Empowering Connection: First Week of School Bootcamp

Let's start the school year with Less Stress and No Mess!

Plus...you can earn up to 9 CPE hours right at your door! 

Launching Literacy Centers $5.00

This training includes step by step procedures to teach your K-2 students about your literacy centers that includes: 

Drama, Listening, Library, Geography, Read & Write the Room, Big Books, Poetry, Theme, Science, Construction/STEM, Finger Puppets, Felt Board, Technology, Kitchen, Writing, Math, Author Study and Word Work, Art and Calendar. 

* "I Can" cards for each center

* Editable Center Checklists for accountability.

* Center Templates

* Small & Large Center Icons

*How to Organize Each Center

*Must Do/May Do Centers

*Behavior Management

*Which Ones to Switch Out or Not 

 

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Classroom Systems $5.00

This training includes a step by step plan on how to set up your classroom K-2 classroom including: 

* How to Organize Your Mentor Texts

*How to Organize Your Teacher Table

*How to Organize Your Weekly Supplies/Copies

*How to Organize Student Supplies

*How to Organize Your Units

*How to Organize Graded Papers and Handing Them Back

*How to Organize Manipulatives

*Class Jobs

*First Day of School Rules/Procedures

*Morning Procedures

*Dismissal Procedures

*Interactive Notebooks

*Anchor Charts

*Teacher Chair Supplies

*Behavior Management Systems

 

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First 10 Days of Reader's Workshop $5.00

This training includes the first 10 days of how to set up and launch your Reader's Workshop.  This training also provides lesson plans, with objectives, suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, skill cards, vocabulary cards, and differentiated interactive notebooks to meet the needs of your students. 

Lesson 1: Why Do Readers Read?

Lesson 2: What Does Reading Time Look & Sound Like?

Lesson 3: How Do We Treat Books?

Lesson 4: Can’t Is Buried

Lesson 5: What is Your Schema?

Lesson 6 &7: Retelling BME

Lesson 8,9,&10: Text to Self Connections

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First 10 Days of Writer's Workshop $5.00

 This training includes the first 10 days of how to set up and launch your Writer's Workshop.  This training also provides lesson plans, with objectives, suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, skill cards, vocabulary cards, and differentiated interactive notebooks to meet the needs of your students. 

Lesson 1: Write From Your Heart

Lesson 2: What Does Writing Time Look Like?

Lesson 3: How to Use a Dictionary

Lesson 4: What is an Author and an Illustrator?

Lesson 5: Creating Mental Images

Lesson 6: Intro to Tiny Moments

Lesson 7: BME

Lesson 8: BME

Lesson 9: Final Draft

Lesson 10: Publishing  

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First 10 Days of Science $5.00

 This training includes the first 10 days of how to set up your Science block.  This training also provides lesson plans, with objectives, suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, skill cards, vocabulary cards, and differentiated interactive notebooks to meet the needs of your students. 

Lesson 1: What is Science?

Lesson 2: What is the Scientific Method?

Lesson 3: What is a Scientist?

Lesson 4: What Are Science Tools?

Lesson 5: What Are Science Tools?

Lesson 6: Sorting Properties By Touch

Lesson 7: Sorting Properties By Sight

Lesson 8: Sorting Properties By Taste

Lesson 9: Sorting Properties By Smell

Lesson 10: Sorting Properties By Sound

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First 10 Days of Math Workshop  $5.00

 This training includes the first 10 days of how to set up and launch your Writer's Workshop.  This training also provides lesson plans, with objectives, suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, skill cards, vocabulary cards, and differentiated interactive notebooks to meet the needs of your students. 

Lesson 1: Graphing How Do We Get Home?

Lesson 2: What is a Mathematician/Intro to Manipulatives

Lesson 3: What is Math Workshop/ Intro to Manipulatives

Lesson 4: What is Math Workshop/Intro to Stations

Lesson 5: What is Math Workshop/ Intro to Stations

Lesson 6: Adding Sums of Ten/Intro to Stations

Lesson 7: Adding Sums of Ten/Intro to Stations

Lesson 8: Adding Sums of Ten/Intro to Stations

Lesson 9: Adding Sums of Ten/Intro to Stations

Lesson 10: Adding Sums of Ten/Intro to Stations

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First 10 Days of Social Studies $5.00

This training includes the first 10 days of how to set up your Social Studies block with an "All About Me" Theme.  This training also provides lesson plans, with objectives, suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, skill cards, vocabulary cards, and differentiated interactive notebooks to meet the needs of your students. 

Lesson #1: Our Class is a Family

Lesson #2: A Letter From Your Teacher

Lesson #3: We Are Kings & Queens

Lesson #4: We Are Kings & Queens

Lesson #5: Creating a Mental Image

Lesson #6: Comparing Rules

Lesson #7: Self-Awareness

Lesson #8: I Can Show Self-Awareness

Lesson #9: Social Awareness

Lesson #10: I Can Show Social Awareness

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First 10 Days of Phonics $5.00

 This training includes the first 10 days of how to set up your Phonics block if you don't have a set curriculcum.  This training also provides lesson plans, with objectives, suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, skill cards, vocabulary cards, and differentiated interactive notebooks to meet the needs of your students. 

Lessons #1-5: Read/Spell with Short A 

Lessons #6-10: Read/Spell with Short U

 

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Building Relationships with Students & Parents $5.00

 This training provides you with all the tools to successfully meet the teacher night and build relationships with your students and parents. This training includes:

*Behavior Management Economy System with Bonus Bucks

*Meet the Teacher Night Ideas/Templates/Activities

*Parent Night Ideas/Templates/Activities

*Morning Meeting Ideas Using Great 8 Skills

*How to Utilize a Star Student

*How to Have Effective Parent Communication

*How to Teach Conflict/Resolution

Above all, to gain the tools to have a successful and risk-free environment so your students can thrive, feel safe, and loved!

 

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Plus a FREE EDITABLE

Back to School Slideshow  

This slideshow has all the rules and procedures that you need to introduce to your students and the best part is that it's editable to meet your own needs! This resource is only available in my Bootcamp! 

Janina Abrams 

I wholeheartedly recommend the first week of school bootcamp to all K-2 teachers. It’s a fantastic way to set a positive tone for the year, build a strong classroom community, and establish effective routines and procedures. If you’re looking for a way  to start the school year on the right foot, this bootcamp is definitely worth attending.

Misty Jolly-Lewis

Bootcamp has been so amazing. I have been a teacher since 1995 and am still learning new ways to do things! Just when I thought I would enjoy relaxing for the summer, I attended Kara Rickman 's Bootcamp and now my brain is on fire with all of the  thoughts about how to do things differently next school year. Bootcamp is absolutely worth it! I would have paid $35 for just the 1st day!

Adrianne Philpot

This bootcamp is going to be a lifesaver for me this year! I have worked in Pre-K for ten years- nine as a para and one as a lead- and this will be my first year in first grade. I have been so overwhelmed thinking about where to even start on the first  week. Kara’s bootcamp walks you through every single step of the way! I already feel so much more confident than I did before starting this camp and we’re not even finished yet! Thank you SO MUCH Kara Rickman!!!🩷

Jillaine Dechance

If you haven’t done this bootcamp woth Kara Rickman, do it! She’s got some great ideas, lots of freebie files, and even this 35-year veteran got new info and got recharged to start the year fresh.