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• Make a copy of this list to use before school starts each year.

• Make bulletin-board decisions: where to post announcements, menu, and calendar; what kind of welcome-back display to make; which boards will be for subject-area work and which boards students will design; where to display students’ original work. 

• Set up learning centers

• Make signs for room

• Prepare class rolls and permanent records 

• Make class list to post on door

• Put your name outside the door 

• Make student name tags for desks or have them make their own

• Find out schedules for lunch, gym, art, music, library 

• Obtain supplies

• Textbooks and supplemental materials

• Plan books

• Storybooks for read-alouds

• Attendance materials 

• Paper clips

• Construction paper

• Manila folders 

• Different kinds of tape 

• Extra writing paper 

• Grade book 

• Rubber bands

• Stapler and staples  

• Handwriting paper 

• Spare pencils/pens 

• Tissues 

• Prepare packets for students to take home the first day. Include: 

• Emergency forms

• School rules

• Supplies 

• Bus or transportation rules  

• Note to parents/request for room-parents

• Check to see which students may be going to special classes

• Check out library books and read-alouds

• Set up a folder for a substitute to use in case of emergency 

• Daily schedule (fill in as soon as possible) 

• Seating chart (fill in as soon as possible) 

• Reproducible activities

• Prepare a file for correspondence from parents

• Prepare a file for faculty bulletins 

• Write tentative lesson plans for the coming week 

• Duplicate materials needed for the first few days

• Write your name and other important information on the board 

• Make a checklist for returned forms (can be used later for report cards and other items)

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