Back to School PowerPoint Presentations (by date, oldest first)

In this accessible, simple learning sequence, explore SEL with children through yoga and mindfulness.

10 slides total, including links to download or learn the activities and printables referenced for FREE

mindful glitter jar

breathing activities

powerful poses

mantra/positive affirmations

CASEL's SEL framework

Can be used for PD or with students on a smartboard or on devices, or print individual slides

On a smartboard on via personal device, share a morning yoga routine with your students.

We have shared this at school assemblies across the US for all grade levels pre-k-8th grade

Celebrate your students’ character and contribution to the classroom with these Civic Virtue Student of the Month Certificates! This resource is a great fit for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. Perfect for building a positive classroom culture, these certificates recognize the virtues that truly make a difference—like courage, perseverance, and open-mindedness. Third, Fourth, and Fifth graders need structure and strong examples to ensure model behavior throughout the year.

Why You Need This:

Every classroom needs a way to recognize and celebrate the values that keep it running smoothly. Civic virtues like responsibility, generosity, and respect aren’t just words on a poster—they’re the behaviors and attitudes that make your classroom a positive and productive space. These certificates are the perfect tool to spotlight and reward those students who embody these essential qualities, making your classroom a place where everyone feels valued and motivated.

What Makes It a Great Resource:

These Civic Virtue Student of the Month Certificates do more than just recognize good behavior—they actively encourage it. By acknowledging students who demonstrate key virtues, you reinforce the importance of these qualities and motivate others to follow suit. Each certificate is beautifully designed, customizable, and can be personalized with the student’s name and your signature. Plus, the certificates use free fonts by Kimberly Geswein, which can easily be downloaded for that polished, professional look.

Key Features:

✨12 Unique Certificates: Each one is dedicated to a different virtue, allowing you to recognize a variety of positive behaviors.

✨Customizable Text: Easily add your student’s name and your signature to highlight how special they are.

✨Professional Design: The certificates are designed with free, high-quality fonts by Kimberly Geswein—KG Eyes Open and KG Sorry Not Sorry—which are available for download to ensure consistency and style.

✨Builds Positive Culture: Rewarding virtues like courage, self-discipline, and tolerance helps to establish and maintain a respectful and supportive classroom environment.

✨Flexible Usage: Use these certificates monthly, quarterly, or whenever a student deserves recognition for their outstanding character.

What’s Included:

✅12 Certificates: One for each civic virtue, ready to be customized for your students.

✅Instruction Guide: Easy-to-follow instructions implementing Civic Virtues certificates in your classroom

✅Editable Fill In Option

✅Printable Write in Option

Why wait to create a classroom culture that truly values character? These Civic Virtue Student of the Month Certificates are a simple yet powerful way to highlight and reward the virtues that matter most. Whether you’re looking to reinforce positive behavior, build a stronger classroom community, or just give your students the recognition they deserve, these certificates are a must-have. Plus, they’re designed with a polished, professional look that’s sure to impress!

Grab this resource today, and start celebrating the virtues that make your classroom a better place to learn and grow!

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Are you looking for a way to seamlessly ✂️ integrate civic virtues into your classroom while building a positive community and enhancing classroom management? The Civic Virtues Bundle is the ultimate resource for upper elementary teachers who want to teach important life skills in a meaningful, engaging way. This bundle includes everything you need to guide your students in understanding and applying key virtues in their daily lives. This bundle is ideal for upper elementary in grades: 3rd, 4th,
and 5th grade. Back to school has never been easier when you get this bundle you can implement strong morals in the first week of school.

Why You Need This Bundle:

This bundle isn’t just a teaching resource—it’s a toolkit for transforming your classroom into a community where students not only learn about virtues but live them. Whether you're focusing on classroom management, fostering respectful conversations, or encouraging self-reflection, this bundle provides all the tools you need. Plus, with a 30% savings♻️, it’s a smart investment for your classroom!

Key Features:

✨Comprehensive Coverage: From posters to writing prompts, this bundle covers all aspects of teaching civic virtues, making it a one-stop-shop for your classroom needs.

✨Engaging Activities: Students will love the interactive card sort, four-corner discussions, and writing prompts that make learning about virtues fun and relevant.

✨Versatile Resources: Use these materials in any subject area, for any grade level, to reinforce positive behavior and build a strong classroom community.

What’s Included:

✅Mini Posters: Half-size posters with definitions and examples of each virtue.

✅Full-Page Posters: Large, eye-catching posters with just the virtue names, perfect for displaying in your classroom.

✅Card Sort Activity: A fun, interactive way for students to match virtues with their correct definitions.

✅Four-Corner Discussion Questions: Engaging prompts to get students talking and thinking critically about virtues.

✅Leveled Questions: Differentiated questions to meet the needs of all learners in your classroom.

✅Writing Prompt Worksheet: Thought-provoking prompts that encourage students to reflect on and apply the virtues they’ve learned.

✅Reflection Sheet: A guided worksheet to help students consider how they can embody these virtues in their daily lives.

✅Student of the Month Certificates: Reward students who exemplify each virtue with these customizable certificates.

This bundle takes the guesswork out of teaching civic virtues and classroom management. With everything organized and ready to go, you can focus on what you do best—teaching. It’s perfect for teachers who want to create a respectful and responsible classroom culture without spending hours preparing materials.

Invest in a resource that not only enhances your teaching but also positively impacts your students’ development. With a 30% discount, this bundle offers incredible value and a lasting impact on your classroom.

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In middle school where you have 150+ students that you see just one period a day, it is tough to get to know them personally. This beginning of the year activity let's them introduce themselves to you by creating a PowerPoint presentation about their likes, dislikes, goals and aspirations.

This fun lesson lets students get creative while writing about their favorite topic - themselves!

This lesson was created for middle school, but could be used for upper elementary or 9th grade as well.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

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I use interactive notebooks in my classroom, this is a flipbook that can be glued or into a composition notebook. The flip book syllabus will also fit in a larger spiral notebook, as well. All of the slides are completely editable. All you need to do is add your own class information over the top of mine. I left my information in as a guide for you.

Students must get their parents to read and sign it . This is a powerpoint file, please make sure you either have access to Power Point or are able to edit or convert Power Point files before downloading.

Jumpstart the back-to-school season with our comprehensive resource designed for grade 7 and 8 teachers. Our "First Week Back" guide offers engaging daily activities to ensure a smooth and successful transition into the new school year. Each day is tailored to captivate students, set clear expectations, and build a positive classroom environment from day one.

What's included:

Day 1

• 21 slides (Includes introducing yourself to the class, basic expectations/rules, name tag creation, knowledge and creativity quiz, and character traits in the classroom.

Day 2

• 31 slides (includes review of day 1, team building activity, math problem solving activity, art/relaxation activity, nature scavenger hunt – note activity is done using metric terms)

Day 3

• 8 slides (listening activity, name tags continued, enneagram test, spelling test, read aloud – Where Oliver Fits In

Day 4

• 29 slides (journal writing, art, “One Job” attention to details activity, learning skills activity, back to school writing activity, math mindset survey.

Bonus

• In A Million Words or Less assignment for parents/guardians. This is something to be sent home on the first day of school.

Note: The powerpoint is editable, but will require you to download specific fonts for formatting purposes. Fonts are listed in the resource.

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Use these Google Slides to teach money math skills in your special education classroom including: identifying dollar bills, counting money, staying within a budget, or next dollar up! The whole group lessons follow a student, Jeremy, as he goes back to school shopping for the beginning of the year!! Perfect for teaching strategies and providing multiple practice opportunities to your math groups! This product is meant to be taught using an interactive whiteboard.

How Do I Use This Resource?

There are 6 whole group math lessons to teach money math strategies. Use your own resources for small group/individual practice, or purchase worksheets/workbooks below!

Download the FREE School Shopping Resource Guide for Lesson Planning Ideas and Community Based Instruction Suggestions!

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These Google Slides are also included in the School Shopping Money Math Unit BUNDLE. Use this product alone, or purchase the bundles to further differentiate instruction, dive deeper into the topic, and meet the needs of your students and your classroom!

These engaging workbooks are perfect for high school and transition age special education students needing support and instruction in the following concepts:

• Community Based Instruction (CBI)
• Functional Life Skills
• Consumer Math
• Money Math

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23 Editable slides of classroom procedures and routines.

Can be linked to your day book and printed.

Manage behavior by prevention and consistent well developed routines for each transition.

Best suited for Elementary School students Grade two to eight.

Back to School Parent Slide Show. Send out all your forms and information in one linked document. Saves time and paper. Includes a welcome to our class slide, class information, places to link your welcome letter, student time table, photos of your class, and all important information. This is in an editable PowerPoint and can easily be uploaded to your google drive and posted on your google classroom. This is best suited for Elementary Grades 1-8.

Includes 38 editable classroom labels with visual pictures to make it easy for your students to locate and return materials. Includes some blank template slides for you to add your own.

Includes Classroom Job Chart with Pictures

Visual Schedule Cards

Primary Morning Calendar with Math and Language

Days of the Week and Months of the Year Posters

Number Words Posters

Monthly Drag and Drop Calendars

Editable classroom labels with pictures

Teddy Bear Student Name Cards/Labels

Primary Expectations pp/printable with link to free online classroom management tools.

Recording sheet for students with needs

Includes everything you need to set up and run your classroom.

Best Suited For Elementary Grades Kindergarten to Eight.

Items:

All Editable:

Digital Day Book and Lesson Plans Template

Free Digital Math Manipulatives and Digital Classroom Management tools such as timers.

Welcome Parents Slide Show and Google Forms Parent Survey

Classroom Labels, Student Name Cards, Classroom Job Chart, and Visual Schedule.

Ongoing Parent/Teacher Communication Recording Sheet and Students with Needs Recording Sheet.

Easy Drag and Drop Monthly Calendars

Digital Regular and Balanced Day Student and Teacher Time Tables

Seating Plans

Bellwork template for middle school science. Easy to edit each day with whatever information you need.

Each day is a different theme, learning target, and success criteria space. Monday-Wednesday includes spaces for upcoming important dates. Each day features a spot to put a funny meme or a YouTube timer.

Monday: Spiral review

Tuesday: Experimental design

Wednesday: Word wall (vocabulary)

Thursday: Graph and data analysis

Friday: TNReady question and article

I usually keep a running file for each quarter and just copy each week's slides. Then I hide the slides I'm not using.

Students roll the dice to unravel a magical and exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and back to school-themed elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, Fun Friday, and more!

✨Seasons & Holidays Roll a Story Bundle✨

✨Holidays Roll a Story Bundle✨

What's Included

• A PowerPoint with 1 unique board
• 1 editable Roll a Story Board
• A QR code on the story board that leads to digital dice (so no dice needed, just devices!)
• Vocabulary page
• Writing page
• Comes in both, Powerpoint and Google Slides!

Story Elements

• Setting (examples: Hogwarts rejects school, school elevator that takes you anywhere, haunted school)

• Protagonists (examples: secret superhero principal, student from the future, hall monitor who takes their job too seriously)

• Conflict (examples: is challenged by, is pranked by, is tricked by)

• Antagonists (examples: overly-competitive gym teacher, student who does homework for money, a mischievous janitor)

• Back to School Elements (examples: time traveling bathroom stall, time capsule, magic vending machine)

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*AVID Nerds resources are available for use in virtual systems like Outschool without the need to purchase extra licenses

AVID students roll the dice to unravel a magical and exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and AVID-themed elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, Fun Friday, and more!

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✨Seasons & Holidays Roll a Story Bundle✨

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What's Included

• A PowerPoint with 1 unique board
• 1 editable Roll a Story Board
• A QR code on the story board that leads to digital dice (so no dice needed, just devices!)
• Vocabulary page
• Writing page
• Comes in both, Powerpoint and Google Slides!

Story Elements

• Setting (examples: AVID field trip gone wrong, Hogwarts rejects school, epic prank war with AVID class vs. teachers)

• Protagonists (examples: secret superhero AVID tutor, AVID student from the past, hypochondriac student)

• Conflict (examples: is challenged by, is pranked by, is tricked by)

• Antagonists (examples: an alien exchange student student who does homework for money overly-enthusiastic AVID teacher)

• Back to School Elements (examples: AVID binder from the future, invisible ink on focused notes hidden door in AVID class)

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This Editable Dojo Classroom Reward Meter is the perfect tool for teachers and educators to incentivize and motivate their students! This digital or printable meter allows you to track and display student progress, reward good behavior, and foster a positive classroom environment. With its easy-to-use, customizable design, you can make it your own and tailor it to your specific needs and preferences.

Whether you are teaching elementary school, middle school, or high school, this reward meter can be customized to meet the needs of your students.

How to Use

1. The first slide includes a meter where you can add your own reward system using text boxes or by printing and handwriting them.

2. The second slide has an example you can use by printing or to get ideas.

3. The last slide allows you to edit the numbers as well as add rewards in each section using text boxes.

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*This resources is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Unearth Fun with Vegetables Matching Game: A Delightful Educational Adventure for Kids!

Introduce your children to the vibrant world of vegetables with our "Vegetables Matching Game", a brilliantly designed PowerPoint game that combines fun with learning. Aimed at children aged 5 to 10, this game is the perfect tool to spark interest in the diverse world of vegetables while educating them about the benefits of healthy eating.

Educational Benefits:

• Expand Vegetable Vocabulary: This game broadens children's knowledge about a wide variety of vegetables, increasing their nutritional vocabulary and enhancing their awareness of healthy foods.

• Promote Healthy Eating Habits: By familiarizing children with different vegetables, this game encourages them to explore new tastes and develop a lasting appreciation for wholesome food choices.

• Enhance Cognitive Skills: Engage your child’s mind! Our matching challenges are crafted to improve memory, sharpen attention to detail, and foster cognitive flexibility—all through exciting and interactive gameplay.

• Interactive and Engaging Design: With its vivid graphics and captivating challenges, the game ensures that learning about vegetables is not just educational but also thoroughly enjoyable. Due to the nature of the game, this will also promote Self Directed Learning.

Ideal for:

• Parents: Perfect for those looking to integrate a diverse array of vegetables into their child’s daily diet and educational activities, making learning delightful and fun.

• Educators: A superb addition to any classroom focusing on nutrition, health, or science, providing a fun and engaging way to complement academic lessons.

• Homeschooling: An excellent resource for homeschool environments, blending education with playful interaction to enhance learning experiences.

• Childcare Facilities: Enhance your educational programming with a game that not only entertains but also promotes healthy lifestyle choices among children.

Step into our garden with the "Vegetables Matching Game" and watch as it nurtures a flourishing interest in vegetables among young learners. It's more than just a game—it's a foundation for healthy, informed eating habits that last a lifetime!

What’s included:

- 1 powerpoint match game

Format:
- ppt show (you’ll just have to double click on the file to play the game)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1.) This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.

2.) Once payment is complete, you get lifetime access to the product.

3.) For PERSONAL USE ONLY.

4.) Quality of the actual game effects will be dependent on the quality and available storage space of the devices used.

Delivery:

Due to the downloadable nature of this product, all sales are final.

There will be no refunds and no returns.

However, I always want to make sure that my customers are happy with the quality of my products. Therefore, if you have any feedback or suggestions on how I can improve my creations, please feel free to reach me at support@homelearnershub.com.

Discover Joy with "Animated PowerPoint Games For Kids: Fruits Matching Game”!

Welcome your little ones to the colorful and nutritious world of fruits with our "Fruits Matching Game", a creatively crafted PowerPoint game that blends entertainment with learning. Tailored for kids aged 5 to 8, this game serves as an excellent introduction to the variety and importance of fruits, igniting a passion for healthy eating through play.

Educational Benefits:

Expand Fruit Knowledge: Elevate your child's understanding of different fruits, broadening their vocabulary related to nutrition and heightening their awareness of beneficial dietary choices.

Encourage Healthy Eating: This game introduces children to an array of fruits, encouraging them to experiment with new flavors and fostering a lifelong appreciation for nutritious eating.

Boost Cognitive Development: Challenge your child’s intellect with our matching games designed to enhance memory, sharpen focus, and promote cognitive agility—all within a fun and engaging digital environment.

Interactive and Vibrant Design: Featuring bright, appealing graphics and captivating gameplay, this game ensures that learning about fruits is not only educational but also extremely fun. It’s designed to encourage self-directed learning, allowing kids to explore at their own pace.

Dive into our fruity adventure with the "Fruits Matching Game" and watch as it cultivates a robust interest in fruits among young learners. It’s more than just a game—it’s the groundwork for a lifetime of healthy, informed food choices!

What’s included:

- 1 powerpoint match game

Format:
- ppt show (you’ll just have to double click on the file to play the game)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1.) This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.

2.) Once payment is complete, you get lifetime access to the product.

3.) For PERSONAL USE ONLY.

4.) Quality of the actual game effects will be dependent on the quality and available storage space of the devices used.

Delivery:

Due to the downloadable nature of this product, all sales are final.

There will be no refunds and no returns.

However, I always want to make sure that my customers are happy with the quality of my products. Therefore, if you have any feedback or suggestions on how I can improve my creations, please feel free to reach me at support@homelearnershub.com.

Ignite a Passion for Animals with Our Engaging Animals Matching PowerPoint Game

Set off on a thrilling journey with the "Animals Matching Game", a captivating PowerPoint game that transforms the wonders of the animal kingdom into a dynamic educational experience for children. This game skillfully merges the thrill of exploration with the delight of learning, enabling kids to match animals to their names, sounds, and habitats in an interactive safari-like adventure.

Benefits for Children:

Enhances Knowledge of Wildlife: Kids will explore a diverse range of animals, from well-known species to the more exotic, deepening their appreciation of our planet’s biodiversity.

Boosts Memory and Recognition Abilities: The game’s animal matching challenges are designed to hone memory, fine-tune attention to detail, and enhance pattern recognition skills.

Stimulates Curiosity about the Natural World: Unveiling unique animal traits and behaviors, this game nurtures a child’s curiosity and fascination with nature.

Interactive Educational Fun: Featuring vibrant animations and compelling gameplay, children stay actively involved, turning each challenge into a chance for discovery and learning.

Embark on the "Animals Matching Game" and watch as young explorers begin their own virtual safari, uncovering the secrets of the animal kingdom with each successful match.

What’s included:

- 1 powerpoint match game

Format:
- ppt show (you’ll just have to double click on the file to play the game)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1.) This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.

2.) Once payment is complete, you get lifetime access to the product.

3.) For PERSONAL USE ONLY.

4.) Quality of the actual game effects will be dependent on the quality and available storage space of the devices used.

Delivery:

Due to the downloadable nature of this product, all sales are final.

There will be no refunds and no returns.

However, I always want to make sure that my customers are happy with the quality of my products. Therefore, if you have any feedback or suggestions on how I can improve my creations, please feel free to reach me at support@homelearnershub.com.