Back to School Activities

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  • First Day / Week of School Routines
  • First Day of School Activities
  • Pictures of classroom set-up
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Donna
First Day of School - Then and Now Reflections (06-11-2012 )
Edna's Then and Now Reflections on the 10 most important things to do on the first...
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Sally
Getting to Know You (06-11-2012 )
I give students a grid with various descriptors eg. Has seen a certain movie, been...
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Melissa Marshall
First day of school (07-11-2012 )
This Year I am teaching Year 1 and will read the story 'The Kissing Hand' by Audrey...
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Saida Steele
get-ready-to-build-___grade-memories-bulletin-boar (07-11-2012 )
This is a great beginning of the year bulletin board idea! Parents will love...
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Sue Kennedy
First day of school (07-11-2012 )
Read the book 'Possum goes to school'. Then tell children that a possum came into...
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Saida Steele
Saida Steele (07-11-2012 )
This is a great beginning of the year bulletin board idea! Parents will love...
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Megan Thompson
First Day of Kinder books - The Kissing Hand and S (07-11-2012 )
I have used the book 'The Kissing Hand' by Audrey Penn on the first day of Kinder...
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Elaine
Teachers are People Too (07-11-2012 )
At the begining of the year I take in 6 things that tell the children something...
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Helene Boller
Welcome Letters to Students (07-11-2012 )
In the week before school returns I write to each of my students welcoming them to...
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Penny
Classroom Team Building Web - We Are All One (07-11-2012 )
As an introduction activity, I get out a ball of string and ask the children to sit...
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Kylie T
Letter writing to former teacher (07-11-2012 )
A great writing activity for the first few days is to have students brainstorm some...
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Pam
Activities for First Day of Prep (07-11-2012 )
Some ideas for teachers of Prep on That First morning of the First Day! This worked...
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Annie1
Getting to know you - Circle Fun (07-11-2012 )
One way for students to get to know each other better on the first day is a drama...
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Tania
days of the week concept book (07-11-2012 )
I am using the Days of the Week concept book for the first week of Kindergarten this...
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Tania
Parent 'Homework' (07-11-2012 )
Each year I send home a question sheet for the parents. It gives the parents an...
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Jocelyn
Peer Interviews (07-11-2012 )
I used this activity for a group of children who remained at school instead of...
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Michelle
Name Acrostic Poem (07-11-2012 )
Provide each child with a template of their name. They complete an acrostic poem...
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Michelle
MY NAME MAP (07-11-2012 )
Read the story Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. Complete a discussion about names...
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Michelle
We are all different and that's ok (07-11-2012 )
After reading the story Chrysanthemum (Kevin Henkes) I give each student an outline...
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Michelle
Journal Writing (07-11-2012 )
One of the first pieces of writing that I get the children to do is write down two...
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Maria Xenitellis
Book covers (07-11-2012 )
This back to school art activity would look great once finished and can be used to...
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Admin
Great Resources for Back to School (07-11-2012 )
Chrysanthemum - By Kevin Henkes The Important Book - By Margaret Wise Brown The...
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Liz
Friendship Bracelet (07-11-2012 )
I did this activity for the first time last year and the children really loved it...
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Lisa Moos
junior kindergarten teacher (07-11-2012 )
Second semester always has a rough start. Everyone has been away for an extended...
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Michelle
Back to School Activities 2 (07-11-2012 )
VENN DIAGRAM I love to have the students interview each other using a Venn diagram...
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Michelle
Back to School Activities 3 (07-11-2012 )
Animal Introductions... On the first day of school, I pass out animal stickers to...
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Michelle
Back to School Activities 1 (07-11-2012 )
Use the heading - We All Fit In This is a cooperative game for one of the first...
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  • Fairy Tale Vocabulary Suggestion

    Submitted by Karen

    Your fairy tale vocabulary is great can you add more words such as castle, princess, prince, dragon, queen, slipper, ugly step sister, pig, bad wolf, straw, sticks, bricks, basket, red riding hood, grandma, goldilocks, chair, bed, porridge

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  • Year 1 Telling the time

    Submitted by Danielle

    With a year one class we played What's the Time Mr Wolf - but instead of the wolf (myself) calling out 'It's one o'clock!" I used a clock with moveable hands.

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  • Storing Teacher Themed Resources

    Submitted by Jennifer

    I am having a major sort out! Has anyone got any ideas for how to organise teaching theme resources?

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  • I saw an interesting post on Pinterest the other day, showing a plastic, sandwich size, zip-lock bag that had had a piece of duct tape run along the base. The duct tape provided reinforcing that allowed holes to be punched through the bag for storage in a binder. I imagine you could run the tape down the side of larger zip-lock bags for a similar effect. This may not solve all your storage issues, but if there\'s just a few small games to go with a unit that\'s otherwise stored in a binder, it might help!

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  • I was just thinking the other day that I needed some matching cards for numbers over 100 then today I came across the new parts of speech posters and thought I\'d check out the \"What\'s New\" section and there I found exactly what I had been wanting. Thank you so much for your wonderful resources. This is the first place I check when looking for resources and I\'ve been able to build a great collection since moving to the lower school grades last year. Thanks again!

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  • I love the fun and colourful design of these posters! They are fantastic!

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