Back to School Thematic Unit Plans

Transform your classroom into an exciting and engaging travel-themed environment with our comprehensive "Classroom Decor | Travel Theme | Travel Themed Classroom Decor | Transportation" set! This versatile decor pack includes everything you need to create a vibrant and educational space that inspires curiosity and learning.

Product Highlights:

• Learning Objective on a River Icon: Display your daily learning objectives on a beautifully designed river icon, making it easy for students to see what they will be focusing on each day.
• Word of the Day on a Road: Highlight the word of the day on a road icon, creating a fun and thematic way to introduce new vocabulary.
• Date on a Mountain: Keep track of the date with a striking mountain icon, adding an adventurous touch to your classroom calendar.
• Spelling Words on a Plane: Display spelling words on a colorful plane icon, soaring high and capturing students' attention.
• Phonics on a Pond: Introduce phonics lessons with a serene pond icon, providing a calming and visually appealing focal point.
• Months on Transportation Icons: Each month is represented on a different form of transportation, such as hot air balloons, space crafts, blimps, and more, showcasing the various ways we travel.
• Days of the Week in Different Biomes: Monday through Saturday are depicted in different biomes, illustrating the diverse places we can explore and travel to.
• Time-In Station: Create a calming space for students who need a moment to regroup with a designated time-in station, helping them manage their emotions and stay focused.
• Passport Clip Art: Use the passport clip art to add a touch of authenticity to your travel-themed classroom, perfect for labeling, student projects, and more.

Why This Resource Is Essential:

• Engaging and Thematic: Captures students' imaginations with a travel theme, making the classroom environment more exciting and engaging.
• Organized Learning: Helps keep classroom activities and objectives organized and visually appealing, making it easier for students to stay on track.
• Encourages Curiosity: Inspires curiosity and a love for learning by incorporating diverse biomes and modes of transportation into the classroom decor.
• Supports Emotional Well-Being: Provides a dedicated time-in station for students to calm themselves, promoting a supportive and inclusive classroom environment.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for various grade levels and classroom settings, this decor set can be adapted to fit your unique needs and preferences.

Ideal For:

• Teachers looking to create an engaging and thematic classroom environment.
• Educators aiming to incorporate travel and transportation themes into their lesson plans.
• Parents and caregivers seeking fun and educational decor for homeschooling or playrooms.
• After-school programs and learning centers that want to inspire curiosity and creativity.

How to Use:

• Print and Display: Print the icons and display them around your classroom to create a cohesive travel-themed environment.
• Highlight Learning Objectives: Use the river icon for daily learning objectives, the road icon for the word of the day, and the mountain icon for the date.
• Showcase Lessons: Display spelling words on the plane icon and phonics lessons on the pond icon.
• Organize the Calendar: Represent each month with a different transportation icon and the days of the week in various biomes.
• Create a Time-In Station: Set up a calming space with the time-in station resources to support students' emotional well-being.
• Incorporate Passport Clip Art: Use the passport clip art for labeling, student projects, and adding extra flair to your classroom decor.

Create an adventurous and inspiring classroom with our "Classroom Decor | Travel Theme | Travel Themed Classroom Decor | Transportation" set! This comprehensive decor pack ensures your classroom is organized, engaging, and supportive, providing the perfect environment for students to explore, learn, and grow.

Looking for a fun way to incorporate themed vocabulary into your classroom or homeschool? Use these weekly thematic word work units to introduce new words and practice spelling, handwriting, sentence building, and drawing.

Each week features a different themed picture or pictures, six vocabulary words to learn, and five days of quick, fun activities using those words. Daily activities are numbered to keep the child on track. All units include five weeks of vocabulary work so that in months with four weeks you can choose the themes that best fit your classroom. Also included: black and white versions of all five weeks for easier printing.

This unit is great for a classroom but was developed with homeschoolers in mind. The daily format mimics several homeschool vocabulary programs to make it easy to use alongside older siblings. Pair the themes up with your themed unit studies for added learning! This vocabulary curriculum is geared towards kindergartners or first graders who need some extra vocabulary practice, but can be used by any age that needs to work on handwriting, reading, and sentence building skills.

Each week includes the following:

-Themed Introduction Page - includes a themed picture(s) and the six vocabulary words for the week. Can be laminated for a center to save on ink if using in a classroom!

-Day 1 - match the vocabulary words to their pictures

-Day 2 - trace the vocabulary words

-Day 3 - write the vocabulary words

-Day 4 - finish the sentences with the vocabulary words

-Day 5 Option 1 - copy the sentence and illustrate it

-Day 5 Option 2 - student picks a sentence from Day 4, writes it, and illustrates it

Themes included in the August unit: Pets at Home, Once Upon a Time (fairy tale, knight, fairy, dragon, etc), Apple Season (life cycle of apple tree), Back to School, Getting to School.

Bundle and save! This unit can be found in the Weekly Vocab Full Year Bundle and School Year Bundle at 20% off the price of buying the unit individually!

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Check out my other Weekly Vocabulary units:

August

September

October

November

December

Winter Holidays *Special Edition*

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

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Back To School Adapted Unit

This Back to School Special Education Unit Activities and Lesson Plan for the first week of school or Week One is the perfect back to school bundle for special education. An easy-to-follow lesson plan is included so that all you have to do is print, and your back to school activities are ready to go! This activity bundle includes a book, comprehension, math, vocabulary, cutting, tracing, coloring, and more! Be sure to check out other units available.

Included Back To School Activities:

Math

Seek and Count School Symbols (Levels 1 and 2)

Fill in the blank School Symbols (Levels 1 and 2)

School Patterns (Levels 1 and 2)

Visual Addition (Levels 1 and 2)

Visual Subtraction (Levels 1 and 2)

Reading

Back To School Book (adapted version included)

Vocabulary Cards (Levels 1 and 2)

Vocabulary Tracing (Levels 1 and 2)

Back-To-School Sort (Levels 1 and 2)

Vocabulary Match (Levels 1 and 2)

Book Comprehension (Levels 1 and 2)

Fine Motor

School Supply Match (Levels 1 and 2)

Line Tracing

Back To School Cutting Practice

Back To School Coloring pg. 1

Back To School Coloring pg. 2

This product is part of YEAR LONG HOLIDAY UNIT BUNDLE.

Holidays Included:

1. Back to School
2. Veteran's Day
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
6. Valentine's Day
7. St. Patrick's Day
8. Groundhog Day
9. Summer
10. Columbus Day

What's in a bundle?

• Unit Lesson Plans
• Holiday Book
• Adapted Holiday Book
• Vocabulary Words
• Comprehension Practice
• Tracing
• Matching
• Counting
• Cutting
• Coloring

Each Unit includes a few of the following:

• Patterns
• Adding
• Subtracting
• Money
• Graphing
• More or Less Than
• Shapes

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Your preschool and kindergarten students will love Do-Over Teaching's A is for Apples Unit with games, rhymes, coloring pages, crafts, apple sequencing cards, playdough mats, a bingo game, academic worksheets. Add to your Apple, Fall, Back To School curriculum theme activities.

This unit includes:

Apple Bingo Game

Wriggly Worm Rhyme

Mats for Playdough, Writing and Loose Parts: A is for Apple, T is for Tree

Apple Growing Sequencing Cards

Academics:

Counting Apples

Let's Write Words

A is for Apple

Crafts:

Apple Book

Apple Sewing

Hand Apple Tree

Apple Tree Coloring Page

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Want to try the Weekly Vocabulary Units before you buy? Download this freebie to check out a week of the September Unit! Looking for a fun way to incorporate themed vocabulary into your classroom or homeschool? Use these weekly thematic word work units to introduce new words and practice spelling, handwriting, sentence building, and drawing. Each week features a different themed picture or pictures, six vocabulary words to learn, and five days of quick, fun activities using those words. Daily activities are numbered to keep the student on track and are quick enough to be used as morning work or in a literacy center. All units include five weeks of vocabulary work so that in months with four weeks you can choose the themes that best fit your classroom. Also included: black and white versions of all five weeks for easier printing. This download is for the full color version of the Apple Orchard week in the September unit. To get the other weeks of work for September and/or the black and white version of the Apple Orchard week, check out the September Unit. This unit is great for a classroom but also works perfectly in a homeschool. The daily format mimics several homeschool vocabulary programs to make it easy to use alongside older siblings. Pair the themes up with your themed unit studies for added learning! Each week includes the following: -Themed Introduction Page - includes a themed picture(s) and the six vocabulary words for the week. Can be laminated for a center to save on ink! -Day 1 - match the vocabulary words to their pictures -Day 2 - trace the vocabulary words -Day 3 - write the vocabulary words -Day 4 - finish the sentences with the vocabulary words -Day 5 Option 1 - copy the sentence and illustrate it -Day 5 Option 2 - student picks a sentence from Day 4, writes it, and illustrates it ***************************************************************************** Check out my other Weekly Vocabulary units: August September October - Coming Soon November - Coming Soon December - Coming Soon January - Coming Soon February - Coming Soon March - Coming Soon April - Coming Soon May - Coming Soon June - Coming Soon July - Coming Soon ***************************************************************************** Before you go... Follow me to be the first to know about discounts, sales, and new products! Get credit to use on your next purchase • Leave feedback for any purchases you've made and TeachShare will give you a credit toward your next purchase! Plus, feedback helps me make better products tailored to what my customers are looking for. *****************************************************************************

Bring reading, writing, and a love of vocabulary to your students! Introduce fun, new, thematic vocabulary words with this packet of Back to School themed vocabulary/spelling word work worksheets. These make a great supplement to beginning of the school year activities or as a way to introduce school themed vocabulary to new students!

This word work packet includes 2 sets of worksheets featuring words from our Back to School Vocabulary/Word Wall Cards. Each worksheet set comes with 10 different types of worksheets, most in differentiated levels. This gives you 20 different activities and more than 55 worksheets! There are a few tracing versions of the worksheets included as a bonus for students who need review or for homeschooling families where younger siblings want to play along!

What's Included?

2 sets of the following:

-Write the Words - includes five versions to meet students where they are

-Alphabetical Order - includes four versions, one is a cut & paste

-Word Search

-Syllable Sort - includes two versions, one is a cut & paste

-Write the Plural

-Unscramble the Words

-Write and Draw - includes two versions

-Spinner Games - includes three versions

-Dice Games - includes three versions

-Write It 3 Ways - includes two versions for students to write with pencil, pen, and marker

**Purchase of the Back to School Vocabulary/Word Wall Cards is not required for this packet. The packet works as a stand alone product, but the Word Wall Cards are a nice addition to the packet and a great way to introduce the words used in the packet**

Look for other word work sets that match our word wall cards coming soon!

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Looking for a fun way to incorporate themed vocabulary into your classroom or homeschool? Use these weekly thematic word work units to introduce new words and practice spelling, handwriting, sentence building, and drawing.

Each week features a different themed picture or pictures, six vocabulary words to learn, and five days of quick, fun activities using those words. Daily activities are numbered to keep the student on track and are quick enough to be used as morning work or in a literacy center. All units include five weeks of vocabulary work so that in months with four weeks you can choose the themes that best fit your classroom. Also included: black and white versions of all five weeks for easier printing.

This unit is great for a classroom but was developed with homeschoolers in mind. The daily format mimics several homeschool vocabulary programs to make it easy to use alongside older siblings. Pair the themes up with your themed unit studies for added learning! This vocabulary curriculum is geared towards kindergartners or first graders who need some extra vocabulary practice, but can be used by any age that needs to work on handwriting, reading, and sentence building skills.

Each week includes the following:

-Themed Introduction Page - includes a themed picture(s) and the six vocabulary words for the week. Can be laminated for a center to save on ink if using in a classroom!

-Day 1 - match the vocabulary words to their pictures

-Day 2 - trace the vocabulary words

-Day 3 - write the vocabulary words

-Day 4 - finish the sentences with the vocabulary words

-Day 5 Option 1 - copy the sentence and illustrate it

-Day 5 Option 2 - student picks a sentence from Day 4, writes it, and illustrates it

Themes included in the September unit: The Apple Orchard, School Supplies, Ahoy Matey (Pirates), In the Classroom, How to Make an Apple Pie

Bundle and save! This unit can be found in the Weekly Vocab Full Year Bundle and School Year Bundle at 20% off the price of buying the unit individually!

Want to try before you buy? Check out the Apple Orchard Vocabulary FREEBIE

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Check out my other Weekly Vocabulary units:

August

September

October

November

December

Winter Holidays *Special Edition*

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

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