - word families
3. Seesaw - PHONICS - Reading CVC words