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school tips

• 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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