Topic: Back to School

  • First Week of School Activities for 2nd Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 2nd Grade

    Welcome your students to the second grade with these fun activities! It includes several back to school activities specifically designed for second graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 2nd Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 2nd Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ First Day of School Activity
    ✔ Goal-Setting Activity
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 2nd Grade Banner

  • First Week of School Activities for 1st Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 1st Grade

    Welcome your students to the first grade with these fun activities! It includes several back to school activities specifically designed for 1st graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 1st Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 1st Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ First Day Activity: Introducing ME
    ✔ Goal-Setting Activity
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 1st Grade Banner

  • Rainbow Polka Dotted Classroom Decor Pack #7: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    Rainbow Polka Dotted Classroom Decor Pack #7: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    This MEGA Classroom Décor Bundle is a perfect way to encourage a growth mindset while creating a rainbow-colored one-of-a-kind classroom. Many of the pages are EDITABLE so you can add your own personal touches and text! Check out the preview to see all that it includes.

    In this Classroom Décor Bundle you’ll find everything you need to set up your classroom:
    ✔ Growth Mindset Posters Variety Pack of 30
    ✔ Contact Cards & Parent Forms
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ All About My Teacher Activity*
    ✔ When you Enter This Classroom Poster
    ✔ Classroom Rules Posters*
    ✔ First Day Activity: Introducing ME & My Goals
    ✔ How I get to School Chart
    ✔ Classroom Newsletters*
    ✔ Brag Tags
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House PowerPoint Slideshow*
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House Sign-in Forms*
    ✔ Welcome Back to School Letters*
    ✔ Happy Birthday Certificates and Chart*
    ✔ Student Agenda Homework Page
    ✔ Reward Cards
    ✔ Teacher Binder Covers & Spines*
    ✔ Student Binder Covers
    ✔ Classroom Jobs Posters & Recording Sheets
    ✔ Alphabet Posters (Full page and Half page*
    ✔ Cursive Letters Posters
    ✔ Numbers 1-20 (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Centers & Stations Posters (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Literary Genre Poster Set
    ✔ Reading Strategy Poster Set
    ✔ Welcome Sign/Banner (Two sizes)
    ✔ Minutes in an hour Clock Labels
    ✔ Traffic Light Behavior Signal
    ✔ Positive Notes to Send Home*
    ✔ Word Wall Words: 200 high-frequency words*
    ✔ Desk Plates/Name Tags*
    ✔ Welcome to the 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten
    ✔ Calendar Labels: Day, Months, Numbers, & Holidays
    ✔ Daily Schedule Cards: Subjects and Specials*
    ✔ Supply Labels come in both Portrait and Landscape
    ✔ Extra Labels (Circles and Squares)
    ✔ And MUCH MORE!
    ***EDITABLE***

    For BEST RESULTS, print the posters on the premium brochure and flyer paper from Office Depot. Using this paper gives the posters a vibrant look that really makes the colors pop!

    Mix and match the colors and designs from our other décor bundles to create a one-of-a-kind classroom. If you like these colorful designs, you might also like our other Classroom Décor Packs, Alphabet Photo Posters, and Growth Mindset Class Awards Variety Pack.

  • Turquoise, Purple, and Pink Dots Classroom Decor Pack #16: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    Turquoise, Purple, and Pink Dots Classroom Decor Pack #16: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    This MEGA Classroom Décor Bundle is a perfect way to encourage a growth mindset while creating a colorful and welcoming one-of-a-kind classroom. Many of the pages are EDITABLE so you can add your own personal touches and text! Check out the preview to see all that it includes.

    In this Classroom Décor Bundle you’ll find everything you need to set up your classroom:
    ✔ Growth Mindset Posters Variety Pack of 30
    ✔ Contact Cards & Parent Forms
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ All About My Teacher Activity*
    ✔ When you Enter This Classroom Poster
    ✔ Classroom Rules Posters*
    ✔ First Day Activity: Introducing ME & My Goals
    ✔ How I get to School Chart
    ✔ Classroom Newsletters*
    ✔ Brag Tags
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House PowerPoint Slideshow*
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House Sign-in Forms*
    ✔ Welcome Back to School Letters*
    ✔ Happy Birthday Certificates and Chart*
    ✔ Student Agenda Homework Page
    ✔ Reward Cards
    ✔ Teacher Binder Covers & Spines*
    ✔ Student Binder Covers
    ✔ Classroom Jobs Posters & Recording Sheets
    ✔ Alphabet Posters (Full page and Half page*
    ✔ Cursive Letters Posters
    ✔ Numbers 1-20 (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Centers & Stations Posters (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Literary Genre Poster Set
    ✔ Reading Strategy Poster Set
    ✔ Welcome Sign/Banner (Two sizes)
    ✔ Minutes in an hour Clock Labels
    ✔ Traffic Light Behavior Signal
    ✔ Positive Notes to Send Home*
    ✔ Word Wall Words: 200 high-frequency words*
    ✔ Desk Plates/Name Tags*
    ✔ Welcome to the 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten
    ✔ Calendar Labels: Day, Months, Numbers, & Holidays
    ✔ Daily Schedule Cards: Subjects and Specials*
    ✔ Supply Labels comes in both Portrait and Landscape
    ✔ Extra Labels (Circles and Squares)
    ✔ And MUCH MORE!
    ***EDITABLE***

    For BEST RESULTS, print the posters on the premium brochure and flyer paper from Office Depot. Using this paper gives the posters a vibrant look that really makes the colors pop!

    Mix and match the colors and designs from our other décor bundles to create a one-of-a-kind classroom. If you like these colorful designs, you might also like our other Classroom Décor Packs, Alphabet Photo Posters, and Growth Mindset Class Awards Variety Pack.

  • Gold, Blue, Lime Green, and Pink Striped Classroom Decor Pack #14: All You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    Gold, Blue, Lime Green, and Pink Striped Classroom Decor Pack #14: All You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    This MEGA Classroom Décor Bundle is a perfect way to encourage a growth mindset while creating a colorful and welcoming one-of-a-kind classroom. Many of the pages are EDITABLE so you can add your own personal touches and text! Check out the preview to see all that it includes.

    In this Classroom Décor Bundle you’ll find everything you need to set up your classroom:
    ✔ Growth Mindset Posters Variety Pack of 30
    ✔ Contact Cards & Parent Forms
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ All About My Teacher Activity*
    ✔ When you Enter This Classroom Poster
    ✔ Classroom Rules Posters*
    ✔ First Day Activity: Introducing ME & My Goals
    ✔ How I get to School Chart
    ✔ Classroom Newsletters*
    ✔ Brag Tags
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House PowerPoint Slideshow*
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House Sign-in Forms*
    ✔ Welcome Back to School Letters*
    ✔ Happy Birthday Certificates and Chart*
    ✔ Student Agenda Homework Page
    ✔ Reward Cards
    ✔ Teacher Binder Covers & Spines*
    ✔ Student Binder Covers
    ✔ Classroom Jobs Posters & Recording Sheets
    ✔ Alphabet Posters (Full page and Half page*
    ✔ Cursive Letters Posters
    ✔ Numbers 1-20 (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Centers & Stations Posters (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Literary Genre Poster Set
    ✔ Reading Strategy Poster Set
    ✔ Welcome Sign/Banner (Two sizes)
    ✔ Minutes in an hour Clock Labels
    ✔ Traffic Light Behavior Signal
    ✔ Positive Notes to Send Home*
    ✔ Word Wall Words: 200 high-frequency words*
    ✔ Desk Plates/Name Tags*
    ✔ Welcome to the 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten
    ✔ Calendar Labels: Day, Months, Numbers, & Holidays
    ✔ Daily Schedule Cards: Subjects and Specials*
    ✔ Supply Labels comes in both Portrait and Landscape
    ✔ Extra Labels (Circles and Squares)
    ✔ And MUCH MORE!
    ***EDITABLE***

    For BEST RESULTS, print the posters on the premium brochure and flyer paper from Office Depot. Using this paper gives the posters a vibrant look that really makes the colors pop!

    Mix and match the colors and designs from our other décor bundles to create a one-of-a-kind classroom. If you like these colorful designs, you might also like our other Classroom Décor Packs, Alphabet Photo Posters, and Growth Mindset Class Awards Variety Pack.

  • Turquoise, Lime Green, Purple Striped Classroom Decor Pack #13: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    Turquoise, Lime Green, Purple Striped Classroom Decor Pack #13: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    This MEGA Classroom Décor Bundle is a perfect way to encourage a growth mindset while creating a colorful and welcoming one-of-a-kind classroom. Many of the pages are EDITABLE so you can add your own personal touches and text! Check out the preview to see all that it includes.

    In this Classroom Décor Bundle you’ll find everything you need to set up your classroom:
    ✔ Growth Mindset Posters Variety Pack of 30
    ✔ Contact Cards & Parent Forms
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ All About My Teacher Activity*
    ✔ When you Enter This Classroom Poster
    ✔ Classroom Rules Posters*
    ✔ First Day Activity: Introducing ME & My Goals
    ✔ How I get to School Chart
    ✔ Classroom Newsletters*
    ✔ Brag Tags
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House PowerPoint Slideshow*
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House Sign-in Forms*
    ✔ Welcome Back to School Letters*
    ✔ Happy Birthday Certificates and Chart*
    ✔ Student Agenda Homework Page
    ✔ Reward Cards
    ✔ Teacher Binder Covers & Spines*
    ✔ Student Binder Covers
    ✔ Classroom Jobs Posters & Recording Sheets
    ✔ Alphabet Posters (Full page and Half page*
    ✔ Cursive Letters Posters
    ✔ Numbers 1-20 (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Centers & Stations Posters (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Literary Genre Poster Set
    ✔ Reading Strategy Poster Set
    ✔ Welcome Sign/Banner (Two sizes)
    ✔ Minutes in an hour Clock Labels
    ✔ Traffic Light Behavior Signal
    ✔ Positive Notes to Send Home*
    ✔ Word Wall Words: 200 high-frequency words*
    ✔ Desk Plates/Name Tags*
    ✔ Welcome to the 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten
    ✔ Calendar Labels: Day, Months, Numbers, & Holidays
    ✔ Daily Schedule Cards: Subjects and Specials*
    ✔ Supply Labels comes in both Portrait and Landscape
    ✔ Extra Labels (Circles and Squares)
    ✔ And MUCH MORE!
    ***EDITABLE***

    For BEST RESULTS, print the posters on the premium brochure and flyer paper from Office Depot. Using this paper gives the posters a vibrant look that really makes the colors pop!

    Mix and match the colors and designs from our other décor bundles to create a one-of-a-kind classroom. If you like these colorful designs, you might also like our other Classroom Décor Packs, Alphabet Photo Posters, and Growth Mindset Class Awards Variety Pack.

  • Welcome Back to School Letters for Students and Parents (Editable)

    Welcome Back to School Letters for Students and Parents (Editable)

    Welcome your students and parents to school this year using this editable Welcome Letter Template Pack! Includes 25+ unique designs for both students and parents. Perfect for crafting a personalized welcome letter to parents or a back to school letter to students. Comes in an editable Google Slides format and is easy to download as PowerPoint. A must-have back to school letter editable resource! Newly updated with new themes for 2025-2026 school year.

    What’s Inside:

    • 15 different designs — letters to students (editable)
    • 15 different designs — letters to parents (editable)
    • Sample letters to give you ideas for writing your own letter—all you need to do is personalize it!

    This product is editable by opening in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Then click inside the text box to change the font, font size, or edit the text. Remember to change the state where you grew up, the name of the college you attended, and the grades you’ve taught. If desired, add the date or each student’s name and your name in the closing. You might want to insert a photo of yourself or your family too!

    Remember that you might not have the same fonts as my system so if you edit the text, you will probably have to change all of the fonts in that text box so it matches correctly. I am always adding new designs to match popular classroom themes and as new clip art becomes available so you can change it up year after year.

  • All About Me Flip Book: A FUN Back to School Activity

    All About Me Flip Book: A FUN Back to School Activity

    All About Me Flip Booklet is a unique and creative project for the first day or week of school! Students color, cut, and create it! Individualize it with a family page for both girls and boys, respectively.

    I have used this All About Me Flip Up Booklet as a growing activity where we do one or two pages a day for the first week of school. Or you could do it all at once as a great first day of school activity.

    Have students cut out each back to school all about me flip up book page, answer the questions, color, and then assemble the booklet last. After students have completed the pages, have them share with others in the classroom as a getting to know you activity.

    This is a wonderful all about my first entry for the school year in their interactive notebooks. Or you could put them together in a file folder to place on their desks or on a bulletin board to show off for Open House.

    The last all about me page is a two-step process where students need to cut out the favorites flaps and then glue onto the last page. Then answer the questions underneath the flaps so they can reveal their answers to their classmates.

    This all about me flip up booklet looks beautiful as a bulletin board display so parents, students, and staff can lift the pages to see all about the new students in your class. Just add a first-day photo on page 1 and it’s ready to be posted.

  • Back to School Activities: Create a School Bus Flip Book

    Back to School Activities: Create a School Bus Flip Book

    Back to school is here again! Celebrate that first week of school with this fun and unique school bus flip book activity. Six page of questions that will help you get to know your students better.

    It has six pages with questions about:
    Your summer
    Your family
    Your school
    Your class
    Your favorites
    Your goals

    Have students answer the questions on each page of the flip book. Then color, cut, and assemble the flip book. Pages can be done one at a time in different stations and fit perfectly inside their interactive notebooks! Directions and sample pictures are included.

    All pages are in black and white for students to complete, color, and make their own school bus flip book! Print-n-go for a fun and unique back to school activity.

  • Back to School Activities for the First Week of School: Name Poem Activity

    Back to School Activities for the First Week of School: Name Poem Activity

    This is a wonderful writing activity to do with the students during the 1st week of school. It reviews the parts of speech, doesn’t take long to complete, and makes a great bulletin board display. This pack includes a name poem template, student examples, and teacher directions.

    I love doing this activity with the students during the 1st week of school. It’s a great creative writing project that reviews some of the parts of speech, doesn’t take long to complete, and makes a great bulletin board display. Parents love seeing the final copies during open house night. I have done this activity with students ranging from 2nd to 6th grade and have always had great success.

    You could do this as a partner activity where students interview each other to answer the questions so they can get to know each other better too.

    Be sure to take a photograph of each student on the first day of school. Then you can either import the picture when students are finished typing or you can print 4×6’s at your favorite photo center and glue them at the top of their final copies.

  • Goal-Setting Activities For the First Week of School {Grades 2-4}

    Goal-Setting Activities For the First Week of School {Grades 2-4}

    Welcome, Your Students Back to School with these Newly Updated Activities! This back to school activity pack has 12 fun activity pages for students to complete the first week of school. These are an excellent way to get to know your students better. You can use them for morning work, centers, or just for fun.

    It includes:
    ✔ All About Me
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Interest Inventories for Math, Reading, and Writing
    ✔ Introducing Me!
    ✔ My Goals for this Year
    ✔ My Favorite Things
    ✔ When I Grow Up
    ✔ Ready.Set.Go! Activity

    Each page has several questions for students to answer about themselves so you can get to know them better. Here are some examples of questions:
    ✔ One thing I’m looking forward to 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade
    ✔ One thing I want to improve on is
    ✔ One thing I’m really good at is
    ✔ One wish I have for this year
    ✔ One thing I’m proud of is
    ✔ Three words to describe me
    ✔ One thing my teacher did last year that helped me was
    ✔ Three things I do every day to make sure I have an awesome day!
    ✔ I find it easier to focus when I am writing if
    ✔ One strategy I use to help me be a better writer is
    ✔ One thing I like about reading is
    ✔ One reading goal I have for this school year is
    ✔ One person I admire is  _________________ because…
    ✔ AND MORE!

    It includes goal-setting pages for reading, writing, and math so you can learn your student’s interests, strengths, and areas to work on. There are separate pages for each grade level (2nd, 3rd, 4th) and a boy and girl “My Goals” page so you can personalize it.

    Plus a bonus: How I Get to School Activity.
    Easy Peasy…..just print-n-go!

  • Anchors Away Name Tags and Desk Plates

    Anchors Away Name Tags and Desk Plates

    Start the year with pizzazz with these EDITABLE and FUN Anchors Away Name Tags and desk plates! Mix and match to go along with your Ocean-Themed or Beach-Themed Classroom Decor.

    This pack includes 32 different Desk Name Tags designs with black slate and white backgrounds to give you lots of options.

    THIS IS EDITABLE SO YOU CAN ADD YOUR STUDENTS’ NAMES!

    For best results, click in the text boxes on each page to add student names. You might need to increase or decrease the font size to fill the space depending on the length of each student’s name. Then save the file as a pdf. Be sure to print them on a heavier paper like cardstock or send the file to Office Depot, Office Max, or FedEx for professional printing.

    Quick Print:
    Simply, print the PDF in color. you might want to use Brochure and Flyer Paper to make the color really pop! Laminate them to last longer. Cut them apart and attach to student desks.

    Only the TEXT is EDITABLE! To edit the text use the design pages included in this PowerPoint. Click on the text boxes on each page and enter your own information. Save your work. Year after year use these to personalize with new student names!

    Directions are included for changing the font so they can look the same as the ones I created in this pack.

    Be sure to check out my other classroom decor packs to mix and match!