First day of school digital stand up sit down and printable activity to welcome

Needs something fun for your first day of school? These two activities are perfect to get to know your students, welcome them on their first day and start community building, make them feel comfortable and at ease and also be mindful and reflect together.

What's included?

Stand up sit down questions activity:
⭐This is a digital activity, already loved by many teachers, where students will see a question on the screen and if they agree they will stand up.

⭐The questions are aimed to be fun and make students laugh but also to give an insight to the teacher about the students to start getting to know them.

⭐It does not require the students to move around the classroom and can be done at their desk, which makes it perfect, calm but fun activity for the first day of school.

⭐There are editable pages where you can choose to add more questions if you wish.


Printable booklet:
⭐A booklet to encourage students to reflect, think, be creative and feel part of a community and to also help the teacher to get to know the students.

⭐The pages include the following:
1. Cover page for students to color and write the new grade they are starting.

2. A page for students to color and write their name.

3. A page for students to fill out information about themselves.

4. Drawing themselves and writing the name of their school.

5. The classroom rules (can be edited) and writing their name as an agreement to follow the rules.

6. Writing or drawing ways of being kind.

7. Writing or drawing ways of being a good friend.

8. A place to write the 3 star words: please, thank you and sorry.

9. An open place to write something in a heart. (An activity idea to help students think before they speak is provided to go along with this page).

10. A page to reflect on their first week and a page to reflect on the new year.

⭐⭐SUPER SIMPLE TO PREPARE!

The pages are already arranged after each other in a way that you just need to fold from the middle after you print to form the booklet.

The booklet can be stapled from the middle, tied around with string or ribbon or left as folded loose sheets!


All about me phone
⭐ Students love their phone and social media! What better way to connect with them on the first day than this all about me phone activity! Students will relate to it and love it whilst it give you a chance to get to know them better.

⭐The students will need to write their name and age and draw their:
themselves, family, house, hobby, favorite color, favorite food, favorite animal,

favorite subject, favorite season, wish for when they grow up

⭐What makes this resource great is that it comes with a lot of flexibility. You can choose different sizes! You can have the phone on one whole page so the students have more space to draw or you can choose to print 2 on a page, this is ideal if you want to display these and don't have a lot of space! In addition there is also the option to edit the text under the boxes to include other things that you would like the students to draw. Both sizes come in a PowerPoint file, with the textboxes included so you can just click and type!

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