Have you ever had a student zoom through their work and then wonder, what now? Keeping early finishers engaged can be a challenge, but with these 20 back to school early finisher activities for kindergarten, you’ll have a ready-to-go solution! These interactive file folder games reinforce essential math and literacy skills, while keeping students motivated and on task. No more scrambling for extra activities—just grab a folder, and let the learning continue!

Literacy Back to School Early Finisher Activities

While these fast finisher file folder games were designed for early finishers, they are also great for centers or morning work.

Here is a sneak peek at the ten literacy back to school early finisher activities!

ABC Backpack Order

The students will put the backpacks in ABC order for this back to school early finisher activity.

Beginning Boxes

This file folder game is great for reviewing beginning sounds! The students will match the crayon to the correct beginning sound crayon box.

Bus Stop Syllables

Practice one and two syllable words with this fast finisher file folder game, where students sort the pictures by syllables.

Learning Labels

This file folder game allows students to work on beginning sounds, as they label pictures with the correct beginning sound.

Letter Shape Sort

This is a great beginning of the year activity, where students sort uppercase letters by shape.

Lunch Letters

To review uppercase and lowercase letters, the students will match the lowercase lunch tray to the uppercase tray.

Paper and Pencil Match

For this file folder game, the students will match uppercase to uppercase letters, lowercase to lowercase letters, or lowercase to uppercase letters.

Sorting Supplies

Practice ending sounds with this file folder game. The students simply sort the school supplies by ending sound.

Sticky Rhymes

The students will sort pictures that rhyme or do not rhyme with this fast finisher activity.

Watercolor Words

For this last literacy early finisher activity, students will decode CVC words as they match the unicorn CVC word to the picture on the easel.

Math Back to School Early Finisher Activities

Here is a sneak peek at the ten math back to school early finisher activities!

Building Bear Patterns

The students will extend AB patterns with this file folder game.

Clipboard Kids

To practice subitizing 1-5 with fingers and five frames, the students will match the clipboard to the correct number.

Colorful Cars

Sorting by color is an important beginning of the year skill. With this file folder game, the studentts will sort the cars to the correct color.

Counting Cubes

Counting Cubes is a great activity to practice 1:1 counting to 10. The students will count the cubes and match them to the correct number.

Finding Fives

The students will match the equation to the correct five frame with this addition within five file folder game.

Notebook Number

Practice number order 1-20 by putting the notebooks in numerical order.

Painting Ten Frames

To practice subitizing 1-10 with ten frames, the students will match the paint brush to the correct bucket of paint.

School Size

This early finisher activity is a fun way to compare and order objects by size.

Scissor Graphing

This fast finisher activity is great for graphing and analyzing data. The students will graph the pictures. Then, they wil match the number to show how many.

Shape Seats

For this last math file folder game, the students will identify circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles by matching the chairs to the correct table.

Back to School Early Finisher Activities

Grab the 20 file folder games, including 10 literacy and 10 math early finisher activities, here!

More Back to School Activities

Learn how to easily organize and manage your fast finisher file folder games by heading to this post! You can use these tips to set up these back to school early finisher activities or any of the fast finisher file folder games found in this bundle.

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