First Day and Week in the Special Education Classroom: Back to School Activities

First Day and Week in the Special Education Classroom

Back-to-school information forms, student activities, crafts, anchor chart lesson, behavior expectations, routines and procedures, social story, social script, first week of school journal, goal setting and more!

Have you ever wondered what to do with your students when they first come to your special education classroom?

Every special education classroom is unique and structured differently. I created this product with the special education teacher in mind to meet the needs of many students. My hope is that this product will fill your classroom with fun activities and tools to get the school year started off right. Happy back to school season and have a great school year!

Within this product you will find:

2 Parent letters: Letters to send home to welcome families and provide information

Parent Information Form: form to send home to gather information

Student Information Form: Student information form for parent to fill out

Meet the Teacher Form: Getting to know the teacher with questions to answer

First day interview: Student interview form for student to answer questions

Who I am Questionnaire: Student activity to learn about learning style and positive reinforcement

Self Portrait Drawing: Self portrait of student to display in classroom

My Background Activity: Tablet design student information worksheet

All About Me: Student craft to create an all about me classroom banner

Summer Snapshot: student writing activity

Summer Spotlight: Writing summer reflection (3 differentiated versions)

Goal setting: students set goals for the year and actionable steps to reach their goals.

New Learning: students write about four new things they would like to learn.

My first week journal: Daily journal for students to record first week feelings, new learning and reflection

Anchor Chart Lesson: Routine and procedure cards to review and post on anchor chart for students to refer to when needed.

Routines and Procedures: recording sheets to review classroom routines and procedures.

Procedure Cheat Sheet: student recording sheet for procedures

Things Around the Room: classroom scavenger hunt

Student schedule templates: 3 options

Social Script: First day of School

Social Story: Social story about starting a new school year with an activity included.

First day of school completion certificate: student certificate for completing the first day of school

Printing options:

Color version: Pages: 2-52

Black and white printer friendly version: Pages: 54-104

If you have any questions, please contact me at BrookeReaganTPT@gmail.com

You might also like:

IEP Party: Special Education Beginning of the Year Meeting

Beginning of the Year Student Gift Tags

Looking for end of the year activities?

Check out:

End of the Year Activities: Last Days in the Special Education Classroom

This purchase is for ONE classroom only.

This is a single classroom download, which means this product CANNOT be shared from teacher to teacher. If you are interested in sharing it with other classrooms, you can purchase additional licenses using the Teachers Pay Teachers tool located in your account under "My Purchases."

Brooke Reagan

© Brooke Reagan 2017