Back to School Activities | First Week of School Activities

Description

Make the first week of school fun, engaging, and memorable with this collection of 10 Back to School Activities! This bundle brings together hands-on math, literacy, crafts, fine motor practice, classroom community activities, and beginning-of-the-year keepsakes. These back to school activities give you meaningful ways to help students learn important skills while getting comfortable in their new classroom.

These back to school activities include practice with names, numbers, graphing, school vocabulary, feelings, classroom routines, and more, giving you a variety of meaningful activities to use throughout the first days and weeks of school.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• First Week of School Memory Book + Craft — Create a special beginning-of-the-year keepsake with 20 memory book page options, a school bus cover craft, name options, and a student photo feature.
• Classroom Number Hunt — Get students moving around the classroom as they search for numbers 1–8 and record what they find.
• Pencil Name Craft — Students personalize a pencil craft with their name for a fun first-week name activity and classroom display.
• First Day + First Week of School Hats — Students color, cut, assemble, and wear their own school hats with multiple grade/setting options.
• First Letter Name Class Book — Students decorate the first letter of their name, practice writing their name, and contribute a personalized page to a class book.
• First Day of School Feelings Graph — Combine a beginning-of-the-year feelings check-in with graphing and data analysis.
• Back to School Mini Reader — Build school vocabulary and beginning reading confidence with 10 school vocabulary words and picture support.
• One Dot Glue Club — Introduce proper glue bottle control as students practice using one small dot of glue at a time.
• Class Names Graph — Students count the letters in their names, create a whole-class graph, and compare the data.
• Welcome Banner — Add a special back-to-school display to welcome students into the classroom. *Available exclusively in this bundle!

Those are the same ten components currently identified in your TPT bundle.

PERFECT FOR

• Back to school
• First day of school
• First week of school
• Beginning-of-the-year activities
• Classroom community building
• Pre-K
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Math and literacy practice
• Name activities
• Classroom routines

WHY TEACHERS WILL LOVE IT

• 10 different activities in one collection
• Mix of math, literacy, crafts, fine motor skills, and classroom community
• Hands-on activities designed for the beginning of the year
• Activities help students learn classmates’ names and become familiar with their classroom
• Includes both individual student activities and whole-class activities
• Provides a variety of options to use across the first several days of school
• Includes a Welcome Banner as part of the complete bundle
• Saves money compared with purchasing the paid activities separately

Start the school year with back to school activities that help students learn, create, move, and build a classroom community from the very beginning!