Optimizing "familiarization week" for first graders is very important!

The Ministry of Education and Training issued the 2024-2025 school year time plan framework, which stipulates that "For grade 1 only, school starts at least 2 weeks before the opening day", demonstrating the importance of the familiarization week (week 0) for grade 1 students.

Entering grade 1, students are still confused and unfamiliar with the activities in primary school. They are familiar with the activities in kindergarten which are both studying and playing, and playing is still the main activity.

Welcoming first grade students (school year 2023-2024) at Cam Xuyen Town Primary School, Cam Xuyen District, Ha Tinh Province.

Therefore, to create a mindset and readiness for first graders to get into learning activities, right from the first lessons, teachers need to create a friendly, close atmosphere and form positive learning habits for students.

Close and friendly

The first contact between teachers and first graders is a very important milestone that leaves a deep impression on each student's life.

Therefore, every behavior, every communication language (words, eyes, smiles, holding hands, stroking heads...) of teachers must be extremely exemplary in order to leave in students an impression of gentleness, softness, closeness, tolerance, sharing...

Therefore, on the first day of welcoming students to class, first grade teachers must be outstanding, friendly, and as pretty as possible, and more importantly, must always have compliments and smiles on their lips when holding each student's hand and entering the classroom.

The impression of the first grade teacher in the first lesson will be an indelible mark in the mind of each student. For primary schools, the welcoming ceremony for first graders on the first day of school must be given special attention; every aspect must be prepared so that the welcoming ceremony for first graders takes place in a friendly but solemn manner, leaving many deep and beautiful impressions on each student.

Order and discipline

Coming to the first lessons, everything is new and strange. All actions, postures, ways of speaking, communication (receiving work, answering) formed in this stage are extremely important because they will follow the children throughout their study and work life.

Correct and beautiful actions, habits, postures and manners will be very beneficial in the long run and vice versa. Therefore, in the first lessons, teachers need to be very precise, clear and decisive (no mistakes, no extra, gentle but uncompromising).

If the familiarization week is done well, students know all the operations, teachers and students agree on conventions and symbols, then teaching and learning will become easier, and there will be no more situations where teachers are hoarse and tired.

To do this, teachers need to help students recognize tasks through learning gestures and signs such as: body language signs (sitting upright, not talking, not doing personal work...), signs for tapping the ruler on the classroom board (taking and putting away notebooks, books, supplies; reading individually, in groups, in teams...), signs for analyzing rhymes, sounds, reading fluently, reading analytically... From there, students form a quick, bold, orderly and disciplined style.

When assigning tasks to students, teachers should note: only assign tasks once, commands or symbols must be clear, ensuring all students hear and understand. When assigning tasks and demonstrating, teachers must stand in a suitable position so that all students can hear and observe (center in front of the podium).

The first lesson of grade 1A students (school year 2023-2024), Xuan Hoi Primary School, Nghi Xuan district, Ha Tinh province.

After assigning work, the teacher must go down to the classroom to check the work of all students, help and guide students who have not completed it; make sure all students complete it before assigning another task.

To make the first lessons go smoothly, attractively and effectively, truly making first graders feel "Going to school is happiness", "Every day at school is a happy day", requires first grade teachers to diversify the organization of teaching, especially need to pay attention to organizing games to consolidate skills.

Teaching first graders is hard but also glorious. Because first grade teachers are the ones who carry the important mission of forming movements, learning skills, behavior, communication language, living habits and all the beginnings of forming a person's personality.

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