Less than $5 8th Grade The New Year Activities

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way for your child to set goals for the new year?

Start your year off right with New Year Goals Templates This digital product includes five unique templates that will help your child:

Set SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound)

Track their progress throughout the year

Think about their accomplishments at the end of the year

• Here's what you'll get: 5 unique templates, including:

Dream Jar Template: Write down your hopes and dreams for the future and watch them come true!

Annual Resolution Template: This template helps your child brainstorm and write down their big goals for the year.

Monthly Goal Templates: Four additional templates, one for each quarter, allow your child to break down their annual goals into smaller, achievable milestones.

Year Review Template: At the end of the year, your child can use this template to reflect on their accomplishments, celebrate their successes, and identify areas for improvement.

• “New Year Launch Board” is perfect for:

Parents are looking for a fun and educational way to introduce goal setting to their children.

Teachers seek engaging activities to help their students set and achieve academic and personal goals.

Children who are eager to make the most of the new year and excited to reach their full potential.

• Start your New Year's adventure today and watch your child thrive!

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Writing activities for the New Year 2024 with resolutions, goals, and predictions

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Looking for a** Lunar New Year**-themed, engaging and informative reading comprehension activity? This scavenger hunt is designed to help students practice skim reading, looking for context clues, and learn some useful vocabulary.

It’s perfect for EFL / ESL students at the B1/B2 level and can also be used for native English classes at grade levels 5 - 7. With low prep, just print and hang, it contains 10 reading passages about Chinese New Year traditions.

The scavenger hunt is designed so that students have to revisit and reread the reading passages multiple times when looking for code words. The answer to each question is located on a different reading passage card. Once students have answered all the questions, they unscramble the letters to reveal the final answer - the name of the murderer.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

♥ 10 reading passages

♥ answer sheets

♥ mission page

♥ directions

♥ teacher answer key

♥ conclusion

Options for use:

☻Independent Work

☻Pair Work

☻Sub plan

☻Stations

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Empower Your Students for a Brighter Year with Our SEL New Year Check-In!

Kickstart the New year with a powerful self-reflection journey. Our interactive activity combines gratitude journaling, goal setting, personalized playlist creation, and self-care tips. Students will gain valuable insights, boost their motivation, and cultivate positive mindsets. Watch them flourish as they embrace the new year with renewed focus and optimism.

Benefits for Students:

• Enhanced Self-Awareness: Deepen understanding of personal strengths, weaknesses, and aspirations.
• Improved Goal Setting: Develop actionable plans to achieve both academic and personal objectives.
• Increased Motivation: Ignite passion and purpose through positive affirmations and goal visualization.
• Stress Reduction: Practice effective self-care techniques to manage stress and anxiety.
• Positive Mindset Cultivation: Foster optimism and resilience through gratitude journaling and mindfulness exercises.

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Cute Winter Coloring Pages for Toddler Girls and Boys!

Help your little ones celebrate Winter season with this big coloring pages that is perfect for little hands. Easy to color designs help to build fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

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

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys, girls, and teens

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• This item comes as a high-resolution PDF file that you can download straight after purchasing.

• You can print as many copies as you want.

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• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

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Allow your students to set their intentions for the New Year with these resolution worksheets. Students can write or draw their responses to the following questions:

-I would like to try

-I would like to improve

-I would like to work on

-This year, I hope...

Resource comes in colored/black and white versions. Includes 5 different versions for students to select from.

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Use this no-prep digital holiday game as an icebreaker, brain break, morning meeting activity or New Year's party game to help your students bring in the new year! This New Year's Emoji Pictionary Game will have your students eagerly using emojis to guess the New Year's phrases they represent. For example, a party hat that is combined with a clock emoji translates to "party time."

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What's Included:

• 10 Emoji picture guessing slides
• 10 Answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• Editable Emoji slide template so you can add your own phrases
• Directions Slide
• Editable Directions Slide

How to play:

• Present the emoji puzzle slide Encourage students to guess the New Year's phrases based on the emoji pictures given
• Consider allowing students to work independently or in groups to compete and see who can identify the most emoji phrases
• Reveal the answers by transitioning to the next slide

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New Year's Resources

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

This graphic art Happy New Year 2025 would be ideal for students that are just beginning with graphing coordinates or students that need a little extra practice. It is also a great fun activity for New Year/Spring.

The pictures have two different graphing options to easily provide differentiation in your classroom. Prep free! Differentiated! Independent!

- One picture to be graphed in first quadrant with positive whole numbers only only

- One picture to be graphed in all four quadrants with positive and negative whole numbers

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New Year's vocabulary - 30 New Year's speaking prompt cards in English

Want your students to use their NEW YEAR'S vocabulary in fun and meaningful conversations? You can use this NO PREP activity year after year as a fun way to encourage your students to speak more to each other about New Year's traditions and holiday fun. This resource is suitable for any curriculum in which English is the language spoken, and will work best for students in 6th to 12th grade.

You can use these cards after learning specific vocabulary for the New Year during the months of December and January or as a fun interactive activity on any day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way.

All cards are visually stimulating and feature a circle to punch out in the upper left corner so that you can print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and hook the cards together with a ring. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities. A pdf with only one card per page is included for easy projection when you don't want to print.

Included:

30 color speaking prompt cards
30 black and white speaking prompt cards
9 ways to use these cards
Easy to project file for whole class activity
Scoot activity instructions
Scoot student recording sheet

This resource is included in my ESL - ELL speaking, listening, writing activities and games - Growing bundle.

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LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

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Looking for fun New Year projects and activities for the first week back to school after winter break? Check out this printable New Year Brochure that is just perfect for setting goals and reflection. It is a perfect way to ease your students back into the routine of being in school.  Geared toward Upper Elementary, Middle and High School students.

The new year 2024 is the perfect time to reflect on 2023, set goals, and have some fun as students readjust to being back in school after winter break. Have students create this brochure, then let them keep it to track their goals. Purchase once, and this product can be used year after year and will be updated yearly! Pull these brochures out as students return from break. This resource requires NO PREP - simply print double-sided.

Students will get a kick out of the hidden messages included on each brochure...the message reads "NEW YEAR VIBES" when read horizontally, and when read vertically, there are 3 different versions are included:

1. "LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN"

2. "A NEW YEAR OF DREAMS"

3. "CHEERS TO A FRESH START"

You can choose to print any option but I suggest a mix of all three, that way it will be more fun when students start calling out the message as they decipher it!

Stay strong teachers...you need a resource like this to make it through the first week back from break :)

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Your students/children will enjoy this end-of-the year reflection and review/new year goals and resolutions activity/project. It will help them reflect and review their challenges, accomplishments, and highlights of 2023 as well as what goals and inspirations they want to bring into 2024.

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In this product, students will review New Year's Eve/Day vocabulary and their signs and other vocabulary that appears in the product. There are two templates in this product. The first template allows students to write their answer and draw a picture or cut and paste a picture card provided on each page of the booklet. The second template allows students to cut and paste picture a picture card provided as their answer.

On each template, students will answer 10 questions about resolutions/goals they have for the coming year. On the page after each question, will be a section of pictures that students can choose from to answer each question. Sign language is also incorporated on each of the 10 question pages that emphasize New Year's Eve and Day vocabulary words.

This product can also be laminated. The picture cards can be cut out and Velcro can be applied to each one so it can be used again. Students can use a dry erase marker to write responses if product is laminated.

Celebrate the start of the year with the short story The Clock of Second Chances. This resource combines reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and creative writing activities. Perfect for sub plans, lesson planning, guided reading and building comprehension and vocabulary skills!

What’s Included

**The Short Story:**A heartwarming tale of Leo, a young man given the chance to repair a broken friendship through the magic of a mysterious grandfather clock that rewinds time on New Year’s Eve.

**Vocabulary Awareness Activity: **A pre-reading vocabulary chart featuring key terms such as "peculiar," "reconciliation," and "sincere." Students assess their familiarity with each word, define them in their own words, and enhance their understanding of the story’s language.

**Comprehension Questions (with Answer Key): **Questions designed to encourage deep thinking and analysis, including:

• Symbolism and Theme Analysis
• Character Motivation and Growth
• Setting and Atmosphere
• Ethical Reflection and Personal Connection
• Creative Writing Prompts

**Answer Key for Teachers: **Detailed answers to all comprehension questions, facilitating discussions and streamlining grading.

Learning Objectives:

• Build and enhance vocabulary knowledge.
• Analyze characters, themes, and literary devices.
• Foster creative writing and reflective thinking.

Usage:

• Ideal for whole-class instruction, small groups, or independent reading assignments.
• Perfect for middle school ELA or upper elementary enrichment activities.
• Printable and classroom-ready for ease of use.

Start the New Year with a story that inspires, teaches, and engages!

This resource features a highly engaging, and memorable way to reflect on the year with your high school or middle school students using the lyrics to Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire!

This step-by-step two-day lesson plan encourages students to consider what defines their generation and then create their own lyrics to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire." Every year, this lesson has been a huge hit with my students especially on the last two days of school. Your students will appreciate your taking the time to allow them to step back and reflect upon their world. You will love it because no preparation is needed at all for this very memorable activity!

Product Includes:

• Step-by-step lesson plan
• Graphic organizers for assignment

Note that lyrics cannot be included with this resource as they are copyright protected. They can be found easily online.

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Make sure to check out these great resources to end your school year on the best note ever!

⭐ End of Year ELA Escape Room

⭐ End of Year ELA Escape Room - Pop Culture Edition

⭐ End of Year "Book Talk" Activity

⭐ End of Year Mad Libs

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New Year Bucket List worksheet gives upper elementary and middle school students the ability to fill in year long goals in a fun way. They brainstorm four things to eat this year, four places to visit, four people to see, and more. Also included is a coloring sheet featuring the year. The years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 are included right now and this product will updated with future years. Future years can be downloaded for free after purchase. Buy now and use year after year!

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Need an engaging, no prep after winter break activity? Your students will love this Order of Operations interactive digital escape room.

This activity is designed to work on laptops, tablets, or smartphones.

Your students will “visit” four different cities: New York, Paris, Rome and Tokyo.

In order to travel from one city to another, they will have to solve expressions using Order of Operations.

There are 40 expressions, with parentheses and no exponent.

After completing each game, they will find a link that will take them to another location.

A printable version of the questions is also included.

Since this escape room is online (interactive pages) there is very little prep; just duplicate the student answer sheet, provide the link, and off they go! There are no locks to configure or clues to hide—everything you need is online. No Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins are necessary.

If your students need to complete it on different days, they just have to save the address at the top of the page and they will start back right where they left off.

You can use it as:

★ additional materials for remediation

★ a reward or “Fun Friday” activity

★ before the busy holiday break

★ an emergency sub lesson plan

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It’s a perfect coloring Pages to practice and perfect your coloring skills. Whether you’re just beginning your creative journey, or you’re a coloring connoisseur, everyone can have fun with this exciting and varied collection of patterns. A Gorgeous Activity Sheets Coloring develops motor skills while fostering creativity and imagination.

What You will Get

• 25 lovely Coloring sheets
• PDF + PNG Format
• HIGH QUALITY
• 8.5x11

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Are you looking for an engaging reflection activity? Do you struggle to find an activity that supports social emotional learning? Do you want to facilitate discussion and interaction? Then download this New Year 2024 Reflection Activity! In this engaging no prep and editable activity, students reflect on times they persevered, their friendships, overcoming hardship, what they learned about themselves, grit, and other topics. Students will participate in small discussion groups, write about their experiences, and then take a fun walk down memory lane with engaging Top 10 lists.

This activity can be completed in 1 class with homework, expanded over 2 classes, or completed during the last 10 minutes of several classes. Other options include selecting only one set of questions on which students can reflect.

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• Instructions
• 4 different pairs of discussion/reflection/writing questions
• 6 unique Top 10 lists
• All in 4 formats: Lined and editable, unlined and editable, lined and un-editable, unlined and un-editable!
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These New Year 2025 Color by Numbers are a great way to come back to the new year while reviewing topics with your students! This activity includes order of operations with integers, exponents and square roots so it would be perfect for 8th and 9th grade but can be used for any grade level above that as a relaxing - but educational - lesson!

No calculator allowed so even less prep for you to have to worry about! You can even make this a MENTAL MATH CHALLENGE for older grades and not even give them paper!

* This product will be updated every year to reflect the new year on the coloring sheets - Just re-download to use again! *

What is included:

- 48 order of operation questions

- Three 2025 New Years phrases to color in after students get an answer

- Student recording sheets to show work

If you like these color by numbers check out my other New Years/Winter Resources:

- Algebra 1 Winter Activity Bundle (over 70 review questions)

- Algebra 2 New Year Activity Bundle (over 100 review questions)

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We have created something special which we are very proud of. This lovingly created coloring pages also makes thoughtful winter christmas .. gifts or presents for friends or family.

Suitable for toddlers, preschoolers and kids .

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 24 coloring pages ( PDF + PNG )

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

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys, girls, and teens

JUST DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND GET STARTED

• This item comes as a high-resolution PDF files that you can download straight after purchasing.

• You can print as many copies as you want.

NOTE

• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

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Ring in the new year with this NO PREP acrostic poem goal writing activity! Students can choose their favorite words and write their own acrostic poem on the printable template while spelling out the words HAPPY NEW YEAR. Enjoy as morning work, center activity, brain break, or for your New Year's Party!

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Directions:

• Print the template in color or black and white
• students write a word or phrase to describe what they hope the new year will bring for them or what goals they have for the new year
• In an acrostic poem, each line starts with a capital letter that spells out the poem's theme vertically
• Acrostic poems don't need to rhyme, but all the other poetic devices like alliteration, similes, and rhythm are often used to create an effect on the reader

What's included?

• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Color
• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Black and White

New Year's Resources

Writing Resources