My favorite activities to do at the beginning of the year (2nd grade)

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This slideshow showcases a teacher's favorite activities for the beginning of the school year in a 2nd-grade classroom. Activities include reading "Our Class is a Family" and making friendship bracelets, creating self-portraits for a mission statement poster, reading "Alma & the Worry Stone" and making worry stones, and reading "First Day Jitters" while drinking "Jitter Juice."

Structure

1Introduction to favorite back-to-school activities
2Reading "Our Class is a Family" and making friendship bracelets
3Creating self-portraits for a mission statement poster
4Reading "Alma & the Worry Stone" and making worry stones

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Thank you @Neely 🍎💖✏️ for the worry stone idea!! #firstdayofschool #2ndgradeteachers #teachersoftiktok #EduTok #elementaryschool

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My favorite activities to do at the beginning of the year (2nd grade) Read Our Class is a Family & make friendship bracelets Create self portraits and add them to our Mission Statement poster Our cute bracelets This is a new one for me-Read Alma & the Worry Stone (about first day worries) Created our own Worry Stones out of air dry clay Read First Day Jitters & drink "Jitter Juice" to take all our jitters away!

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