1st+Grade+Procedures+Video

Welcome to first grade! My students from 2010-2011 made a video for entering first graders and for new students arriving mid year!

** Need: **

Throughout the year my students need a reminder of basic classroom procedures. Also, I frequently have students arrive to my classroom midyear that aren’t familiar with our rules. This video will serve as a convenient and quick recap that I can show frequently throughout the school year. I plan to show this video to my first grade students on the first day of school, the first day back from Fall, Winter, and Spring Break and any other extended days from school. This will serve as a recap of how things work in my classroom. This video can be incorporated along with lectures so the students can have a visual representation of what my expectations are. ** Learning Objective: ** After brainstorming and having a class discussion about our class rules and procedures, students should be able to write storyboards for selected rules and procedures and accurately explain and act out scenes for the video.

** Assessment: **

This lesson began by having a class meeting. I posed a question to my students. If you were brand new to our classroom, what would you need to know about how we do things? Students eagerly raised their hands to give a suggestion (which is a rule of ours they followed and suggested for our project!) They gave me classroom procedures and I recorded them on a chart.

After brainstorming we picked ten procedures and started making storyboards. To introduce movie making to them, we looked at the website kidsvid.4teachers.org. This gave some context to the video lingo I had been using. When making our storyboards, I would give them the rule title and they would fill out the storyboard form I made for them. They included where the scene would take place and the actors needed. Then they wrote out all the details that would need to be covered for that scene. Once we wrote out all ten storyboards we started making cue cards in preparation for filming. The students wrote them out. The cards included, Quiet on the set, Please line up, Welcome to First Grade, Wilson Wildcats, and our school song. We also made a scene marker so that students could cue us to begin shooting while saying, “lights, camera, action!”



The film itself was my assessment for my students. We spent about a week acting out our classroom procedures on film. Kids had to demonstrate and apply the storyboards they wrote. In the future my assessment using this video will be how well my students apply the procedures they viewed. I have now edited the film and have it ready to premier. My class will have a movie star premier this Thursday afternoon. They will walk the red carpet and eat popcorn! Their parents, whom were super supportive of the project, are invited to join us for the viewing of Mrs. Cook’s Class: Room #11 Rules and Procedures!



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