These back to school activities will hold your pupils attention as a new year begins! There are 10 activities included that you and your pupils will enjoy! There are a wide variety of activities that encourage your class and yourself to get to know your pupils better.
These ten back to school activities require very few supplies - most will be ones you already have in your classroom! Do one a day for the first ten days of school or make a whole day of activities.
Here’s what you’ll get:
2 facts and a fib
name tag glyph
Classmate word search
find someone who
connections
holiday snapshots
minute to win it (5 activities)
cootie catcher
would you rather
paper chain STEM challenge
Preperation is quick, easy and very manageable … display the slide(s) for the activity you would like to do. Some activities have printable, some need a few supplies and others require nothing!
This PDF is designed to teach children about diversity and stereotypes with the aim to create a poem that defies stereotypes.
Included:
Learning Intention
definitions
guess the stereotype picture quiz
whole class planning
shoulder partner planning
planning template (for individual plans)
model poem (one verse)
template poem
edit and review page with example
page borders.
Suitable for upper primary.
This PDF contains 20 unique remote learning awards. You can have students vote on these or choose them yourself. Your kids will be delighted when they receive their award!
Awards include:
Mr/Mrs Manners
Morning Person
Captain Cooperative
Radical Reader
Always Smiling
Ray of Sunshine
Writing Wizard
Amazing Artist
Computer Whizz
Handwriting Hero
Creative Kid
Awesome Attendance
Super Speller
Musical Maestro
Excellent Effort
Team Player
Fab Friend
Epic Emoji’s
Awesome at …
10 pdf slides with child friendly would you rather questions. These are thought provoking questions as well as being quite silly. Simply ask your students “would you rather?” and have students use the hands up feature on microsoft teams to answer the question (hand up icon versus no hand up for each question).
Choose a few students to say their choice and explain why they picked that choice. Encourage students to use the sentence “I would rather … because…”
This is a great game for building oral language and for discussing opinions.