Back To School Activities for the First Month of School | Paper

Start your school year off with a bang with over thirty different activities to get to know your new students while getting them busy working on projects right away. Best of all, you can use these activities any time of year.

Why use this resource?

• learn about your students through writing and drawing. Use their interests to get your planning started.
• build relationships with students and between students using common interests. Create a classroom community you can be proud of all year long.
• create some simple projects that will make a great back to school bulletin board for meet the teacher night, parent/teacher interviews or special occasions at school.
• easy to prep (just print and use) activities that you can use to fill time while you establish classroom routines and procedures.
  

The back to school activities include:

• instructions for all activities and lessons with ideas for differentiation.
• activities that generally take less than five minutes to prepare.
• activities that range from ten minutes to an hour for students to complete.
• Canadian/British and American spellings.
• metric and customary measurements.
• writing tasks and ideas including ways to create bulletin boards.
• classroom community building games and back to school games that don't require lots of extra equipment.
• back to school art projects that are easy and use basic supplies.
• activities that support kindness and empathy in the classroom.
• student pages and templates.
• photographs of student examples.
• no mention of September, so they can be used whenever your school year begins. While you can use these activities throughout the whole first month of school, there are enough activities to use one a day and still have many left over.

Try one of the activities for free!

Ninja Note: This resource requires the buyer to download the PDF and print the pages for students to use. This is not a digital resource.

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