Kick off the school year with a school bus craft for The Wheels on the Bus that helps students practice sequencing the letters in their names! Along with this name craft, students will learn an interactive name poem. Use this name song on the first day of school to help students learn each others' names. Add this The Wheels on the Bus craft to your back to school activities, first week of school activities, or name activities! This back to school craft is a cute back to school bulletin board!

Simple School Bus Craft for Back to School

Nothing says “back to school” quite like a bright yellow school bus! Kick off the school year with a fun…

Develop self-awareness, confidence and a sense of belonging with these all about me books for preschool and kindergarten! These back to school books include Marvelous Me, I Like me, I Am Enough and more! Pair these all about me read alouds with any all about me activities, all about me crafts, or back to school activities on the first day of school. Plus, see an all about me backpack craft which is one of the best getting to know activities and back to school crafts for the first week of school!

10 Uplifting All About Me Books for Back to School

Building a strong classroom community is essential at the start of the school year! It’s important for students to feel…

Reinforce recess expectations, recess rules, and recess behavior during the first week of school with these engaging The Recess Queen activities and back to school craft! After reading this back to school read aloud, complete a variety of back to school activities to establish recess routines, including The Recess Queen character traits, The Recess Queen anchor charts, and The Recess Queen centers. Your students will love The Recess Queen craft, which makes a cute back to school bulletin board!

20+ The Recess Queen Activities to Easily Establish Recess Routines & Procedures

Recess is an exciting part of the day for little learners, but without clear expectations, it can quickly turn into…

Have a ready-to-go solution for those fast finishers with these 20 back to school early finisher activities for kindergarten! These fast finisher activities include 10 math activities and 10 literacy activities. Early finishers simply swap out the file folder games when they finish a task early. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, 1:1 counting, making 5, identifying shapes, sorting by color, and more. Great for back to school centers, morning work, or morning tubs!

20 Quick Back to School Early Finisher Activities for Kindergarten

Have you ever had a student zoom through their work and then wonder, what now? Keeping early finishers engaged can…

Kick off the school year with these 20 back to school centers for kindergarten, including 10 literacy centers and 10 math centers! These back to school activities and kindergarten center ideas can be used to introduce center routines and procedures. Not only are these back to school kindergarten centers great for center rotations, but they're also perfect for morning work and early finishers. Add these kindergarten center activities to your center time, morning tubs or early finisher activities!

20 Easy & Engaging Back to School Centers for Kindergarten

As the school year kicks off, it’s essential to have activities that keep your little learners engaged while reinforcing critical…

Incorporate writing into your Thanksgiving activities with these How To Catch a Turkey activities and turkey crafts! Using one of the best turkey books for kids and these procedural writing activities, students will devise a turkey trap for catching the turkey in disguise. They will also use transition words from the how to writing anchor chart to create their procedural writing and Thanksgiving crafts. This How to Catch a Turkey craft for Thanksgiving makes a cute Thanksgiving bulletin board!

The Best How to Catch a Turkey Activities and Craft

A turkey is on the loose! How can you catch it? Have some fun this Thanksgiving devising a plan to…

Gobble up this turkey life cycle craft for kindergarten and first grade! This life cycle of a turkey craft is a great center activity leading up to Thanksgiving break. This turkey craft for kids is perfect for your Thanksgiving centers and Thanksgiving bulletin board. Pair this Thanksgiving craft for kids with your favorite fiction or nonfiction turkey books! Integrate science into your Thanksgiving unit, Thanksgiving activities, and Thanksgiving lessons by downloading this turkey activity!

Interactive Turkey Life Cycle Craft for Kids

November is all about turkeys! I love to incorporate a variety of turkey activities, leading up to Thanksgiving break. We…

Tame the morning chaos and engage your kindergarten students, as they build fine motor skills, with these 20 math and ELA November fine motor activities! These fall fine motor activities are great for fine motor centers, morning tubs, morning work, fall centers, or early finisher activities. Practice 1:1 counting, subitizing and more with these Thanksgiving fine motor activities. Plus, use these fall activities for kids to practice CVC words, letter recognition, sight words and syllables!

20 November Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

November is always a bit of a crazy month! The honeymoon phase of a new school year has ended, the…

Celebrate Halloween with this ultimate list of Halloween activities, Halloween crafts, and Halloween games for kindergarten and first grade! Your elementary students will have a spooktacular time playing the Halloween math games, rotating between the math and literacy Halloween centers, and engaging in the Halloween science experiments. These Halloween activities for kids are great for Halloween centers and your Halloween classroom party! Find Halloween books for kids, Halloween gifts and more!

The Best 20+ Halloween Activities for Kindergarten

Celebrating Halloween isn’t just a one day thing… it’s a holiday that is celebrated the entire month of October! These…

Learn all about spiders as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive spider activities and spider craft! These spider activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these spider activities and spider craft for kids with your favorite spider books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

25 Fun All About Spider Activities and Spider Craft for Kids

Nothing embodies the spirit of Halloween quite like spiders! While some kids think they are creepy, others think they are…

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

25 Amazing All About Bat Activities and Bat Craft for Kids

Ghosts, pumpkins, witches… when our students think about Halloween, these three words typically come to mind first. But let’s not…

Get ready to engage your little learners with these 10 Room on the Broom Halloween center activities, including 5 Halloween math centers & 5 Halloween literacy centers! These Room on the Broom activities allow students to work on rhyming words, counting syllables, CVC words and more! With these Halloween activities, also practice sequencing numbers, making five, identifying shapes, and 1 to 1 counting. Set up these Halloween centers during the month of October or your classroom Halloween party!

10 Not So Scary Room on the Broom Halloween Center Activities

Room on the Broom is one of my favorite Halloween read alouds! Throughout the month of October, I introduce a…