Less than $5 1st Grade Back to School Activities (by rating)

Just Print & Play! Do you need fun and engaging brain breaks? This classical music activity pack features 6 listening activities to experience! The Star Rating and Emoji guides are included as a fun reference (color/b&w.) Also great for sub plans & sub tubs!

Featured Music:

Piano Concerto No. 2, Franz Liszt

Brain Break Activities:

1. Listening Sheet - There are no wrong answers! Students can note how they feel and what they imagine while listening to a selected piece of music. Choose from the musical instruments, nature scenes, colors, and more.
2. Weather & Feelings - Weather is a recurring theme in classical music. Does a musical piece remind the listener of a snowy day or a cheerful sunny afternoon? Students can select the weather symbols that come to mind. Is the music happy or sad? A set of emotional characters allows your group to pick the feelings that best relate to a piece of music.
3. Listen & Color a Carnival - Students can color their own carnival while listening to the selected music! Which carnival rides and activities would best fit a piece of music? Does the tempo feel like a roller coaster or a peaceful swing ride in the sky? Choose a tasty treat from the snack bar, then stop at the prize booth before finishing. There are no wrong answers!
4. Emoji Checkbox Listening - This listening sheet style is all about checkboxes! Students note how they feel and what they imagine while listening to a selected piece of music. Choose from the musical instruments, nature scenes, colors, and more! Time, nature, settings, instruments, and colors are also listed. Students color in the emojis that best describe their listening experience in the emoji grid. The 'Inspiration Box' can be used for inspired drawing, journaling, notes, poetry, etc.
5. 1-5 Star Rating Guide in color
6. 1-5 Star Rating Guide in black & white
7. Emoji Rating Guide in color
8. Emoji Rating Guide in black & white
9. Word Composer - compose a list of new words using letters from the composer's name. Add a timer for an extra challenge!
10. Drawing/Writing Page - a freestyle approach to listening! Students can draw a scene inspired by the music selection or use the page as a writing space. Great for bulletin boards and displays!

► We know you'll love helping students create meaningful connections to classical music, so we are happy to share these free listening activities with you today!

Mis cosas favoritas is a great activity that can be used as a back to school activity or "guess who game" to get to know your students even more.

Students can write or draw their favorite color, animal, food and activity. The teacher or one student present student's favorite things and the rest of the class will try to guess who the student is. My students loved this game!!!

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Back to School Activities Bundle in Spanish, Actividades de regreso a la escuela

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Todo sobre mi / All about me in Spanish

Bingo ¿Te gusta ...? - Bingo Game in Spanish

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Make back-to-school time exciting and engaging with this "Stand Up, Sit Down" Get to Know You game! This interactive back-to-school activity is designed to help teachers create a positive and inclusive classroom environment from day one. With over 70 slides packed with fun and thoughtful prompts, students can discover common interests, reflect on their summer experiences, and build connections with their classmates.

Why Should Teachers Buy This Resource?

1. Fosters Classroom Community: This game is an excellent tool for helping students feel comfortable and connected in a new environment. As students stand up for shared experiences, they’ll quickly find common ground with their peers, making it easier to form friendships and build a supportive classroom community.
2. Engaging Icebreaker: Perfect for the first week of school, this activity serves as an engaging icebreaker that gets students moving and interacting. It’s a great way to break the ice and reduce first-day jitters, making everyone feel more at ease.
3. Customizable and Flexible: With over 70 fully editable slides in PowerPoint, you have the flexibility to tailor the prompts to fit your unique classroom needs. Whether you want to add new questions or adjust the existing ones, this resource allows you to make it your own. Additionally, a PDF version is included for easy printing and immediate use.
4. Versatile Use: Beyond the first week, this game can be used throughout the year as a morning meeting activity, brain break, or even as a way to re-engage students after a long break. It’s a versatile resource that can adapt to various classroom situations.
5. Visually Appealing: The slides are designed with vibrant, student-friendly images that capture attention and keep students engaged. The visually appealing design helps make the game more enjoyable for younger students, ensuring they stay focused and involved.
6. Time-Saver for Teachers: This ready-to-use resource saves you valuable prep time. Simply open the PowerPoint or PDF, and you’re all set for a fun and interactive classroom activity. No need to spend hours coming up with icebreaker ideas—everything you need is right here.

Invest in this "Stand Up, Sit Down" Get to Know You game to set a positive tone for the school year, help your students build connections, and create a welcoming classroom environment. Whether you're teaching in-person or virtually, this game is a must-have for any elementary teacher looking to make the first days of school memorable and impactful.

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BACK TO SCHOOL COLOR BY NUMBER SUBTRACTION TO 10 - SAFARI ZOO ANIMALS math coloring pages are perfect for practicing SUBTRACTION TO 10. 6 pages of subtraction within 10 worksheets and color coded answer keys. see previews

Looking for a fun and effective way to improve handwriting with longer sentences? Our 26 Letters Handwriting Practice Worksheet is perfect for students learning to write. Each letter features an engaging 30-word story to help learners practice forming letters correctly while enjoying a fun narrative. Ideal for young writers who need more than just single-letter exercises, this worksheet provides a comprehensive and enjoyable approach to handwriting development. Perfect for classroom or home use, it ensures that each letter practice session is both educational and entertaining.

What is included:

- 26 pages (A-Z) fun story writing practice. each story not exceed 30 words.

- 26 letters tracing sheet (An option to use EASEL in TeachShare as digital tool)

Kick off the new school year with our Editable School Bus Name Tags! These vibrant and customizable name tags are perfect for adding a fun School Bus theme to your classroom.

Available in black & white, gray , yellow, red, dark blue, orange, sky blue ... , they come in four versatile sizes: 1 per page, 2 per page, 6 per page, and 12 per page.

Ideal for desks, lockers, bulletin boards, and more, these name tags will help keep your classroom organized and engaging.

What's Included :

• PAGE : 36 PAGES
• FILES : PPTX + PDF + PNG
• SIZE : 8.5'' x 11''

Get ready for the Activities after Christmas break| First week of school craft with a sweet start to the school year! Students will create a colorful and creative cupcake painting and decoration to symbolize the sweetness and joy of the upcoming year. Make the first week of school crafts fantastic!

Choose between two options to complete this delightful project: one will take a single lesson, while the other, a collage, will span two lessons. Additionally, students will engage in collaborative learning by sharing their ideas and providing feedback to their peers.

This resource includes:

• 28 scripted slideshow with a lesson guide
• Rubrics and objectives
• PDF file 21 pages of content
• Teacher's guide and lesson overview

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Introducing our Back to School Coloring Page! Get your child excited for the upcoming school year with this fun and engaging coloring page. Our coloring page features a variety of school-related images such as backpacks, pencils, books, and more. Designed with attention to detail and creativity, this coloring page encourages children to unleash their artistic side while also allowing them to familiarize themselves with different school supplies. Not only does coloring help develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and focus, but it also provides a great opportunity for children to express themselves and explore their imagination.

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This Back to School Bingo and Find Someone Who.. Activity Icebreaker is the perfect way to kick-start the new school year with excitement and fun.

The back-to-school bingo game is a fun-filled Bingo game that can help break the ice on the first day of school. Students will mark off school supplies on their cards to achieve five in a row and win.

Find Someone Who encourages students to venture out and interact with their peers. Students will have a blast searching for their classmates who fit various fun and unique characteristics, like "Loves math," "Plays a musical instrument," or "Has visited another country." It's a fantastic way to discover shared interests and learn interesting facts about their classmates.

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First week of school, All About Me form! To be completed at home or in class! Get to know your students better with a fun activity!

Looking for a fun way to get your young learners moving around the room during math stations? This Kindergarten September Write the Room Math Station is the perfect way to engage your students with vibrant, real-world pictures of numbers 1-10+.

Print, laminate and place the pictures around the room for students to use during math stations. Students can practice building number sense and counting while reinforcing literacy skills of letter recognition and handwriting.

Student reflection is included for students to let the teacher know if they need additional assistance. Perfect for your ELL students and young learners!

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Start the school year with this engaging and creative "All About Me" coloring activity, designed specifically for students in kindergarten and grade 1. This worksheet is perfect for the first day of school, helping students express themselves through both writing and art.

Key Features:

• Personalized for Each Grade: Includes versions for kindergarten and grade 1.
• Creative Coloring Activity: Each version of the worksheet features their grade level in large font divided into sections with wavy lines for a fun coloring activity. Students will color each section based on prompts such as their mood today, their favorite ice cream flavor, their summer vacation, their favorite color, and their best memory. This makes it a fun and interactive way for students to express themselves. [Note: this may require teacher assistance]
• Comprehensive Information: For Grade 1: Outside the number, students can fill in their name, age, birthday, favorite food, favorite subject, etc.
• Drawing Sections: For Kindergarten: Students will draw a self portrait, their favorite food, and favorite animal. For Grade 1: Students can draw their dream job and a superpower they wish they had.

Interactive Classroom Activity: Encourage students to discuss their worksheets with their classmates to get to know each other better. The teacher can also call on students to share their answers with the whole class, including the colors they used and what each color represents or talk about their drawings. This activity fosters a sense of community and helps students feel more connected.

What's Inside:

• Version for Kindergarten
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This "All About Me" activity is a perfect icebreaker for the first day of school, allowing students to share about themselves in a fun and creative way. It's ready to print, no prep needed, and ideal for building a positive classroom environment from day one.

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• ALL ABOUT ME K and Grade 1
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• HUMAN BINGO with a twist
• WORD SEARCH
• WOULD YOU RATHER
• BACK-TO-SCHOOL Taboo Presentation
• BACK-TO-SCHOOL Taboo Cards
• CLASSROOM RULES POSTERS
• MOTIVATIONAL MATH QUOTES POSTERS with bonus activity sheets

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"Great worksheet-no prep needed, easy to print, and the kids loved it! It was a great way to build a sense of community in the classroom right from the start. The drawings and colors they chose sparked some wonderful conversations."

❤️Looking for engaging, safari gifts to encourage reading, writing, and math skills? These differentiated, African animal bookmarks are the perfect way to help your students learn, practice, or review African animal vocabulary, name writing, counting, skip counting, building or completing patterns and more!

✏️Take your students on a fun scavenger hunt, while practicing literacy, math and fine motor skills! This is a great resource to pair with an Africa or animal unit! Gift these bookmarks to new students when you go back to school, at the end of the school year, during the summer, or whenever your students need an extra pick me up!

✏️Great for literacy centers, whole group, small group, partner work, enrichment activities, word walls, bulletin boards or extra practice at home!

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✅ Ways to Use:

• Laminate and use dry erase marker or manipulatives to practice patterns, syllables or counting! Use the the squares provided on the bookmark as a play mat or the bookmarks themselves as manipulatives.

• Place in a container for individualized instruction, or add to your literacy center!

• Students can write the name of the animal, their own name, or sight words in the space provided. Add to your word wall!

• Use as an extension activity for a African animal, habitat, safari, or zoo unit.

• Add a writing activity and decorate on your bulletin board.

• Write a heartfelt note in the space provided, add a bad of candy or other treat and staple to the bookmarks as a gift to students.

• Glue a popsicle stick to the back of the bookmark to use as puppets for dramatic play.

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Start your class off with these engaging icebreaker dice where students have fun doing animal actions like:

Act; stomp; eat; hop; sound; run... like a... monkey; frog; cat; cow; elephant; lion.

What is this and what should you do?

Each student rolls the action die and the animal die. Students act out whatever they get.

⭐Some fun: Back to School | Find Someone Who... BINGO | "My Favorite" Backpack

[MATH] Back to School | All About Me Math - Calculator

[SCIENCE] Back to School | All About Me Science | Science Scavenger Hunt ⭐

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This hands-on fun pack of Numbers 1-10 Craftivity is great for your math centers or math lessons. This Number sense activities resource comes with atleast three number sense pictures for all the numbers.

This Low-prep Craft is a perfect addition to your number of the week center.

Just print, color, trace, cut and paste.

Includes:

▪︎ Numbers 1-10 templates with tracing and number sense pictures.

⭐ Also includes #4 in traditional manuscript.

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Get Ready for School with Numbers!

This fun worksheet is packed with everything you need to be a counting champion! Let's practice writing numbers, counting school supplies, and coloring too

• Trace the Numbers: Follow the dotted lines to write numbers 1 through 5 nice and neat.
• Count and Color: Look at the pictures of school supplies next to each number. Count how many of each there are, then color them all in!

This worksheet is perfect for kindergarteners who are getting ready for school. It helps with fine motor skills, number recognition, counting practice, and all with a colorful school theme!

FRENCH SENTENCE STARTER QUESTIONS -Est-ce que...? Engaging and fun Back to School bulletin board for students to use as a visual cue to practice using routine French language in the K-2 classroom from Day 1. Modern Language Standard 1.0.

It is never too late to start routine language and can be a great visual for those on an IEP, those students who need a boost, and for peers to help others build their confidence with using these everyday questions.

What's in the resource?

-27 full colour images with depictions of daily routines

-sample bulletin board so you can see the set up

-Large print words for easy reading from a distance

-Est-ce que je peux chercher une gomme? (chercher un crayon, chercher mon cahier, jouer avec un ami, boire de l'eau, aller aux toilettes, etc.

-Est-ce que tu peux m'aider avec mes bottes, tailler mon crayon, m'aider avec mon manteau, etc.

-allows students to ask 'Est-ce que' questions and develop their oral communication skills independently.

Who can use this resource:

I think this resource is perfect for French Immersion teachers like myself, for Core French teachers, and for language teachers who work in other countries. I happen to be in Ontario, Canada but these questions apply to any young learner. K-3 in the Immersion setting, Gr. 4-6 in Core French (and younger), and perfect for Homeschool students as well.

Daily routine language:

Students who are able to quickly master daily routine language feel confident to then try using less common words in class with teachers and peers. The secret to great communication is when students don’t even realize they are speaking to each other in French. This resource could set them on a path to natural, fluid speaking with confidence!

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You may copy this resource in its original size of make student sized images by copying multiple pages onto the same document. Ie. two pages per sheet, or 4 pages per sheet.

What grade level:

I personally use this visual schedule with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the images with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their understanding of their daily activities and what order their learning will take place in each day. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to communicate at the Junior level.

IEP students:

We all have students with IEPs who need that extra boost to build confidence and to lessen anxieties about what is happening in class. Students quickly learn to identify each card and help each other use this language throughout the day. This has had a positive impact on all students in the class and supports the most vulnerable learners too!

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Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students use hands on materials
2. Boost confidence in French language acquisition with whole group, small group, independent work, and one-to-one instruction using the same resource
3. Students can easily identify the activities depicted in each card
4. Students grow in independence at their own pace
5. Reinforce independence and autonomy
6. Social wellness and personal autonomy in using French in the classroom
7. Scaffold and support language acquisition, oral communication, and organization skills
8. Sets can be used a variety of ways and provide a schedule for a typical school day (or homeschool day).

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Looking for some fun seasonally-themed handwriting activities for the autumn and fall? This bundle includes 40 holiday-themed worksheets for autumn and three other fall holidays. These sentence practice worksheets will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently while connecting the image with the sentence's meaning.

Students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color the seasonally-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

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✏️ NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

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   ✏ 40 seasonally-themed sentence-building worksheets

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