Greet students at the door! Open seating for the first week while schedules are getting moved around. 

For the first 10 minutes of class, I'll introduce myself and some fun facts, then we'll all play a classic game of 'find someone who'! We'll have printed copies ahead of time. 

We'll head back to our seats, introduce or Kaegan mat mechanics and expectations, and make our nametags!
- Person A will get supplies
- Person C will get paper
This and the material gathering procedure will be about 5 minutes. The nametags should have the student's name, their favorite plant, and their favorite subject or club! This should take about 15 minutes altogether. 

Up next will be a syllabus scavenger hunt where students find and highlight Ms. Leighty's email, the late work policy, the homework policy, the supply list, the retake policy, and grading weights. We'll close out these last 20 minutes of class with a syllabus gimkit or blooket!

Again, greet at the door! This is the norm and will let me check in with students to see how things are going and to greet any newcomers with schedule changes.

Once the bell rings, we'll review our Kaegan mat procedures and have everyone stand in a circle to do today's icebreaker, the question ball! For about 10 minutes, we'll toss the ball around and students will answer whatever question their thumb lands on! 

We'll transition back to our seats, grabbing nametags as we do, and open with our integer operations review lesson so I can get an idea of how strong we are with integers and number sense! To assess speed and fluency, we'll do a short, 5 minute blooket for practice.

I'll assign my first homework to go over expectations and submission guidelines, but keep it short. More integer operations across the number lines, just like in class!

I'll have my first bellwork up on the board! It'll focus on order of operations to get students' brains working on attention to detail. Here, we'll go over the bellwork expectations and procedures, and students will be introduced to 'My Favorite No.' While I'm coming around gathering notecards for 'My Favorite No', I'll also stamp for homework completion.

After bellwork and homework questions, we'll do a brief review and practice of order of operations, followed by an exploration of some exponent rules. We'll review the calculator routines and expectations, then we'll start playing with exponents on our calculators to find patterns. From there, we'll extrapolate to variables after our brain break. 

For our brain break, community builder, and a way to get students up and moving, we'll have small groups team up to try and untangle the human knot! Students will hold opposite group members' hands and try to end up untangled! Tonight's homework will be order of operations and exponent rules. 

Today's bellwork will be a chance for students to ask me questions, vent, or tell me anything privately on their warmup notecards. The first week of school is hard, and students need a moment to process their emotions, especially as we're almost done with the first week! As I'm gathering cards, I'll stamp for homework completion.

After bellwork and homework questions, we'll start our review on combining like terms and the standard form of a polynomial. After our review, students will be assigned to create a page in the classroom ISN slideshow that will serve as the cover of their ISN in the future! Once done with their cover, students will fill out the 'PV Pride to me' activity with examples of what they think PV Pride looks like. While students are creating their cover and PV Pride demos, I will be responding to their questions, comments, and other musings on the notecards. Homework will be on combining like terms and finishing their ISN covers

Friday! Today's bellwork will be examples of linear equations in nature. Again, I'll gather cards for 'My Favorite No' and stamp homework for completion. Once we go over our homework questions, I'll inform students that I will be gathering *all* of their homework from the first week on Monday, and I'll be grading for accuracy. I'll be sure to point out to them that even if they had the answer wrong initially, they can still correct it during the in-class review sessions for full points. 

By now, schedules are solidified, so we'll start in with the linear equations unit! 

For our brain break and community builder, we'll make silly inspirational quotes to place along the walls of our classroom to give us a laugh if things get too serious. No homework, it's Friday!