Back to School Activities for the Beginning of the School Year

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- This bundle includes my three favorite back to school units in one easy purchase! Kevin Henkes Author Study: Activities and Crafts to Introduce Reading StrategiesBack to SchoolHoward B. Wigglebottom: Finding the Central MessagePrice $18.80Original Price $23.50Save $4.70
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Kick off the new school year with this fun filled activity pack. It is jam packed with crafts, writing activities, and SO MUCH MORE!!! Your students will have a blast exploring the classroom, getting to know their new friends and teachers, and making an adorable backpack to hold FIVE different writing pieces and crafts. The unit ends with a day of Slime and Playdough FUN!
Included in this unit:
- First Day Jitters Activities
- Jitter Juice Graph
- This is a picture of me...
- 1st Graders/2nd Graders Can/Have/Are and Venn Diagram activity to compare 1st graders to kindergartners or 2nd graders to 1st graders
- All about me writing activity and crayon box craft
- All about my teacher writing activity
- Me/My teacher (Compare & Contrast)
- Find a friend who...
- My new friend is a “cut” above the rest writing activity and craft
- Classroom scavenger hunt
- My classroom ROCKS!
- My summer was sizzling!
- We’re stickin’ to the classroom RULES. Students write the rules and make a glue bottle craft.
- The “highlight” of my day/week was... Writing activity and craft
- My tools for a successful year: Backpack Craft (Use to hold all crafts)
- Making Playdough (ingredients, directions, pictures, Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School (Making Connections), BME Foldover
Making Slime (ingredients, directions, pictures, how to writing
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**This product is now bundled!!! You can purchase three of my favorite back to school author studies and activities and save 20%!!!***