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Back to School

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Postcards: Welcome to Middle School!  
Bulletin Board Trim: Junior High Rocks (small) Scalloped edge, full color.
Bulletin Board Trim: Middle School Rocks (small) Scalloped edge, full color.
Fiction: Ugh! Back to School (middle school) A realistic fiction story, and great testing practice! This reading comprehension would make a good opening for talking about friends, peer pressure, fitting in...
Form: All About Me (upper elem/ middle) Have your students write about themselves, their interests, and goals.
Form: Welcome Back ...to Middle School Start the year right by helping students look at themselves and their goals for the coming year with these pages of open-ended and wide-ranging questions about interests and goals.
Unit Setting & Achieving Goals (upper elem/ middle) This is a great way of involving parents and students in goal-setting. Starting with a letter to parents and ending with a form for helping students achieve self-set goals, measure their own progress, and learn the sense of accomplishment that comes with achievement!
Writing Paper: School Days (elem/upper elem) Narrow-lined writing paper with color illustrations of school books and apples in the upper-left and lower-right corners.



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Desk Tag: Welcome to Middle School!  
Acrostic Form: School School acrostic poem form.
Border Paper: School Theme blackline version (pdf)
Border Paper: School Theme (smaller size) Wide lines, landscape orientation, with color illustrations of school supplies in the surrounding margin.
Calendar: Blank (landscape) pdf format
Classroom Bingo (Word) Use this Word document to add your students' names to this bingo game.
Form: Back to School (elementary) This fill-in-the-blank story is a good way to get to know your students' personalities and writing abilities--and might be fun to refer back to at the end of the school year!
Form: School Goals (elem/ upper elem) Students choose goals they would like to accomplish and explain why.
Game: Find Someone Who... (multi-age) "All About Me" This fun 15 question game ("Find someone who has been to the zoo this year" etc) is a great getting-to-know-you game-- even for people who think they know each other!
Game: Who Am I? (elem/ upper elem) Students enter information about themselves, and then try to guess "who's who?" based on some of the clues.
KWL: My School Use this form to organize Know, Want to know, and Learned material about your school.
Shapebooks: Backpack - Favorites (Middle School) [member-created with abctools] Trace and cut out. This backpack-shaped shapebook has prompts for students to answer about their favorites. Good for first day back-to-school. Cute for posting around the room, or just learning about your students. Made for middle school.
Venn Diagram: School Subjects Use this Venn diagram to compare school subjects.
Writing Prompt: Back to School (upper elem) "It was the first day of school and I forgot..." Fifteen writing prompts and story starters with a back-to-school theme.
Writing Prompt: Back to School Feelings (elem) Writing activity asking students to write about how they feel at the start of a new school year
Writing Prompts: All About School (elem/ upper elem) Seven pages of lined border paper with illustrations of apples and pencils in the borders. Each page features writing prompts for students to answer about themselves, their school, and their interests. Good for first day back-to-school.
Classroom Newsletter: Back to School Theme (color) Print up the form and write in the details (Check out what we're doing, Help Wanted, Special Notes, Reminders) to make a great classroom newsletter. With colorful school house, student and school bus illustrations.
Classroom Newsletter: Back to School Theme (b/w) Print up the form and write in the details (Check out what we're doing, Help Wanted, Special Notes, Reminders) to make a great classroom newsletter. With school house, student and school bus outlines to color.
Teaching Idea: First Day of School (all ages) Suggestions for how to organize a first day of school.
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