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

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  • 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. 

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  • Set up learning centers

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  • Make signs for room

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  • Prepare class rolls and permanent records 

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  • Make class list to post on door

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  • Put your name outside the door 

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

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

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  • Obtain supplies

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  • Textbooks and supplemental materials

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  • Plan books

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  • Storybooks for read-alouds

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  • Attendance materials 

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  • Paper clips

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  • Construction paper

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  • Manila folders 

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  • Different kinds of tape 

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  • Extra writing paper 

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  • Grade book 

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  • Rubber bands

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  • Stapler and staples  

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  • Handwriting paper 

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  • Spare pencils/pens 

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  • Tissues 

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

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  • Emergency forms

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  • School rules

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  • Supplies 

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  • Bus or transportation rules  

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  • Note to parents/request for room-parents

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

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  • Check out library books and read-alouds

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

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  • Daily schedule (fill in as soon as possible) 

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  • Seating chart (fill in as soon as possible) 

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  • Reproducible activities

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  • Prepare a file for correspondence from parents

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  • Prepare a file for faculty bulletins 

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  • Write tentative lesson plans for the coming week 

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  • Duplicate materials needed for the first few days

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  • Write your name and other important information on the board 

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

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  • Other

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