Best-Ever Back-to-School Activities: 50 Winning & Welcoming Activities, Strategies, & Tips That Save You Time & Get Your School Year Off to a Sensational Start [Paperback]

Elaine Israel (Compiler)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2001

Starting the school year is a cinch with this amazing resource packed with getting-to-know-you activities, management tips, ice-breaker games, mini-books, bulletin-board ideas, poems, super ideas for the very first day, perfect read-alouds, and much much more! Includes helpful pointers for establishing classroom routines. For use with Grades K-2.

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Educators know the first few days and weeks of school set the tone for the rest of the year. Teachers with a full repertoire of games, exercises, books, and daily routines will be primed to take on the new school year with gusto! The 50 activities, strategies, and tips found in this book will help save time and get the year off to a terrific start. First-day icebreakers, getting-to-know-you activities, collaborative class books, poems, miniplays, bulletin board ideas, name games, read-alouds, songs, fun surprises, and more are included in this dynamic workbook. In one activity, each child calculates the "value" of her or his own name, using a chart that assigns a price to each letter of the alphabet (A equals one cent, B equals two cents, C equals three cents, etc.). Students then answer a series of questions, including "Whose name costs the most?" "Can you think of the names that would cost exactly 75 cents?" "What is the least expensive name you can think of?" Kids sharpen their math skills while they learn their classmates' names. Packed with useful pointers and creative reproducibles, and organized logically and clearly, this book may very well be a teacher's "best ever" back-to-school resource. For other fine related titles, don't miss Quick Tips: 101 Surefire Ways to Start the School Year and Fresh & Fun: September. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author

Elaine Israel is a writer and editor who specializes in materials for teachers and students. She was the founding editor of Creative Classroom magazine and edits The World Almanac for Kids. Among the many books she has edited for Scholastic are Get a Grant: Yes You Can! and Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Teaching Resources (August 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439304628
• ISBN-13: 978-0439304627
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #713,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Back To School Ideas Found Here!, August 8, 2001

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This review is from: Best-Ever Back-to-School Activities: 50 Winning & Welcoming Activities, Strategies, & Tips That Save You Time & Get Your School Year Off to a Sensational Start (Paperback)

This book makes getting ready for back to school classroom activities a snap. These 50 activities, strategies, and tips save you time and get your school year off on the right foot! In fact, this book contains first day welcoming activities, getting to know you icebreakers, back to school mini books, bulletin board ideas, perfect poems, and suggestions of books to read on the first day. I enjoy the eight ready to use activity sheets. Two of my favorite sheets include the classroom treasure hunt and the Old Friends, New Friends mini-play. The poems and riddles in this book are great and useful during the first few days of a new school year. This book is a good price for what you get. I wouldn't say it is the best back to school book. The best one I have seen was way over 10 dollars. Still, it is a good buy and contains many good ideas that I am sure any k-2 teacher would be thrilled to use!