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14.) Classmate Bingo
- Color the bingo card. Place the names of
your classmates in the blank boxes. Your
teacher will call out names. The pictures
are free spaces. Put a pretzel on the names
she calls. If you get four in a row, yell
CLASSMATE BINGO!
15.) Classmate Survey
- Walk around the room and find classmates
that fit these categories. If they do, have
the classmate sign their name next to the survey.
See how many different names you can get. Your
teacher will tell you when to begin and end.
16.) Lucky School
Year – Attach to Ziploc of Lucky
Charms. Fold in half – over the bag
(Prek-3)
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17.) Watermelon Emergent
Reader – A little book for your students
to read and color. The last page asks your
students to draw themselves eating watermelon.
(K-2)
18.) Watermelon Flavor
Graph – You will need to allow your
students to taste a watermelon, watermelon
flavored gum, watermelon flavored Jello, and
watermelon flavored Kool-Aid before doing this
activity. They should then decide which one
they like the best. Then have them complete
the activity sheet. The sheet asks them to
tally up each classmates favorites (You may
choose to do this part of the activity as a class
exercise). Next, they color in the graph to
match the tally marks. Finally the sheet
asks them answer questions about their work.
19.) Watermelon Graphic
Organizer – A simple graphic organizer
for your students to jot down watermelon words
on. (1-3)
20.) Watermelon Math Baggie
Center – Student matches the rind to the
sum in seeds. This center can be placed in
a baggie and one can be handed out to each
student to complete. (1-3)
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1.) Classroom Treasure
Hunt – Have the students read the
statement in the box, find an item to match the
statement, draw a picture, and write a word in
the box. (For grades 2-3) Read the
statement to your students and have them find the
item that matches the statement. Then they
must draw a picture of the item in the box.
(K-1)
2.) First Day Name Tags
– Type a student’s name on a name tag
in the space provided. Students, who are
leaving school on a bus, would get a bus name
tag. Students who are walking home would
get a sneaker name tag. Students who are
getting a ride home would get a car name tag.
After you type the names on the tags, print the
tags on cardstock, laminate, and place a pin on
the back. Give each student their name tag
on the first day. (K-1)
3.) Mini Book –
“What Will We Learn Mini Book” –
An emergent reader for the first day. Each
page has a picture for your student to color.
You can read the book together (k-1) and then
have the students take it home to share with an
adult.
4.) Back To School Times
– A writing activity for the first day.
The student fills in the newspaper writing prompt
to create an All About Me paper. You could
display these on a bulletin board. Parents
would enjoy these at open house. These are
also nice to save for the portfolio. (1-3)
5.) How Did You Get Here?
– A tally and graphing activity. Students
must tally how their new friends got to school.
They must then color the given graph to match
their tally marks. Then they are asked to
answer a few questions about their graph. This
can be done as a group activity (1-2) or as an
independent activity (3).
6.) Graphing For Back To
School – Student cuts out given pictures
and pastes them to a given graph. The student
must answer questions about the finished graph.
(1-3).
7.) Shopping For School
Words – student is given a school word.
The student must use the key to add up the
letters in the word and then find a total price
for the word. (2-3)
8.) Interview a Classmate
Form – Give each student one of these
forms. Program the forms with a name of a
classmate you would like the student to
interview. The student’s then ask
their classmate the questions on the form. When
everyone is finished have each student use the
form they created to introduce the classmate to
your class. (2-3)
9.) Marshmallow Toes
– Activity Directions, Sentence Strips for
Pocket Chart, and student activity sheet. (1-3)
10.) Lucky Charms Bag
Topper – Print on cardstock and staple
to a Ziploc bag of Lucky Charms Cereal. Give
to your students to take home on the first day of
school.
11.) Back to School
Pocket Chart – Student matches pictures
to the text in the pocket chart. Sentence
strips and pictures are included. Also
included is an independent activity sheet for the
student to complete.
12.) Get to Know You
Glyph – This includes the glyph for your
student to create, a bulletin board display for
you to use as a center, and a center sheet for
your students to complete while at the bulletin
board (1-3).
13.) Balloon Strips
– For an icebreaker, place slips in
balloons. Kids sit on the balloon to pop
it. They then read the question and answer
it.
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