I am just going to start this list and then date it for the first week of August 2012. We can update stuff as it occurs to us.
To start the year, we can ask ourselves if have addressed these things:
1. All Wall Posters (see poster on this site for examples) including:
a. Verb Wall
b. Word Wall/Word Strips
c. Little Word poster
d. Question Words
e. Location posters
f. Rules 2010
g. Rules 2012 (the bad ass one with the metacognition piece)
h. How is that spelled poster
(all the posters are being moved right now so we can address and update this later)
2. have read any posts we want to under the Beginning the Year category – there are a lot – to remind us of stuff we discussed this year that applies to how we begin each year.
3. Video releases either through class or through routine enrollment forms through the school (reflecting Michael’s idea that we film our kids to show them what they look like as we try to sell the metacognition piece this year).
4. (to be updated)