3rd Grade Holidays/Seasonal Lesson

This student-tested activity brings the rich culture of Mexico to life in your classroom. This engaging activity was designed specifically for the Hispanic Heritage Month project. Immerse your students in the beauty and tradition of Oaxacan pottery as they explore the fascinating world of art.

This comprehensive teacher's guide provides everything you need to seamlessly integrate this Hispanic Heritage Month art project into your lesson plans.

The accompanying worksheet reinforces key concepts and allows students to showcase their understanding of Hispanic art through a variety of engaging exercises. Whether they're learning about different pottery techniques or exploring the symbolism behind traditional designs, this worksheet is sure to spark meaningful discussions and creative expression.

This resource includes:

- Teacher’s guide for 2 - 45-minute lesson - From background information on the history and significance of Oaxacan pottery to step-by-step instructions for creating stunning pottery-inspired artwork, you'll have all the tools you need to captivate your students' imaginations.

- 1 worksheet

- 1 poster

Skills Developed in this lesson:

- Learn art vocabulary and Mexican culture.

- Fine motor skills.

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Looking for a way to make Valentine's Day in the classroom unforgettable? Our Valentine's Day Bundle is jam-packed with interactive worksheets, captivating Google Slides presentations, and FREE BONUS activities guaranteed to boost learning and fun!

Why Choose Our Valentine's Day Bundle for Students?

• Supercharge Learning & Creativity: This bundle blends interactive worksheets that encourage pen-to-paper learning with dynamic Google Slides presentations that keep students engaged. It caters to various learning styles and keeps your classroom active and abuzz!
• Celebrate Love & Friendship: Valentine's Day is a perfect opportunity to celebrate love and friendship in a wholesome way. Our bundle's activities are designed to foster a sense of community and positive social interaction.
• SEL Activities Included: The Fun Valentine's Day Worksheets with SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) activities promote emotional intelligence and social awareness – valuable skills for young learners.
• Wide Range of Activities: This bundle offers something for everyone! From fun game shows like "Valentine's Day: The Price is Right Edition" to engaging worksheets that focus on CVC words and Valentine's Day themed letter recognition, this bundle keeps students entertained and learning.
• Bonus Activities Included: Who doesn't love free stuff? This bundle comes with a FREE Valentine's Day Vowels and Consonant Sorting activity and a sweet Valentine's Day Letter template – perfect for adding a personal touch to the festivities!

Target Age Group: This bundle is ideally suited for students in elementary grades. However, it can be easily adapted to fit the needs of a wider range of learners.

Looking for a creative and educational way to celebrate Valentine's Day with your students? Look no further than our Valentine's Day Bundle!

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These printable worksheets are reading passages related to the four seasons, accompanied by comprehension questions covering WH questions and main ideas. Perfect for 2nd to 4th-grade students, these worksheets can be utilized in various ways such as small group activities, homework assignments, independent work, or even as a choice for students during reading time.

You will receive 40 reading passages with comprehension questions on each page. For each season you will download 5 non-fiction texts and 5 fiction texts.

Benefits:

• Engaging seasonal content

• Enhances reading comprehension skills

• Versatile use in different classroom settings

Instructions/Tips for Implementation

Integrate these worksheets into your lesson plans as seasonal activities, reading assignments, or as part of your literacy centers. Provide students with opportunities to work individually or collaboratively to complete the reading passages and questions.

My 3rd- 5th grade Sp. Ed students LOVE these worksheets. They enjoy reading about the interesting topics and we always have a lively discussion as a result. I use these during small group time. For my students I read the passages aloud to them and have them answer the questions independently.

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Veteran’s Day Bundle

This three packet activity bundle has more than 50+ handouts to help students define, understand, and discuss the importance of Veteran’s Day.

Packet 1: Veteran’s Day Thank You Cards (English and Spanish)

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Pages: 23

Instill gratitude for our Armed Services with these 20 Veteran's Day Thank You Cards. Write a note of thanks, color images, fold, and give to make a veteran smile!

Includes a mix of English and Spanish gratitude phrases, black and white images to color, and one blank card for students to create their own Veteran's Day message. Highlights each branch of the Armed Services: Army, Marines, and Navy. Includes female and male armed services members.

Use as across curriculum government/history/social studies and ELA lesson, to practice fact-based letter/note writing skills, develop social skills, learn more about U.S. history, practice vocabulary, and meet local veterans in your community. Contact your local Veteran's of Foreign Wars (VFW) for a list of veterans in your area.

Packet 2: 30 Veteran’s Day Activities

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Pages: 32

30 activities to celebrate Veteran's Day! Coloring, lists, poems, writings, and more...for using critical thinking skills to learn about a national holiday.

Includes:

Democracy is...
Freedom is...
Liberty means...
The eagle is representative of...
Veteran's Day Speech
Map for listing no. of veterans/naming veterans
10 Ways to Thank a Veteran
Make your own dog-tags
Many faces of soldiers
Many roles of soldiers
What Veteran's Day means to me...
Thank you to a Veteran
My Message to a Veteran
Decorate the tombstone of a fallen soldier
Veteran Acrostic Poem
A Veteran's Poem
My favorite branch of armed services
My Pledge for Peace
Veteran's Day Maze
Veteran's Day Word Search
Women's roles in the Armed Services
How many words can you make from "veteran"
What will you do on Veteran's Day?
From a soldier's point of view: What Veteran's Day means...
The War Wall--fill in to make and display your own war wall

30 activities to help students acknowledge, appreciate, celebrate, and honor veterans and what the special day means.

Packet 3: Get Fit Action Story: A Veteran’s Day Celebration

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Pages: 15

What is Veterans Day? When does it fall each year? What kinds of celebrations honor our veterans? Students get an introduction and definition of Veterans Day, plus why it is different than Memorial Day. Then, get ready to join the parade! Play ball, watch fireworks, and thank a veteran for serving!

Get Fit Action Stories combine reading, sight words, listening, speaking, directions, and physical education into one assignment. It's a fun, physical learning adventure!

Action Words included:
1. salute
2. clap
3. Miss America wave
4. struts
5. moves a scepter up and down
6. twirl
7. toss
8. catch
9. plays a violin
10. toots a horn
11. beats a drum
12. pedal
13. flip hamburgers
14. toss salads
15. swing bats
16. hit homeruns
17. yells, “Ewwwww” then “Awwwww”
18. “Thank you!”
19. salute
20. “Happy Veterans Day!”

This three packet activity bundle with over 50+ handouts will encourage discussions, increase understanding, and reinforce meaning of Veteran’s Day.

Printable Back to school activities are perfect for keeping kids engaged and entertained during Back to school . These activities include a variety of fun and educational options that can be easily printed and completed at home or on the go.

this bundle contains, Coloring Pages, mazes, Word search , Sudoku , mandala coloring sheets .

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• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

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• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

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• You can print as many copies as you want.

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Embrace winter with "My Winter Counseling Activity Book." This is the ultimate resource packed with a variety of engaging, fun, and educational activities tailored for school counselors and educators.

Designed to address key Social Emotional Learning (SEL) topics, this book is filled with creative tools such as coloring pages, puzzles, crafts, and much more to support the emotional and mental development of young children. Ideal for use in classrooms, counseling sessions, or at home, this activity book helps facilitate meaningful discussions and learning experiences about emotions and coping skills in a child-friendly format.

KEY FEATURES:

• Extensive Variety of Activities: From color by numbers to mazes and matching activities, this book offers a wide range of fun and counseling worksheets.
• Targeted SEL Content: Each activity is crafted to address essential SEL topics, helping children develop crucial emotional and social skills.
• High-Quality, Low-Prep Materials: Ready-to-use pages make it easy for educators and counselors to implement activities with minimal preparation.
• Engaging for Young Learners: Designed with vibrant illustrations and interactive content to keep children engaged and interested.

THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:

• Coloring Pages: Themed around winter, these pages provide a calm activity that encourages creativity and self-expression.
• Find-A-Words & Mazes: Engaging puzzles that help improve vocabulary and problem-solving skills.
• Color by Numbers/Feelings: A creative way to explore emotions and mindfulness through coloring.
• Check-In Posters: Tools to assist children in articulating their feelings and setting the tone for their day.
• Coping Skills Pages: Explore strategies for managing emotions and stress.
• Feelings Cards: Visual aids that help children identify and communicate their emotions effectively.
• Matching Activities: Interactive games that support cognitive development and memory skills.
• Low-Prep Crafts: Simple crafts that allow children to express themselves creatively while learning valuable skills.

And much more…

"My Winter Counseling Activity Book" is a must-have resource for any school counselor, educator, or parent seeking to enrich a child's social and emotional learning this winter. Packed with a delightful mix of activities, this book is perfect for facilitating development in a playful and engaging way. Equip your toolkit with this diverse and comprehensive activity book to bring joy and learning to your educational or therapeutic settings.

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Celebrate the 50th Day of School with this would you rather game! Perfect as a no-prep 50th day party game, brain break, icebreaker, morning meeting activity, discussion starters, writing prompts or debate prompts. This is great for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade students.

This creative Winter Concert Decorations: Art Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this PDF file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on the big screen. For this assignment, I asked students to get with a partner or into small groups and brainstorm subject matter, orientation, and theme of the overall composition. Plus, decide which group member(s) will be in charge of what to draw and where to draw it. Students will need to sketch out ideas first inside a sketchbook, transfer the sketches to Final Copy Paper, outline the large image, and start coloring in everything with crayon. Sadly, most other art materials will ruin the roll paper. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy!

You need this Ultimate Christmas Bundle to get through the chaos of the month of December. It's chockful of games, writing & drawing activities, including Would You Rather that will keep elementary and middle school students busy when they finish their work! Perfect for use throughout the month of December to help celebrate the Christmas holiday!

I made these creative activities because I needed independent work that I could use in my classroom that I knew students would actually LIKE doing!

What's Included:

December Early Finishers Packet This monthly packet features like puzzles, games, and SEL-centered drawing and coloring activities. They'll love the fun games they can play with a partner quietly, or anything from the selection of 20 fun pages of independent, challenging puzzles and creative activities this packet offers!

Would You Rather Christmas Edition This class game is a fun way to get your students excited to be in school, create relationships, and get students talking and connected! Questions are fall-themed and related to Christmas. All you need to do is project the questions on the board to get the fun started, no other prep is needed!

Found Your iPhone - Santa/Grinch Edition With this character cell phone analysis activity, students will make inferences using what they know about either Santa or the Grinch. The engaging design of this cell phone activity will ask students to "snoop" through a phone they found, peep their text messages, playlists and even check their most recent location history. This literary analysis activity can be used during the holidays for a fun activity that's in keeping with the holiday spirit.

Christmas Greeting Cards Help your students celebrate Christmas by being creative as well as mindful with these cards they can color! Perfect for teens and secondary students who may not have the time or patience to make a card. Choose from 5 design options for the cover of the card. Cards print double-sided. This card is cute and a fun way for students to share the Christmas spirit.

Letter to Santa Help your students celebrate Christmas by writing a letter to Santa! Choose from 2 different design options - black and white and color. These letters are a fun way for students to express their creativity this Christmas.

Christmas Coloring Pages Help your students celebrate Christmas by being creative as well as mindful with these coloring pages! Choose from 3 different design options. These pages are a cute and fun way for students to express their creativity this Christmas.

Gingerbread Reading Comprehension You may be in full swing with your holiday or Christmas celebrations, but do your students need practice to identify the elements of a story? This Gingerbread-themed worksheet with an original reading passage titled, "Gingerbread Adventure is designed to give your students an opportunity to practice identifying story elements, sequencing, and reading comprehension.

Secret Santa Questionnaire and Tracker These student gift questionnaires and trackers will make it a smooth process! Students will list three wishes on the form and write their names. Collect the slips, fold and have students select their Secret Santa. Use the handy tracker to match up the student they are gifting so there is no confusion. These print-and-go forms are a fun and easy way for students to participate in a gift exchange this Christmas without the stress!

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Arthur's Thanksgiving is a great book to read for students to learn about Thanksgiving and the traditions that can be followed with this holiday, students will also learn how plays are set up, how to work together with peers, and how to solve problems. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur's Thanksgiving. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.

This is a math mystery that is specifically aligned to the 3rd grade Engage NY and Eureka math module 4 on area. This resource would also be a great for review of area for 4th grade students prior to the state test. This resource includes a scenario, a suspect list, 5 clues that students will solve to find the culprit and answers keys to all pages. Area concepts practiced in this are: determining multiplying length x width, determining area using tiling, finding the missing side length, find area of irregular shapes by decomposing rectangles and area word problems.

This resource would be great to use as a review before the end of module assessment, before state tests, as a math lesson to leave for a substitute teacher, uses individual clues as daily center work over the course of a week, etc.

My students absolutely love doing these! They especially love predicting who the culprit is prior to beginning the clues to see if they could guess it correctly!

This is a complete lesson plan based on the YouTube video 'The First Thanksgiving Story for Kids' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodJKjJ_VqY&t=15s) by LeFive Kids Playground. Learn all about the first Thanksgiving in this fun and educational animated video for kids! Join the Pilgrims on their exciting journey across the ocean on the Mayflower, and discover how they met the Native Americans and celebrated the very first Thanksgiving feast.

The lesson is designed for Grades 3 and 4, and it should last approximately 60 minutes. There many activities included, and their answers are provided at the end.

This video is perfect for teaching young children about the history of Thanksgiving in a way that is engaging and easy to understand. They will learn:

• Why the Pilgrims left England
• The Mayflower's wild voyage across the ocean
• The challenges of surviving in a new land
• The friendship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans
• The first Thanksgiving feast and its traditions
• Plus, we'll have lots of fun along the way with silly characters, catchy songs, and amazing animation!

Get ready for your upcoming visit to the pumpkin patch with this field trip unit! Includes reading passages and fun activities for before and after the field trip, as well as a trip reflection activity that can be used for any field trip.

Includes:

• Parent/Teacher information sheet that gives a quick run down of all the pumpkin patch information included in the unit

Pre-Trip Activities

• Pumpkin Patch reading passage
• Pumpkin Life Cycle activity in full color and black & white
• History of Pumpkin reading passage
• Three Sisters reading passage
• Three Sisters writing and drawing activity for younger students
• Three Sisters writing and drawing activity for older students
• Pumpkin Baking activities - comes with instructions, plus 4 recipes to chose from (these could also be done post-trip)

Post-Trip Activities

• Field Trip Log - for homeschoolers to track the year's field trips
• Field Trip Reflection - comes in two difficulty levels
• Home Again reading passage
• Roasted Pumpkin Seeds baking instructions
• Jack o' Lantern drawing activity
• Inside the Pumpkin drawing activity
• Inside the Pumpkin labeling worksheet
• Additional resources sheet

The Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Unit is part of my Field Trip Unit Series. The series was created with homeschoolers in mind, but can be adapted to be used in a classroom as well. Field trips are a great way to supplement learning, but often homeschoolers don’t get any background information on the location of their field trip and want to enrich their experience by expanding the learning at home before and after the trip. These units help give information and fun activities before and after the field trip.

These units are available in PreK/Kinder, Elementary, and Middle & High School levels. All Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Units follow the same outline and the parent/teacher info sheet is the same for all three so that if you have children of several ages, you can seamlessly teach them together. Homeschooling parents and teachers taking multiple grades on the trip can easily combine different units. Check out all of the levels below, as well as a money saving bundle.

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Unit - PreK Preschool and Kindergarten

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Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Unit - Middle & High School

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This product includes both of my popular Christmas Elapsed Time problems using the number line.

PowerPoint:

Have your students been working with telling time on a number line? This was a pretty tough skill for my students to master, and I still like to review this concept frequently to help keep the skill fresh.

In this product, you'll find 10 Christmas themed problems focusing on telling time on a number line.

All problems include the steps needed to solve and the answer!

Students will practice:

• plotting times on a number line
• finding start times
• finding end times
• finding how many minutes an activity lasted

Worksheets:

Elapsed time is a skill that our students need a lot of practice with!

These worksheets are just the activity you need. They'll bring the fun of Christmas into your room while asking students to work through this challenging skill.

These worksheets have 2 problems per page, with a total of 18 problems. All problems have an included number line. Answer key included!

This can be used to challenge high second graders as well as reinforce struggling older students.

Need more practice? Check out my Elapsed Time within 2 hours on a Number Line! Winter edition!

This handy resources gives you 40 journals prompts that are a great way to begin the week. Give these to your students while you get caught up on all the items that pop up after a weekend.

Prompts generally include a writing piece and a drawing.

Topics Include:

Summer Memories

Celebrating 100!

First Day of School

My Prediction

All About Me

Taking Care of My Teeth

My Goals

On a Rainy Day

Our Classroom

My Kite for a Windy Day

New Friend Interview

My Favorite School Activities

Autumn Leaves

My Wish on a Four-Leaf Clover

Be Thankful

Eating Healthy Foods

My Jack-o-Lantern

Signs of Spring

My Halloween Costume

Taking Care of The Earth

Harvest Time

All About Butterflies

Draw and Write About A Turkey

My Favorite Bug

My Favorite Winter Activities

My Flower Journal

Bundle Up

Taking Care of Animals

How I Celebrate

In Warm Weather

My New Year’s Hope

Someone I Admire

Baby It’s Cold Outside

What I’ve Learned

Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream

Classmate Award

Happy Valentine’s Day

Favorite Summertime Activities

How I Draw a Snowman

Swim, Swim, Swim

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What is Included:

Lesson Plan Pages

Discussion Questions (use oral discussion questions or weekly short answer discussion questions and a final discussion question test (short answer and multiple-choice questions).

Literature Worksheets (Character study, Two Sets of Prediction Worksheets, and Plot Diagram Worksheet)

Vocabulary Work (General Vocabulary, Focused Vocabulary, Vocabulary Dictionary, Crossword, Word Search, Vocabulary in Context, and Vocabulary Quiz)

Final Project (Have students design a concert. They must have a theme, create a stage, costumes, and decorations, and select relevant acts with rubric)March Madness

BONUS: Christmas Song Battle (much like the march madness basketball tournament, you will start with your sweet 16 of either classic or modern Christmas songs, and then students will vote and battle it out until there is a winner).

Columbus Day Adapted Unit

This Columbus Day Special Education Unit Activities and Lesson Plan for Columbus Day is the perfect activity bundle for special education. An easy-to-follow lesson plan is included so that all you have to do is print, and your week-long Columbus Day activities are ready to go! This activity bundle includes a book, comprehension, math, vocabulary, cutting, tracing, coloring, and more! Be sure to check out other units available.

Included Columbus Day Activities:

Math

Search and Find Columbus Day (Levels 1 and 2)

Count Columbus Day Items (Levels 1 and 2)

Columbus Day Patterns (Levels 1 and 2)

Visual Addition (Levels 1 and 2)

Visual Subtraction (Levels 1 and 2)

Columbus Day Money (Level 1 and 2)

Reading

Columbus Day Book (adapted version included)

Vocabulary Cards (Levels 1 and 2)

Vocabulary Tracing

Letter Tracing

Columbus Day and other Holiday Sort (Levels 1 and 2)

Vocabulary Match (Levels 1 and 2)

Book Comprehension (Levels 1 and 2)

Initial Letter Sound (Level 1 and 2)

Fine Motor

Columbus Day Color Match(Levels 1 and 2)

Line Tracing

Columbus Day Cutting Practice

Columbus Day Coloring Pages (3)

Find the Different Item (Levels 1 and 2)

This product is part of YEAR LONG HOLIDAY UNIT BUNDLE.

Holidays Included:

1. Back to School
2. Veteran's Day
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
6. Valentine's Day
7. St. Patrick's Day
8. Groundhog Day
9. Summer
10. Columbus Day

What's in a bundle?

• Unit Lesson Plans
• Holiday Book
• Adapted Holiday Book
• Vocabulary Words
• Comprehension Practice
• Tracing
• Matching
• Counting
• Cutting
• Coloring

Each Unit includes a few of the following:

• Patterns
• Adding
• Subtracting
• Money
• Graphing
• More or Less Than
• Shapes

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Delight your 3rd-grade students with "The Spooky Show," a fun Halloween-themed reading passage designed to strengthen their reading skills while practicing common consonant blends! In this charming story, Chase and his sister Shelly attend a spooky show at the town wharf. They’re thrilled to see flying bats and spooky ghosts, but the unexpected appearance of a playful cat brings laughter and fun. This engaging passage will capture students’ imaginations while reinforcing their understanding of blends like ch, sh, th, wh, bl, pl, fl, and sl.

What’s Included:

• Fiction Reading Passage: A high-interest, 300-word story perfect for 2nd graders, featuring beginning blends such as ch, sh, th, wh, bl, pl, fl, and sl.
• 5 Multiple-Choice Questions: These questions check for understanding and encourage higher-level thinking, focusing on key story elements like plot, character emotions, and story details.
• 2 Discussion Questions: Thought-provoking, open-ended questions that foster classroom discussion and deeper comprehension of the story.
• Blend Practice: The passage includes multiple examples of words with common consonant blends, helping students recognize and reinforce these patterns in a meaningful context.

Skills Covered:

• Reading Comprehension: Questions target understanding of key story details, character responses, and cause-and-effect relationships.
• Phonics: Focus on consonant blends ch, sh, th, wh, bl, pl, fl, and sl to build fluency and word recognition.
• Critical Thinking: Higher-level questions and discussion prompts encourage students to think beyond the text and relate to characters' actions and emotions.
• Story Elements: Practice identifying characters, setting, and plot development.
• Vocabulary: Introduces descriptive, seasonal vocabulary within the context of a fun, relatable story.

Possible Uses in the Classroom:

• Guided Reading: Use the story and questions in small groups for focused comprehension and phonics practice.
• Phonics Review: A great resource for reinforcing blends in context, making phonics practice more engaging.
• Independent Reading Practice: Suitable as a Halloween-themed assignment for individual reading time.
• Classroom Discussion: The included discussion questions can prompt a lively group conversation about the story and its fun Halloween setting.
• Homework or Early Finisher Activity: Perfect as a quick reading assignment that balances comprehension and phonics.

This worksheet makes phonics practice fun and engaging for your students, all while strengthening reading comprehension! It’s ideal for October and will keep your students excited and focused on learning, just in time for Halloween.

This bundle is perfect for the beginning of the school year! Use this bundle for your first grade, second grade, and third grade students during the first week of school. In this bundle you'll find 8 printable icebreaker activities, 9 math activities with editable templates and 9 coloring pages! Use for getting to know you activities, whole group lessons, icebreakers, morning meeting activities, writing centers, math centers, bulletin board displays and more!

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What's Included

• 9 back to school math activities + editable versions for most activities
• 8 back to school icebreaker activities
• 9 welcome back to school coloring pages

Back to School Activities for 1st-3rd Grade

• 3 Friendship Puzzles: Students work with a friend to color the puzzle pieces. Then they work with their friend to build the puzzle by gluing the pieces to the grid page.
• 3 My Friends Bingo: In each box is a description. After you read the description, students find a friend who fits the description and then they let them write their name in the box on the line. Have students complete all the boxes like a blackout in Bingo or just 3 in a row.
• 3 Student Surveys:
  - Option 1: Choose 1 out of the 3 surveys for students to complete.
  - Option 2: Let students choose 1 out of the 3 surveys to complete. - Option 3: Students can fill out all 3 of the surveys.
• My Class Friends Book: Students will interview a friend with the interview page. Collect and turn into a class book using either the color or black and white cover page. (color and black & white options included for the cover page!)
• My Backpack: Students write their names on the line and decorate their backpacks with pictures of all their favorite things to represent them. Have students share their backpacks in small groups or with a partner.
• 3 Crowns & Extenders: Print on cardstock and allow your students to color the crown and extender pieces. Glue the extender pieces (or sentence strips if you have them) on the crown and wrap them around students' heads. Staple to keep in place. (color and black & white options included!)
• Friendship Bracelets:
  Print and cut the color or black and white friendship bracelets. Students can write the name of the friend they interviewed on the line and color. Wrap around students' wrists and glue in place. They can wear them home to share with parents. (color and black & white options included!)
• Bus Craft & Writing: Students color and cut out the school bus. Then they respond to the writing prompt on the following page and cut out the response. Glue both to a separate page and use for a hallway display if desired.

Math to School Activities for 1st-3rd Grade

• Editable Teacher Slideshow: Edit the templates in Google Slides and share them with your students so they can get to know their new teacher using numbers.
• Figure Me Out Math: Students will introduce themselves to the class by creating math equations that give clues about themselves. Includes an editable template!
• My Grade in Numbers: Students will examine the numbers in their lives while expressing themselves creatively through personal illustrations and coloring. Includes an editable template!
• Math Goal Setting: Students set a goal for math and make a 3 action step plan to reach their goal for the school year.
• Math Survey: Students color in an emoji face that best represents their feelings about each math topic. Includes an editable template!
• Math Bingo: In each box is a description. After you read the description, students find a friend who fits the description and let them write their name in the box on the line. Includes an editable template!
• Classroom Math: Students will take a tour around the classroom. They will locate the items, and write the number of each that they can find. Includes an editable template!
• Math Tool Exploration: Students will take notes as you introduce different classroom math tools. They should write the name of the math tool, draw a picture, and answer the question in each box.
• Mathematicians: Students fill out what mathematicians can do and use. Then they draw a picture of themselves as mathematicians.

9 Welcome Back Coloring Pages

• Preschool page
• Kindergarten page
• 1st grade page
• 2nd grade page
• 3rd grade page
• 4th grade page
• 5th grade page
• 6th grade page
• Welcome back to school page

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

More Back to School Resources:

100's Chart Mystery Picture

Gift Tags

Birthday Crowns, Certificates & Pencil Toppers

Back to School Roll & Read Games:

CVC, Blends & Digraphs

CVCe Long Vowels

Long Vowel Teams

R Controlled Vowels

Back to School Roll & Race Math Games:

Addition & Subtraction Within 10

Addition & Subtraction Within 20