I Love School! Back-to-School Pack

and

We Love School! Class Book Kit

 

$4.00

Perfect for K-1 Students!

Included in this 22 page reading/writing pack:

While this kit is billed as a first day of school pack, there are enough activities to easily make it a mini unit for the first week. Pair the book with your other back-to-school books for a rich language arts mini-unit. The bonus 4-page class book kit is emailed to you in MS Word format, so that you can modify it to meet your students' needs.

The book kit includes title page, About this Book explanation (foreword), student page template, and comments page for readers.

Things I Love about School

• Graphic organizer

• Students may draw pictures or write words

My Teacher - Free Sample!

• Graphic organizer

• Great for teacher feedback

Our Favorite Things about School

• Two graph templates (two-column and three-column)

• This is an easy way to integrate math into the first day of school

First Day of School Timeline

• Two versions are included -- one with ordinal numbers; one with transition words

• This is a perfect tool for reviewing the day before students go home to tell their parents all about their first day of school

What I Did on My First Day of School

• This page features a large area for students to illustrate a memorable event from their first day.

• Save this page for those end-of-year memory books!

Venn Diagram

• Students make comparisons and contrasts between their classroom and those in the story -- a great way to model revisiting the text to read for specific information.

At School

• Here's another simple recording page for students to write about what they like about school, and what they love about school.

• This helps to put a positive spin on the day for even reluctant students.

Our Class Mascot

• Two pages are included for students to illustrate and write about your class mascot.

Our Class Pet

• Introduce your class pet and then ask children to "frame it" by illustrating it in its habitat.

• A writing page with a picture box is included, also.

My Second Day in Kindergarten (or first grade, or second grade)

• Lots of fuss is made on the first day of school. Here's to the second day of school, which is the first "real" (full) day of school for many students.

• Consider this final product for the end-of-year memory books, also!

Two Pages of Teacher Notes

• Two pages with descriptions and extension suggestions are included with this pack.