Back to School/ First Day Activities

"Stuck is a hilarious little story about a boy, Floyd, who gets his kite stuck up in a tree. The story follows Floyd in his not-so-logical thinking around how to get the kite down." ~from goodreads Engage and support your students in the joy of reading...

This is a story about a girl who moves to a new place and all the things she brings with her. This is a good book to introduce geography, history, identity, immigration. Engage and support your students in the joy of reading literature with these 12...

The book, What Do You Do With a Problem shows how a problem can be an opportunity, if we look close enough. Engage and support your students in the joy of reading literature with these 12 digital and no prep book study companion activities. Activities...

What Do You Do With An Idea tells about an idea and how one boy brought the idea into the world. Engage and support your students in the joy of reading literature with these 12 digital and no prep book study companion activities. Activities...

You Get What You Get is a story about a boy named Melvin and how he learns to deal with disappointment and not throw fits. Engage and support your students in the joy of reading literature with these 12 digital and no prep book study companion...

Your students will love this middle school resource for back to school that includes 'get to know you' and math activities for those first few days of math class. Your download includes a link to a digital,...

Teach your students important social emotional skills with engaging social dilemmas and graphic organizers. Lessons are digital and no prep. There are 36 dilemmas, enough to do one per week throughout a school year. Dilemma categories include Where to...

A behavior management system that visually shows expected classroom behaviors. The system uses 8 color posters to depict 4 mode pairs: talk time/silent time, chat time/topic time, break mode/work mode, and relax mode/listening mode. How to Get Help...

These 10 social-emotional learning (SEL) warm-ups are no-prep daily mini-lessons that focus on the life skill of Transitions. This lesson pack includes videos, audio, graphic organizers, problem-solving and strategy building, and self-reporting and...

This digital social story teaches learners about different types of family units such as single and two-parent families, blended families, and adoptive or foster families. The format of this social story follows the Carol Gray 10.2 Criteria. There is...

This digital social story teaches learners about different types of holidays that take place during the winter and include Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule and the New Year. The format of this social story follows the Carol Gray 10.2 Criteria. There is...

This is just the resource you need to make an engaging back-to-school, end-of-term or end-of-year (diagnostic) assessment. The pack includes 21 multi-skill activities, focusing on listening and an assortment...