Description
These back to school activities help students get to know one another, play cooperative games, complete STEM projects, follow a recipe, and learn character education lessons, all in the first weeks of school.
Activities Included
- Get to Know You SNAP!: a card game played like Uno
- Play-Dough Puzzlers: 10 STEM challenges with a booklet and recording sheet
- Hit the Target: a goal-setting STEM project and target craft
- YOLO for Yoko: a lesson on bold choices and accepting differences, with a class chart, menu booklet, and sushi craft
- Friendship Sushi: make candy sushi with recipe poems and a how-to booklet
- Cootie Catchers: 3 get to know you cootie catchers
- Riding Into a New Year: a bus directed drawing and writing pages
- Classroom Riddles: 5 team riddles
- This Year Will Rock: rock and roll photo booth props, bulletin board letters, rock star craft, and writing pages
- Don’t Sink My Ship: a get to know you game played like Battleship
- All About Me Bags: templates for sharing fun facts
- Quality Character: 10 days of character education lessons with pennant banners, bracelets, and a booklet
Books Used
- The Energy Bus for Kids by Jon Gordon
- Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun by Maria Dismondy
- Stand in My Shoes by Bob Sornson
- Bubble Gum Brain by Julia Cook
- Teamwork Isn’t My Thing, and I Don’t Like to Share! by Julia Cook
- My Mouth Is a Volcano! by Julia Cook
- Yoko by Rosemary Wells
Character Education Topics
Think positive thoughts, use positive words, no bullies zone, choose kind, enjoy the ride, have courage, show empathy, make mistakes, work as a team, and respect others.
What’s Included
- More than 10 back to school activities
- 186 pages
Good to Know
Some activities need books, candy, or play-dough. This unit was made by Hope King and Amy Lemons.
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