5 Fun Favorite Activites for the First Week of School

As back to school season draws near, I know you're already 

thinking about your first week of school.  What can I do

to make my new class comfortable?  How can we all get 

to know each other? Where can I snag a snapshot of 

everybody's ability level?
But the biggest question is 

How can I make our first week FUN?

Here are 5 of my favorites to make sure you

have a FULL first week of FUN!

Break the Ice With 
You're Finally Here!

Break the ice by making them laugh
with the MOST perfect first day book ever, You're Finally Here!

by Melanie Watt.  Set the premise that you've been waiting 

and waiting and waiting for them to arrive!

Hilarious activities, games, crafts, roam the rooms 

and writing opportunities will have your kids giggling and 

laughing to break the ice in no time! 

Find the You're Finally Here! First Week Activities  pack I use.

Check out last year's post to see our first week of school 

with  You're Finally Here!

Purchase the book from IndigoBooks 

Getting to Know You With Math

Send home a math autobiography the first day of school
so parents can help their student gather math related
information about themselves!

Students then use their math information to write math
related sentences, word problems, and drawings to describe
themselves using math!

These make a really fun (and standards based!) display for

your Back to School Night or beginning of the year open house!

Find the Math About Me resource I used.

Set Goals for the New School Year

Another of my favorite first week activities are these little 

goal setting guys and gals. 

We make these Go for the Goal sort-of-self-portraits 

and display them all year. 

This year they're wearing Olympic medals 

that say Go for the Goal!

This one looks EXACTLY like the child who made it.

And I love her goal for the year!

This one is my all-time favorite!

"My goal is to skip 2 grades so I can be a fourth grader."

Set Up A First Day Photo Booth

Capture memories on the first day of school with a first day 

photo booth!  This adorable chalkboard photo booth

from Simply Kinder an be used for PreK-5th grade!

If Superheroes are your style, check out this fun  

Superhero themed photo booth set with signs to use 

on the first AND/OR last day! 

Use the editable card template included to send home 

a first day picture and message that your parents will treasure!

Play A Get To Know Your 

Teacher Game 

Help your new class get to know you by posting 

answers about yourselfall around the room. 

 The questions are on the students' answer sheet!

I've done this really fun All About My Teacher roam the room 

from Angie Neal at Fall Into First for a several years now

 and my class always loves it! Angie's bee theme

 and her brand new firsties are adorable!

The file is completely editable so you can make up 

your own questions on the student page and make 

answer cards to post around the room.

Get them up and moving as they roam the room trying to

find and match the questions to the answers on their page!

You can have a lot of fun with this! 

(I've been 29 for several years now ha! ha!) 

And of course, in case they couldn't already tell, 

by our blue classroom decor my favorite color is blue!

Those are my top 5 favorite first week of school activities!

I hope you've found something you can use to
save you some time and plan a full week of fun!

For even more ideas head over to my
Back To School board on Pinterest.

Find @aroundthekampfire on Instagram and follow along!