Back to School

I can't believe it's back-to-school time! As I'm preparing for the kids to return, I've put together several getting-to-know-each-other activities for students to do in the first few days of school and have posted them to my TpT store (click here to access). Here's what it includes:

• “I am” fill-in-the-blank worksheet with space for illustration
• Welcome interview for students to give each other
• Human bingo
• “School Rules” worksheet for correcting sentences while learning rules
• Compare and contrast Venn Diagram to go with the book First Day Jitters
• Math scavenger hunt to get kids thinking about numbers
• “School Days” ABC order
• Autobiographical puzzle worksheet
• Time capsule to be completed now (saved) and completed again at the end of the year for comparison
• Family album sheet (each kid completes and you add it to a 3-ring-binder that becomes a class “family album”)
• Smarty take-home (sent with a Smartie candy attached on the first day of school)

I'm still deciding which ones I want to use as first-day activities and which I will use as morning work throughout the first week of school. They're fun, flexible activities for kids. Most can be done in any elementary classroom, but they're definitely geared more for second or third graders. I hope you find them useful!