This is a great first week of school sheet to let students fill out. They can color the pictures and decorate. Another use is feature five students a day to share, or save them in a file and have the students share them on their birthday with the class. Getting so excited for the school year!! Science Doodles Interactive Notebook BUNDLES I offer you might like: (click on links below) Safety, Tools and Scientific Method Bundle Classifying Matter Bundle Changes in Water Bundle Mixtures and Solutions Bundle Circuits Bundle Light Bundle Energy Bundle Sun, Earth, and Moon Bundle Food Chains and Food Webs Bundle Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors Bundle Adaptations Bundle Interdependency Bundle Environmental Changes Bundle Fossils and Sedimentary Rocks Bundle Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Bundle Science Concepts Bundle Year of Vocabulary Words Bundle Social Studies Interactive Notebook Doodles I also offer: Social Studies YEAR BUNDLE of Vocabulary Words, History Alive Social Studies YEAR BUNDLE of Chapter Tests, History Alive Social Studies YEAR BUNDLE of 21 Foldables, History Alive Best wishes! Melanie

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Teachers face a challenge at start of school year, wanting to know each student quickly. With big classes, learning about every students interests, strengths, and need areas is tough.

All About Me Worksheet Preschool. All About Me Math Race by Still Playing School. I’m happy that I found every little thing and extra in a single place. Each looks ahead to attending to know one another. They virtually fit into the mold of play

30 Fill-in Personal Posters for Students to Display with Pride Invite students to tell all about themselves in writing and pictures by completing this motivating, literacy-boosting graphic organizer. A great back-to-school icebreaker! Details:30 posters plus teaching guide17 x 22Grades: 3-6

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Comment commencer l'année en 3e ? Avec une activité différenciée pour se présenter à l'oral comme à l'écrit !

Share all about yourself with this getting-to-know-you writing activity!

With Thanksgiving quickly approaching (where did November go?!), we’re spending some time in PreK discussing families and thankfulness. Here’s some freebies I’d like to share from some of my best selling packs! Click each photo to get the PDF for download. The first page is from my All About Me Interactive Notebook: A Cut and Paste...Read More

A fun activity for students to write fun facts all about them. Back to School - All About Me - Box Theme Worksheet

I'm finding myself thinking once again about motivation. It's never really very far from a teacher's mind. "How can I motivate my kids to...?" Several years ago I came across a homework activity called "Math About Me." It seemed like a great idea. I wanted my mathematicians to know that math surrounds them but more importantly that math is all about them and their own lives. Six-year olds tend to want to learn about things that are about them. Don't we all? I'm 40, and it's still true for me 34 years later. I've tweaked the activity a few times over the years from its original state, but I still send it home and ask kids to fill it out and return it to school. What do I do with it? Grade it? Slap a sticker on it and send it back home? Nope. Well, isn't it obvious? We've got ourselves another classroom book to make. Check it out. (Click on the picture for your own copy.)

Hey Everyone – Yup, it’s that time of year again!! I always like to begin each school year with a “Getting to Know You” Questionnaire. Here’s one I have created that you may enjoy using with your own kiddos. It has all of the usual questions on it, but then it asks students a few ... Read More about All About Me

High school students, its time to let your creativity shine! Express yourself and show off your unique personality with a free printable All About Me form.

This book is all about flower husbands and Desert duo one shots! I'll take suggestions :D I'll take ship suggestions ^^ Anyways enjoy :P

This Spanish All About Me free printable is the perfect way to kick-off the school year on the first day of school, or for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Kindergarten reading and writing worksheets on the topic of insects. Designed for young learners in preschool and kindergarten. Students will read a short passage on the insect and answer basic que…

A person recounts her visit to London. There is a reading passage and some images to talk about. They have to answer the questions and discuss the images. Full key provided. - ESL worksheets

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Are you looking for a free, no prep, and engaging back to school activity? This worksheet is perfect as a 'getting to know you' activity on the first day of school. Grab this free printable for your first week back to school this year! It includes 2 versions (US version with spelling of 'favorite' and 'color' & UK/AUS version with spelling of 'favourite' and 'colour'). *NOTE - This activity has the digital overlay tool option. Text boxes have been added! Need more amazing ideas for the first day/week back at school? Check out: Back to School Printables Back to School Writing Prompts Back to School Color by Addition Worksheets Back to School Sentence Building Back to School Roll a Story (Writing Prompt) Enjoy this resource! Don't forget to follow my store Terrific Teaching Tactics for more awesome products and rate this product :) Let's Connect! Pinterest Instagram Facebook

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I know - it's a scary thought reality!!!! I'm sorry to even say the words......Back to School. But let's be honest. It's not that far away now, and closer for some than for others. So let's start thinking about how we can prepare. I don't know about you, but I have been stalking Target, Hobby Lobby and a few other places all summer long looking for the best deals and the cutest little bins, buckets, and supplies. Why, oh why, do we teachers spend so much dang money on our classrooms (and have so much fun doing it!?!). I know, I know!!! (I say as I wave my hand in the air like my new students will likely be doing soon enough.) We buy cutesy new things for our classrooms and spend our money on supplies because we love to see the looks on the faces of our little ones when they walk through the door and see their new HOME! It's one of the many reasons why we love teaching so much. As much as we all dread the end of another summer and the freedom we get with it, we also secretly love the excitement of the first day of school. Come on - admit it - you feel the same way too. If there ever comes a time when I don't feel that way, then that should be when I retire. I say retire because I am positive it will not be happening for a LONG time, if ever. I feel like I'm going to be one of those lovely, older, experienced teachers who doesn't want to retire and has to be kicked out. I'll have to dragged out kicking and screaming - dragging my chevron and polka dotted decorations behind me! So back to how we can prepare for going back to school. I don't actually go back until after Labor Day (I'm sorry if that makes you hate me right now, but you get out earlier I'm sure =) I will definitely be posting pictures of my classroom when I actually get around to organizing and decorating it. I also have to find room for all of this stuff... (remember I mentioned I had been shopping just a teeny bit). Even though my room is nowhere near ready I have been thinking A LOT about what I plan on doing those first few weeks of school. This will only be my 2nd year teaching 1st grade. It is my 12th year teaching, but I taught 3rd and 4th grades for 10 years. Last year I was in survival mode with the implementation of Common Core, all the changes with teacher evaluation, and being my first year in a new grade level. It was fun, but I have so many ideas for what I want to do differently this year. But before I talk about all of the things I plan to change (that will have to be another post), I have to get through the first week of school. Yikes!! So here are a few ideas I've been throwing around for that first week. I will start with some things from my Welcome Back Pack. I've always loved reading First Day Jitters by Julie Dannenburg on the first day of school and I also found First Grade Jitters by Robert Quackenbush - how perfect is that? I will start with this First Day Feelings survey and class graph after reading one or both of those books. The picture of the graph is just an example to show what it might look like. We will also make Jitter Juice from Babbling Abby's Fun with Firsties to ease the nerves and have a little snack break =) We will compare our summer with school like this example from First Grade Honeybunch. We will reminisce about our summers *tear* with a little summer writing (which is really my teacher way of getting a quick writing sample to see where they are at). We will HAVE to finish on a high note and not get totally depressed that our summers are over, so we will then come back together and talk about all the amazing things we will be doing this year in first grade - like learning to READ!!!!!! That's a big one! I will give some beautiful, could hear a pin drop, speech about how reading opens the doors to anything you will ever do in life like driving, traveling the world, and of course social media like texting, Facebook, etc. (I'm not totally serious, but I know they will think this is the best part =( Next, we're going to need to break up the sitting, because I don't know if you know this or not, but kids (and adults too) who are just coming back to school after a summer vacation are not so good at sitting for long periods of time and their attention spans are mere minutes at best. So it is extremely necessary to plan for multiple breaks in the day. My Find a Friend activities will give us that opportunity to get up and walk around. These are perfect for any student because there is no reading involved - just pictures. I would introduce this by going through the pictures and pointing out what they are and what they might think of when they see them (a little inferencing on the first day of school - take that Common Core!) Then they walk around and get other kids to sign their names next to a picture they like. When we come back together to share I have students share what they picked and why. For example, I might pick the dog and say that I have a black lab named Molly and tell a little about her. There are 4 different versions of this so I can do 1 each day to get up and moving. The next thing that I think we probably all do is some getting to know you activities or All About Me. I created an All About Me banner that will be perfect to hang up in the hallway or on a bulletin board. So excited to do these this year! There are a couple variations to choose from. I will probably choose this one I also have this super cute Math About Me craftivity that I like to do with the kids. We discuss how math and numbers are everywhere and how we can even describe ourselves using numbers. The craftivity above is a freebie in my TpT Store, but I also just wrote a poem to go with it. You can download the poem HERE if you'd like it. To finish off my pack, I also have included a Back to School interactive mini-book and some printables/coloring pages to fill time or use as morning work. In addition to all this FUN, I also need to take care of some business. That business will be ROUTINES, ROUTINES, ROUTINES!!!! I will be modeling like a crazy woman and pointing out when students are following rules. I will be positive and upbeat, but when needed we will stop what we are doing and go back to the carpet to review a routine or a rule. Here are a bunch of books I plan on reading those first few days as we discuss rules and routines and make anchor charts. I don't have any formal plans for these yet, but I am working on a few things to go along with some of these books, and others will be just discussions and connections. We will work through our class rules that first week (more to come in a later post on that) and more routines. So I hope you got some good ideas from my First Week of First Grade plans. I'd love to hear what you are doing in your own classrooms (or are planning on doing), so leave me a little note =) Click HERE to go to part 2 of this post - I Survived the First Week - Now What? Some more freebies and a chance to win!!!

We came back from winter break with a two day week last week. I really wanted to do a review of multiplication concepts, because we had been away from school for twelve days. So I had planned some …

This is a little throw-back post from over 2 years ago... yet it's one of my favorites. ;) I know we all love the book, "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?"! It's such a great book to encourage our little ones to fill others' buckets and in turn fill their own bucket. If you want to see more, go {here}. Well, I've found another amazing book to help with your students' self esteem. The book is: Amazon This book is so cute! It's about a grandma teaching a lesson to her grand daughter. Back in her day, Grandma felt the pressure to fit in. She bought her clothes from the Hap {like the Gap, but not}, worked out at Silver's Gym {get it? Like Gold's Gym...haha} and tried to be just like Mallory Emma McBane. Until Mallory started acting like Laura LaVan. This is such a fun rhyming book about the importance of being yourself and LOVING YOURSELF! Ok, I'm pretty partial to this book since a great friend of mine wrote it . It really has a great message and I like it so much I made a mini-unit to share with you for FREE! :) Here are some of the activities to do with your students: Student mini-book {just staple in the corner}: They add a piece of tin foil to this page to act like a mirror! Some writing activities too: Whole class chart: Whole class sequencing chart to go with the book: Head over to Amazon, pick up the book and help your students feel good about themselves! Frames courtesy of http://www.deliciousscrapshop.com/ Clipart &/or fonts copyright and used with permission by DJ Inkers

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Get into the spirit of Halloween, and write about your scariest experience! This writing prompt is a fun way to build grammar and vocabulary skills.

As we approach the end of the school year, I wanted to make some monthly NO PREP packets that would help keep us on course, review some skills and making

Teachers face a challenge at start of school year, wanting to know each student quickly. With big classes, learning about every students interests, strengths, and need areas is tough.

Amazing speaking activity for the beginners! This doc includes basic questions of English grammar and you as a teacher or parent can use these questions to develop speaking skills of your students. - ESL worksheets