Are you looking for back to school activities, centers and games to welcome students back to school during the first few weeks of kindergarten? Then, you will love the back to school activities included in our Back to School, First Week of School Unit. Help students feel at home with “get to know your classroom and school” scavenger hunts and room searches. Provide opportunities to share about their family and self as well and get to know new friends with large and small group centers and activities. Introduce friendship rules and routines with a variety of activities and reproducible books. Keep your back to school activities full of fun and engaging materials that review numbers, shapes, letters and writing for beginners with tons of printables. Activities included in this unit will be a fun addition to your new school year.
One of our favorite back to school activities will help students make connections with themselves and peers throughout the first few weeks of school with fun large group activities. The can share how they get to school each day and how they are feeling throughout the first few weeks.
Are Children love to share about their family. Who Lives in Your House, is a fun way for students to share a little about themselves and share with teachers who takes care of them.
Help students feel comfortable in their school with this fun scavenger hunt. Students will listen to clues and help determine the building location. The boys and girls can meet their new teachers and the staff of the school. This is also a great way to discuss the rules of the building, recess area and hallways.
Help the boys and girls learn where important things are around the classroom. Help them partner up and then search the room for the locations of the materials.
Many kindergarten students are still working on their name and letter order. This cute flower helps them work on their name and makes a cute keepsake and or room decoration.
Back to School Activities provides lots of opportunities for the boys and girls to practice writing their name within this packet.
Many children are still working on shapes and numbers from 1-10 and writing numbers 1-10. There are multiple printable books that work well for independent work and homework.
Help students build on their shape knowledge with printables and activities.
Many kindergartners are still learning their uppercase and lowercase letters. This unit has tons of alphabet practice in a variety activities. Students will use a dabber or marker to color uppercase an lowercase letters.
Children will practice matching and tracing uppercase letters.
Children will practice writing lowercase letters and identifying several sounds.
Children will build letter puzzles and write the letters.
Children will search for letters on the bus and practice writing them as well.
The boys and girls will order letters from A-Z.
The boys and girls will identify numbers, match objects to numbers and write numbers 1-10.
Children will count and graph the total number of school items.
The boys and girls will identify the numbers and draw the matching number of gumballs in the machines.
The boys and girls will love the variety of back to school activities and printables
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