A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Activity - Adapted

Want a meaningful extension activity after reading aloud A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School by Shannon Olsen? This book companion is a booklet of writing prompts (or a “letter”) for students to write in response to their teacher after listening to the story. 

The pages can be copied and stapled together in a packet, or however you might choose to bind them. You can use all of the pages provided, or just pick and choose specific ones you want to include.

This particular version is for BEGINNING WRITERS, with sentence frames and more simplified writing prompts than the original book companion, which can be found here: A Letter From Your Teacher Book Companion. This newly adapted resource may be more well suited for kindergarten, other primary classes, or students who need modified writing supports.

This resource comes with a printable pdf and digital Google Slides version of:

-2 book cover options (boy and girl)

-Greeting page with space for an illustration of student and teacher-Multiple pages of "get to know you" writing prompts that connect with the book, with spaces for students to illustrate. Please see the preview tab to view these pages.

• Greeting page
• "There are a few important things I'd like for you to know..."
• "All the things that make me ME!"
• "You'll get to meet my family"
• "I will celebrate with you when I have exciting news..."
• "I'll greet you every morning!"
• "I want to set high goals"
• "Learning isn't just about the schoolwork that I do..."
• Closing page

-An extra set of all of the same pages above in half-page templates for saving paper. They can be cut in half and used to create mini books. 

-Writing page templates, in case you would like to have students write an actual letter in the traditional letter-writing format. These pages could also be utilized for a writing center at a later time in the school year. Pages with primary dotted writing lines and regular writing lines are provided to meet the needs of your students.

Here's what teachers are saying about this book companion:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This was a great way to start off the year with my students and get to know them better! It was so sweet to see them write about things they were excited to share."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My students were engaged and were so excited to complete the activity. I really liked that I was able to customize it and choose just the pages I needed for my class."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This is the perfect activity if you plan to read "A Letter from Your Teacher..." to your class this year. I love the options based on your students' ages/levels. It was super engaging and I can't wait to use it every year!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My kids loved this booklet and it was great for my beginning writers. Highly recommend!!"

You might also like this discounted GROWING BUNDLE of extension activities for all 4 books by Shannon Olsen, which includes these resources and more:

Our Class is a Family Class Family Album

Our Class is a Family bookmarks

Our Class is a Family Memory Book for the End of the Year

Our School is a Family Book Companion

A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School Book Companion

A Letter From Your Teacher: On the Last Day of School Book Companion

Or this MEGA Growing Bundle, which includes all of the above, plus a whole school year's worth of Our Class is a Family themed Morning Meetings for weekly class community building.

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