Back to School Activities | First Week of School | Beginning of the Year BUNDLE

Heading back to school is such an exciting time for our students. Spend those first days back with a collection of activities that help your students get to know you and their classmates. This BUNDLE includes over 30 printable activities and 20 digital activities that are perfect for the first weeks of school.

The DIGITAL pages are available in Google Classroom. However, they can also be downloaded from there as PowerPoint files. Aside from the main titles, you can edit almost all of the directions and text to meet the needs of your classroom.

Please note that the printable pages are NOT editable.

If you're interested in purchasing the digital pages ONLY, click HERE!

If you're interested in purchasing the printable pages ONLY, click HERE!

DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES

• Rolling Into a New Year – NEW IN 2023
• Level Up – NEW IN 2023
• Student Questionnaire
• Summer Stickers
• InstaSummer
• A Letter to Myself
• Back to School Emotions
• First Day, First Impressions
• Back to School Selfie
• Math About Me
• Figure Me Out
• Getting to Know My Teacher 3-2-1
• “Hello! My Name is...”
• 2 Truths and a Fib
• Welcome to __ Grade
• Back to School Roll-a-Story
• Opinion Writing: The Best Subject

DIGITAL ACTIVITIES ONLY

• Meet the Teacher
• My Teacher: True or False
• Teacher Q & A

PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES ONLY

• “Get to Know...” Pennant – UPDATED IN 2023
• Let’s FLAMINGLE – A “Find Someone Who” Activity – UPDATED IN 2023
• Navigate & Locate (Scavenger Hunt) – UPDATED IN 2023
• All About My Child (for parents to complete) - UPDATED IN 2023
• Back to School Favorites
• Back to School Fortune Teller
• Name Plates (versions available for grades 2-6)
• “Our Best & Brightest Work Coming Soon!” signs for bulletin boards
• Summer Slideshow – UPDATED IN 2023
• “A Look Back at My Summer” Writing Paper – UPDATED IN 2023
• Back to School Q&A – UPDATED IN 2023
• Classmate Interview
• “Top 10 Things to Know About...” (Goes with classmate interview)
• Classroom Rules Activity
• Routines & Procedures: Note-Taking Page
• Tangram Activity
• “First Day” and “Last Day” Posters (available for grades 2-6) – UPDATED IN 2023

Here’s what teachers just like you are saying about this resource:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Leila E. says, “The variety here is awesome! There are a ton of fun, engaging activities that get kids reflecting on their summer and the upcoming school year. These are also great to leave for a supply teacher early in the year. I love that they're so visually appealing, too!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Emily H. says, “These are all such fun and creative ways to start the school year! The students who come to my class always love them and leave the school with more excitement and less anxiety about the first couple days of school! Thank you.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Paige D. says, “My students loved this resource as a way to introduce themselves and to also get to know me. There were enough activities and resources to spread them out across the first weeks of school to ease my students into the classroom setting again. And, the information gathered from the activities really gave me insight to my learners.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heather S. says, “I used this for the first week and a half of school.  It helped me get to know the students and helped the students find classmates they had things in common with.  Very well organized, everything was there and easy to use, no big prep.  Most of the activities could be extended and my students really enjoyed these hands-on tasks.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alison P. says, “I absolutely loved this resource. I am a first-year teacher and was struggling to find get to know you activities and gauge my student's ability in reading and writing and this resource allowed me to do this. I am so happy that I saved so much time and stress and made this purchase! It has resources for grades 2-6 so that if you change grades you can still use this resource the next year!”

Please email me at rebecca@createteachshare.com with any questions or comments!