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Adorable David Goes to School Craft for Making Good Choices
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Introducing classroom rules, routines, and procedures at the start of the school year can be quite the adventure, especially in early primary classrooms! With an abundance of new routines and procedures to navigate, it’s no small feat. I like to kick off the new school year by establishing classroom rules and promoting positive behavior with this David Goes to School craft! “David Goes to School” is one of my favorite read alouds for fostering positive expectations. While it primarily addresses challenging behavior, I love to flip those negatives into positives as we make text-to-self connections!
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David Goes to School Craft Prep
This is the perfect back to school craft, as it is simple and easy to prep!
First, decide which response page will be best for your students. There are six different pages to choose from that allow your students to make a text-to-self connection.
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Some pages have more room for writing, while others simply require the student’s name, leaving a large amount of space for drawing.
Next, you will want to prep the David Goes to School craft pieces. A print and color option is included, or you can print the pieces on construction paper or card stock.
If you decide to go this route, you will need blue, black, red, and skin colored construction paper or card stock.
David Goes to School Read Aloud
Before starting our David Goes to School craft, we read “David Goes to School” by David Shannon as a whole class.
This back to school book follows the misadventures of a young boy named David, as he navigates a typical school day. Throughout the story, David engages in various antics, such as chewing gum, talking out of turn, and forgetting his homework… which often lead to reprimands from his teacher.
“”David Goes to School” humorously depicts the challenges that children may face in following classroom rules and expectations. Despite David’s misbehavior, the underlying message of the book is about learning and growing, as well as the importance of understanding and following rules.
As we are reading this text, I love to stop along the way to make connections. It is a great opportunity to discuss the consequences of one’s actions.
We then create a “No, David!” and “Yes, David!” anchor chart, as we brainstorm a list of ways we can make good choices. This anchor chart is the perfect segue into our David Goes to School craft!
For an actual picture of this anchor chart, head to this blog post!
David Goes to School Craft Directions
First, we complete our response page. I like to model this step for my students.
We talk about how to not only write the good choices we plan to make, but we also discuss what that might look like in drawing format.
Next, we carefully cut around the thick black line of the response sheet.
Then, it is time to cut out the all of the craft pieces. If you went with the cut and color option, you will want to have your students color first before cutting.
There are several easy-to-cut pieces for this craft, which is great for strengthening those fine motor muscles.
Once all of the pieces have been cut, it is time to assemble the David Goes to School craft.
First, glue the response sheet to the belly.
Next, adhere the hands on top of the response sheet to make it appear as though David is holding the paper.
After that, attach the head to the top of the body.
Then, add the mouth, ears, and hair.
The final step involves gluing the legs to the body and then the shoes to the legs. This is an optional step. If you plan to hang these as a bulletin board display and don’t have as much room, you can skip legs and feet.
Once our David Goes to School craft is complete, we spend some time as a whole class sharing the good choices we wrote/drew.
David Goes to School Craft for Making Good Choices
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More David Goes to School Activities
We also extend our learning with David Goes to School into reading and math!
Throughout the week, we dive deep into comprehension. In addition to making text-to-self connections, we also retell the story as we sequence the beginning, middle and end.
We discuss the elements of the story, including characters, setting, problem and solution.
Then, we build our vocabulary by defining new words from the story using chants, rhymes and hand motions.
During center time, we practice forming the letters, rhyming, counting syllables, identifying upper and lowercase letters, 1:1 counting, subitizing, recognizing shapes and more!
Head to this blog post, for a closer look at these David Goes to School activities!
Other Back to School Activities
Learn all about your students with this all about me backpack craft!
Enjoy this Chrysanthemum name craft for back to school!
You might also love this first day of school pencil craft for preschool and kindergarten!
Discover more great back-to-school read alouds for teaching classroom rules here!
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Ashley Sharp
As a dedicated Kindergarten teacher for nearly 20 years, I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!
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