How to start the year with TPRS (part 2) - PQA - after day 1

Ok, so as I mentioned in this previous post, for the last 5 years, I have started with PQA on the first day. Naturally, in my 3rd school, with block scheduling I experimented with:

•  PQA / TPR / PQA again
•  PQA / TPR / Story

But I found that Ben Slavic's Circling with Balls activity that I touched on in the previous entry was essential in establishing:

• classroom routines
• the importance of the class
• interest in class
• excitement for the class
• basic understanding of sentence structure, question words, prepositions, 3rd person forms of verbs interesting to kids, etc
• and much more

As I talked about the first day, I would establish what I do (very slowly) and then maybe move onto another student. I would circle around the information about myself.

Here's an example: