Back to School Activities First Week Beginning of the Year

DIGITAL & PRINTABLE Back to school and First Week of School Activities is the perfect way to start your school year, engage first, second, and third graders. No prep printables will save you time, and help you create a classroom community.

This product includes:

- Over 60 Activities (Printable and Digital)

- Ideas for Using the Activities

- Book Suggestions

- Activity Ideas

Updated 8/9/20:

• First Week Activities have been made available in Google Slides™ with text boxes.
• Please note, this is NOT an “editable” product. You CAN delete text boxes, add text boxes, and/or add directions within the text boxes. However, you aren’t able to change any of the design elements.
• Additionally, you can print from the PDF file (there are no text boxes in that file).
• You (or students) can make the font larger or smaller depending on the amount of text you type into the text box.
• If printing directly from Google Slides™, delete any text or text box you don’t want to print. Using the print menu, select only the pages you want to print. Then, print.

INCLUDED:

- Name Tags (I print on card stock, laminate, and put on yarn)

- First Day Book Recommendations

- Goodby Summer, Hello School Graphic Organizer

- My First Day Graphic Organizer

- What-If Wonder Activities (use with William the What-If Wonder)

- My Summer Vacation Graphic Organizer

- 1st Day Self Portrait (for drawing or gluing first day picture onto)

- How I Spent My Summer Vacation Writing (6 options)

- My Family Drawing/Writing (3 options)

- My Teacher Drawing

- The Best Teacher Brainstorm (2 options)

- How Can My Teacher Help Me? (2 options)

- Being Respectful & Being Unique Book Recommendations

- All About Me

- All About Me Foldable Activity

- Math About Me

- Friendship & Kindness Book Recommendations

- My New Friend (interview a classmate)

- My New Friends/Who’s in My Class? (4 options)

- A Bucket Filler Graphic Organizer (2 options)

- Bucket Filler ABCs

- A Good Friend Graphic Organizer

- Good Friend ABCs

- Teaching Classroom Rules, Procedures, & Expectations Book Recommendations

- Our Classroom Rules Graphic Organizer (3 options)

- When Should I Tell? (2 options)

- Reporting or Tattling?

- A Good Listener (3 options)

- Growth Mindset Book Recommendations

- Growth Mindset T-Charts

- Monthly Self Portrait Drawings

- Future World Changer/Future Leader/My Future’s Bright Drawing/ Picture Background

Here are some ideas:

- Interactive Notebooks Journals

- Progressive Memory Books

- Morning Work

- Centers

- Workstations

- Independent Activity

- Free Choice Activity

- Writing Center

- Small Groups

- Bulletin Boards

- Open House

- Back to School Night

For some activities (like the self portrait), it’s fun to have students complete it again several times throughout the year, and place in a progressive memory book, or file to be sent home at the end of the year.

There is also an included PDF that shows how Learn how to move Google Drive™ lessons over to the other platforms and apps including:

• Microsoft OneDrive™
• Google Classroom™
• Schoology™
• Nearpod™
• Canvas™
• Pic Collage™
• Seesaw™