2nd Grade Back to School Google Apps

Are you a passionate educator looking for innovative ways to create a positive, engaging learning environment? Enhance your classroom management and build a culture of respect and academic excellence with The Essential 55 by Ron Clark. This transformative book will revolutionize your approach to classroom behavior and help foster a thriving learning environment.
As a companion to the book—and perhaps the workbook—this resource offers editable Canva slides that can be used with students, parents, and even shared on your school’s social media. It's a powerful tool to extend the impact of The Essential 55 across your entire school community.

How It Works:

• Focus on one rule each day, following the sequential order of Ron Clark’s 55 rules.
• Use the slides in various ways: print them to send home to parents weekly, display them in your classroom as a guide, or share them on your school or classroom’s social media page to keep families engaged.
• You can also project the slides on your smartboard to teach, model, and reinforce each rule in your classroom every week.

Each slide features one of Ron Clark’s essential rules alongside a relevant image, helping to visually reinforce the concept. The slides are fully editable, allowing you to customize them to fit your school’s specific needs. You can even swap out the default images with pictures of your own students demonstrating the rule in action.

This resource is designed to be flexible and adaptable, making it easy to integrate The Essential 55 into your classroom or school culture. Whether you're looking to involve parents, enhance classroom discussions, or share the rules across your school’s social platforms, these slides offer a seamless way to keep the rules front and center.
Make The Essential 55 an integral part of your teaching toolkit and watch as your students rise to the challenge of excellence!

The topics and what is included:

• 56 pages of editable Canva Templates.
• Diverse, beautiful pictures.
• One rule per slide.

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Kids will LOVE this pack of 30 Days of Silly STEM Building Challenge Task Cards based on silly stories! There is a printable PDF, as well as Google Slides perfect for distance learning and back to school. Pair these problem solving cards with the STEAM / STEM activities and use them in a variety of ways. Use them in Makerspaces, morning tubs or centers, as an activity for early finishers, or rewards for a great day!

**Perfect for classrooms, distance learning, homeschool, and even parents just looking for a fun, adventure filled activity for their children.**

⭐ This is Set #1. You can purchase the Bundle of 90 days, all 3 available sets, for 20% off here: BUNDLE of 90 Days STEAM | STEM Silly Challenge Task Cards Distance Learning

Distance Learning Compatible: This product can be downloaded as a printable PDF or copied into Google Slides. This will allow you to send the product to your students as an editable document. Download as a PowerPoint to upload to Microsoft Teams.

What’s included in the 21 page PDF download, as well as the 38 Google Slides:

PDF

• 7 pages of 30 unique full color challenge task cards
• 2 STEAM / STEM worksheets in full color for early and upper elementary
• Instructions Page
• Terms of Use
• Black and white copies of the instructions, task cards, and STEM / STEAM printables

Google Slides

• 30 Individual Google Slides for each daily challenge
• 5 STEM / STEAM slides for discussion, with space to type in responses to the questions
• Instructions
• Terms of Use

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How can you use these task cards?

• Have the task cards available in makerspaces, centers, tubs, busy boxes, morning baskets, or available for early finishers to complete using ANY available materials. Students can even draw their creations instead of building them!

• Use one card a day during morning time. Have students fill out a STEAM / STEM worksheet or discuss and use the Google Slides as a class.

• Use them for public speaking practice. Allow students to build and then show and tell with the class or their parents. They can discuss what they made, liked, what they would improve, and how it solved the problem on the task cards. They can practice speaking and listening skills, using loud and clear voices, and giving full attention to the speaker. Encourage students to ask questions to their classmates.

• Ideally the goal is to do one challenge a day, but you could certainly allow students to do more than one.

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Why do I think you will love this product, and what makes my challenge set unique?

I love silly stories that bring humor and adventure to life for kids, but also that force them to use their imaginations in fun and exciting ways. This challenge task set does exactly that through the loose wacky stories where they are the main character. Silly scenarios, adventure and disaster, problem solving, and learning, are all part of the experience when building these challenges.

Most building challenge task cards are independent from each other. “Build a boat,” or “build an airplane,” are common themes among the cards. While those are fantastic, and we have done many of them ourselves, I wanted to do something different and more cohesive and engaging for kids.

The only rule is to HAVE FUN and allow those imaginations to soar!

**Please note that while the intent is for these to be independent, early readers may need some assistance in reading the cards.**

**This is not an editable document.**

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Each of the four Who What Where When Why Differentiated Worksheets comes with a digital WH question version of the story. Students will read the Fall&Autum, Back to School, Thanksgiving, and Halloween-themed short stories and then answer the Who What Where When Why guided questions.

In the differentiated worksheets, students have the option to fill in the answers or choose from multiple-choice options. The Google Slides digital version has audio support for questions and answers, multiple-choice answers, and self-checking.

This resource includes:

• 1 Back to School-themed (September) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)
• 1 Halloween-themed (October) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)
• 1 Thanksgiving-themed (November) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)
• 1 Fall & Autumn-themed (also found in the four seasons bundle) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)

Common Core State Standards: RL.2.1

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Dive deep into your grammar practice with back to school companion task cards activities! With 112 task cards for nouns, verbs, and sentences task cards has your back to school practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of back to school task cards for your grammar stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional grammar task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of nouns, verbs, and sentences task cards has multiple levels of your beginning of the year grammar practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 back to school sentence types and structures task cards

✅ 36 back to school verb tense, type, and usage task cards

✅ 40 back to school nouns and pronouns task cards

All the back to school nouns, verbs, and sentences task cards task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these grammar skills:

• possessive nouns

• common and proper nouns

• spelling changes for plural nouns

• irregular plural nouns

• noun and pronoun agreement

• verb tense

• irregular verbs

• subject-verb agreement

• linking and helping verbs

• types of sentences

• subject and predicate

How to prepare the back to school nouns, verbs, and sentences task cards task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Back to school grammar task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a grammar station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

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Introducing our Directed Drawing Calendar for 2025—a unique, editable calendar featuring engaging drawings and educational activities.✨

✨Perfect for teachers and high school students, this resource seamlessly combines creativity and functionality.

⭐Key Features:

• Editable Calendar with Drawings: Customize your year.
• Printable Directed Drawing Activities: Monthly fun and learning.
• Seasonal Directed Drawing: Engage with seasonal drawings.
• Back to School Drawing: Start the year with exciting prompts.
• Educational Drawing Activities: Foster creativity and thinking.
• Step-by-Step Drawing: Easy for all skill levels.
• Printable Calendar Prompts: Stay organized monthly.
• Versatile Resource: Ideal for any educational setting.

⭐What's Included:

• Monthly Calendars: Plan your year with our detailed 2025 calendar
• Coloring Pages: Relax and unwind with beautiful illustrations.
• Directed Drawings: Explore your creativity with fun animal drawings.
• Writing Space: Jot down notes, ideas, or reminders.
• Bonus 2026 Calendar: Plan ahead for the upcoming year.
• Educational and Fun: Combine learning and creativity.

♥This resource includes:

• 1 Print-Ready PDF File.
• 1 PPTX Format File.
• 1 Google Slides Format File.
• Terms Of Use Text.
• Terms Of Use and Credits PDF File.
• Preview PDF File.

♥♥♥ TERMS OF USE ♥♥♥

EduEnrich products are intended for personal use only. They cannot be used in any other products, given away as freebies, or distributed in any format. If you wish to share this product with other teachers, please purchase additional licenses.

Engage your students and make 2025 a year of creativity and learning with our Directed Drawing Coloring Calendar.

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This set of 180 picture writing prompts inspires daily creativity and excitement in your students. These quick writes build writing skills through describing and inferring 180 engaging photos. Perfect for daily journaling, morning meeting activities, literacy centers, morning work and more! Encourage descriptive storytelling, expand vocabulary and boost critical thinking as students create quick narratives from diverse images all year long!

What's Included:

• 180 Pictures (1 for each school day) with "who? what? where? when? why?" Guiding Questions.

Uses:

• morning writing
• journaling
• creative writing class
• ELA
• literacy centers
• small group
• whole group
• homework writing assignments
• collaborative writing
• quick writing prompts
• paragraph writing practice
• extensions for GT, or accelerated learners
• teaching writing skills (Leads, paragraphs, grammar, editing)
• substitute activities
• and much more!

Click HERE to see other writing resources!

*Note this product may be used in brick an mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.

Simple, easy to use desk plates for your students. There are 3 different options along with a color word chart, 100 chart, and a 120 chart. I've also included a google slide template so you can add it to your digital classroom!

Introducing English ESL EAL ELL resource bundle to help review basic questions with students. This is a great way to get to know your students as you have many low prep templates and engaging activities. Play 4 corners to learn students' preferences or interview a classmate.

Resource 1:

Students can interview their classmates to get extra speaking practice. Next they can either write about the classmate or about themselves with several templates to pick from (All about me!). Finally there are 24 personal basic profiles given with 3 suggested games and activities for more speaking practice with personal questions (i.e. How old are you? What is your favorite pastime?).

In addition to the pre-designed templates, there are blank options which gives more flexibility to stronger classes. There are 22 interview questions included which students can use for support while writing a paragraph.

Included:

-Four template formats including smartphone, retro signs, basic style or pennant flag

-A list of 22 basic questions - this allows students to pick their own sentences or it could be used for an interview

-Blank templates that allow for more personalized sentences

-Additional templates to write about a classmate

-Twenty questions handout

-Twenty-four basic personal profiles and suggested activities and games

-Bonus activity : Guess who ? Students write 8 clues and classmates have to

guess who it is...

Resource 2:

This ESL Four Corners activity helps to encourage conversation while expanding core vocabulary. This interactive icebreaker combines language learning and fun, making it a perfect way to introduce your students to each other and the French language. Students will actively participate by choosing from four options and discussing their preferences. Extra templates are included so that students can make their own slide to share with the class the next day.

Included:

- Teacher overview

-New vocabulary with engaging images

-Over 30 suggestions for "Questions du Jour" or "Quatre coins"

-Writing idea for students

Vocabulary:

Present tense verbs/limited conditional

basic vocabulary for hobbies, sports, clothing, food, and personal preferences

Resource 3:

This is a back to school English Second Language ESL art resource to help build a class community with students. Get to know your students as they write about themselves with this low prep activity. Students are also encourage to add color, symbols and sketches to these "All about me" posters. This resource is great way to decorate your classroom or bulletin board.

-Three puzzle options:

-Individual puzzle (four pieces) "All about me!" with sentence suggestions for beginner ESL students - 2 language level options

-Larger piece for more open ended writing/art or an individual heart puzzle

-Bonus mandala bookmark template included for the early finishers.

Bulletin Board Display:

-Class community puzzle display on bulletin board with sign "We all fit together!" Each student designs a unique puzzle piece to add to the class display.

-Large printable letters "We all fit together" (18 black and white pennant style/18 colored pennant flags)

Please note: When printing this document in Google Slides (to make letters smaller) go to print preview and click on "handouts per slide". You will download the "handout" slides as a pdf to make smaller colored letters for the bulletin board if desired.

** Please note that the writing and images on this Google slide resource have been flattened and secured to protect my work (therefore not editable). As with every Google slide, buyers can add text boxes to write their own information or insert images.**

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Grade 2: This first week of school activities pack for 2nd grade includes everything you'll need to establish a positive classroom climate and informally assess your students' writing abilities and self-confidence in second grade!

The summer mini-book, back-to-school glyph, first-of-the-year flip book, STEM challenge, and interest inventory are sure to help you understand your new class of students in no time and will also help students get to know each other!

These activities were specifically designed for 2nd grade, but there are also First Week of School Activities products available for 1st grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade in my TeachShare store!

PLEASE NOTE: The glyph in the printable file is DIFFERENT from the glyph in the Google Slides™ version due to the restrictions on using moveable clip art in Google activities.

This back-to-school activities product includes the following activities:

• Puzzle Quilt Bulletin Board - "We Fit Right In!"
• Summer Mini-book (students trace the first two words on each page and then complete the prompt on their own)
• STEM Challenge
• Back to School Flip Book
• Friendly Letter Template
• Letter to my 2nd Grade Teacher
• Interest Inventory
• Back to School Glyph
• 2nd Grade Bucket List Activity

All the activities in this First Week of School Activity Pack start the year on a positive note! Please see the thumbnails and preview for a sample and photos of the activities.

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Would you like to send a letter home to your parents and students at the beginning and end of the year? These heartfelt letters from the teacher will surely convey your genuine passion for teaching!

• BACK TO SCHOOL LETTER TO PARENTS AND TO STUDENTS
• END OF YEAR LETTER TO PARENTS AND TO STUDENTS

Get the bundle at a discount here:

• LETTERS FROM THE TEACHER: BACK-TO-SCHOOL AND END-OF-YEAR LETTERS TO STUDENTS AND PARENTS

Back to School Activity Packs for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade:

• FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 1ST GRADE
• FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 2ND GRADE
• FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 3RD GRADE
• FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 4TH GRADE
• FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 5TH GRADE

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Take your early elementary morning meetings to an exciting new level! with these True or False Morning Meeting Slides or Morning Meeting Games for the fall or autumn season. Watch your students eagerly participate, build their knowledge, and develop essential critical thinking skills.

These slides can be used throughout the day, not just during Morning meetings. The slides can be used as a brain break or as a game! There is a 30-second timer on each true or false question that can be used for a game mode.

You will present one slide with a true or false question with a background picture that matches the question. Students will answer the true or false and then press the slide again and another slide will pop up that will state the true or false answer with another picture matching the question and a video linked to explain the answer or a funny video related to the question.

How is this different than other morning meeting slides or games?

• Diverse autumn picture backgrounds that go with each question instead of the same blank background.

• Linked Youtube videos to every true or false answer slide.

• A timer to use if you play a game with your class.

• EDITABLE (You can delete and insert your own videos or questions)

This opportunity will engage, inspire, and revolutionize your classroom. Don't miss out on unlocking the magic of engagement with your class!

The topics and what is included:

• 23 True or False Question Slides

• 23 Answer Slides

• Videos linked to answer slides

• Backgrounds with real and diverse pictures.

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Keep your homophones practice fresh with seasonal task cards activities! With 80 task cards for your Back to School and Fall homophones practice and review will stay engaging for the whole quarter! You'll have a fresh set of vocabulary task cards for stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional vocabulary task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of Back to School and Fall homophones task cards has your 1st Quarter homophones practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 40 Back to School homophones task cards

✅ 40 Fall homophones task cards

All the homophones task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.
• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.
• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.
• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.
• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

How to prepare the Back to School and Fall homophones task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Seasonal homophones task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.
• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a language arts station.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.
• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers
• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).
• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

Nonfiction Text Structures Anchor Charts & Task Cards - Reading Skill Activities

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This French FSL resource bundle helps to review basic questions with French students. This is a great way to get to know your students as you have many low prep templates and engaging activities to pick from. Play 4 corners to learn students' preferences or interview a classmate.

Resource 1:

Students can interview their classmates to get extra speaking practice. Next they can either write about the classmate (Tout sur ____) or about themselves with several templates to pick from (Tout sur moi!). Finally there are 24 personal basic profiles given with 3 suggested games and activities for more speaking practice with personal questions (i.e. How old are you? What is your favorite pastime?).

In addition to the pre-designed templates, there are blank options which gives more flexibility to stronger classes. There are 22 interview questions included which students can use for support while writing a paragraph. There is a simplified version.

Included:

-Four template formats including smartphone, retro signs, basic style or pennant flag

-A list of 22 basic questions (with English for support) - this allows students to pick their own sentences or it could be used for an interview

-Blank templates that allow for more personalized sentences

-Additional templates to write about a classmate

-Twenty questions handout (with English support)

-Twenty-four basic personal profiles and suggested activities and games

-Bonus activity : Guess who ? Students write 8 clues and classmates have to

guess who it is...

Resource 2:

This French (FSL) Four Corners activity helps to encourage conversation while expanding core vocabulary. This interactive icebreaker combines language learning and fun, making it a perfect way to introduce your students to each other and the French language. Students will actively participate by choosing from four options and discussing their preferences. Extra templates are included so that students can make their own slide to share with the class the next day.

Included:

- Teacher overview

-New vocabulary with engaging images

-Over 30 suggestions for "Questions du Jour" or "Quatre coins"

-Writing idea for students

Vocabulary:

Present tense verbs/limited conditional

basic vocabulary for hobbies, sports, clothing, food, and personal preferences

Resource 3:

This is a back to school French FSL art resource to help build a class community with students. Get to know your students as they write about themselves with this low prep activity. Students are also encourage to add color, symbols and sketches to these "Tout sur moi!" or "Me Voici" posters. This resource is great way to decorate your classroom or bulletin board.

-Three puzzle options:

-Individual puzzle (four pieces) "Tout sur moi!" with sentence suggestions for beginner French students - 2 language level options

-Larger piece for more open ended writing/art or an individual heart puzzle

-Bonus mandala bookmark template included for the early finishers.

Bulletin Board Display:

-Class community puzzle display on bulletin board with sign "On est bien ensemble!" Each student designs a unique puzzle piece to add to the class display.

-Large printable letters "On est bien ensemble!" (18 black and white pennant style/18 colored pennant flags)

** Please note that the writing and images on this Google slide resource have been flattened and secured to protect my work (therefore not editable). As with every Google slide, buyers can add text boxes to write their own information or insert images.**

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Please note: You MUST USE ADOBE READER to edit the editable fields in these files (the greeting and closing fields).

PLEASE NOTE THAT BOTH OF THESE FILES INCLUDE A SPECIAL 2020 LETTER TO ADDRESS EDUCATION CHANGES AS A RESULT OF THE CORONAVIRUS. COVID-19 WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO IMPACT THE WAYS WE DELIVER INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS AND THESE LETTERS ADDRESS THAT UNCERTAINTY.

NOTE: The body of these letters ARE NOT EDITABLE. The only editable fields on these letters are the greeting and signature fields. If you are looking for a letter with an editable body, these letters are NOT for you!

Please read the description for each product below:

BACK TO SCHOOL LETTERS FROM THE TEACHER:

This welcome back to school product includes a letter that teachers can send home to parents as well as a letter that teachers can send home with students. Each letter comes in a variety of border choices and black-and-white versions.

• The letter to parents comes with a boy or girl version (the pronouns are changed throughout the letter to reflect a male student or a female student). This letter has three color background options as well the corresponding backgrounds in black and white.

• The letter to students comes with three color background options as well as the corresponding backgrounds and clip art in black and white. Note: This letter does not require a boy/girl option since the teacher is using the pronouns "you" and "I" throughout the letter.

• The new letters that have been added for 2020 can be found in the BEGINNING of the product file. You will find them on the first six pages following the instructions for editing the text boxes in the greeting and signature fields.

All versions of each letter have editable text boxes in the Greeting Field and the Signature Field. You can edit these two places on each letter, if you choose. If you'd like to print the letters as is, you may write in the student's name and your own signature. Just for reference, the font is Miss Kindergarten by Kimberly Geswein and the size is 14. THE BODY OF THE LETTERS ARE NOT EDITABLE.

BOTH LETTERS ARE ORIGINAL! I have NOT copied a letter that I found online and retyped it. This is important because you may want to mix things up and send a new letter home this year.

If you have any questions about this product, please ask prior to purchasing. If you aren't sure how to edit text boxes, I've included a page of instructions at the beginning of the product for your convenience.

END-OF-YEAR LETTER TO STUDENTS AND PARENTS:

AN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL 2020 VERSION OF THESE LETTERS HAS BEEN ADDED to account for the changes that occurred in the 2020 school year due to the COVID crisis. These letters make note of the fact that your school year ended early unexpectedly due to the coronavirus.

You will also find a GOOGLE Slides option so that you can send paperless letters remotely (via email or through Google). Look at the final page of the GOOGLE SLIDES FILE for instructions on sending these end of year letters remotely!

NOTE: The body of these letters are NOT EDITABLE. If you want a letter that you can edit, this is NOT the product for you. The greeting and signature field are the ONLY customizable portions of this product.

These editable (the greeting and signature fields are the ONLY editable portion of the letters) end of year letters to students and parents include an encouraging letter that teachers can send home to parents as well as a letter that teachers can send home with students (each letter contains a different message and is ORIGINAL).

The letter to parents comes with a boy or girl version (the pronouns are changed throughout the letter to reflect a male student or a female student). This letter has three color background options as well as similar backgrounds in black and white.

The letter to students comes with three color background options as well as the corresponding backgrounds in black and white. Note: This letter does not require a boy/girl option since the teacher is using the pronouns "you" and "I" throughout the letter.

All versions of each letter have editable text boxes in the Greeting Field and the Signature Field. You can edit these two places on each letter, if you choose. If you'd like to print the letters as is, you may write in the student's name and your own signature. Just for reference, the font is Miss Kindergarten by Kimberly Geswein.

AGAIN, THE BODY OF THE LETTER IS NOT EDITABLE!

ALL THE LETTERS ARE ORIGINAL! I did NOT copy a letter that I found online and retype it. This is important because you may want to mix things up and send a new letter home this year.

If you have any questions about this product, please ask prior to purchasing. If you aren't sure how to edit text boxes, I've included a page of instructions at the beginning of the product for your convenience.

Here are the links to each individual file:

BACK TO SCHOOL LETTER TO PARENTS AND BACK TO SCHOOL LETTER TO STUDENTS

END OF YEAR LETTER TO PARENTS AND END OF YEAR LETTER TO STUDENTS

Do you need first week of school activities by grade level? Check out these back to school activity packs!

FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 1ST GRADE

FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 2ND GRADE

FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 3RD GRADE

FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 4TH GRADE

FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR 5TH GRADE

These corresponding end of year activity packs are also available for each grade level:

END OF YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR 1ST GRADE

END OF YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR 2ND GRADE

END OF YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR 3RD GRADE

END OF YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR 4TH GRADE

END OF YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR 5TH GRADE

Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts as well as their minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

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Dive deep into your prefixes and suffixes practice with back to school companion task cards activities! With 72 task cards for affixes your beginning of the year practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of back to school task cards for your vocabulary stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional prefixes and suffixes task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of prefixes and suffixes task cards has multiple levels of your affixes vocabulary practice covered. 

All the back to school prefixes and suffixes task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these affixes:

Level 1

• re-
• un-
• dis-
• non-
• pre-
• in-
• im-
• -er
• -est
• -ful
• -y
• -less

Level 2

• under-
• non-
• over-
• mid-
• bi-
• multi-
• tri-
• super-
• mis-
• semi-
• sub-
• tele-
• inter-
• -y
• -tion
• -ness
• -ly
• -ment
• -er
• -or
• -able
• -ship
• -ist
• -less
• -ence
• -ism
• -an
• -logy
• -ible
• -ance

How to prepare the back to school prefixes and suffixes task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Back to school prefixes and suffixes task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a vocabulary station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

Nonfiction Text Structures Anchor Charts & Task Cards - Reading Skill Activities

Vocabulary Building Task Cards - Back to School Practice and Review Activities

Back to School Homophones Task Cards - 3rd Grade Vocabulary Review Activity

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This time capsule project activity is a digital and/or printable resource that is a perfect way to welcome your students back to school, celebrate New Year 2024, or the end of the school year! It also works perfectly as an after-state testing activity!

It was created for first-grade, second-grade, third-grade, or fourth-graders.

These time capsule activities are also perfect for All About Me activities at the beginning, the end of the year, or New Year's Eve activities, as they provide everything you need for a snapshot of your students' lives!

This Time Capsule product contains the following items:

• How to Use this Packet
• Covers- Time Capsule and All About Me
• The Basics
• Snapshot of the U.S.A.
• This is Me! (Boy and Girl Version)
• My Family
• Best and Worst Thing
• Things I Love
• My Future
• This is How I Feel
• A Typical Saturday
• Filling My Brain
• The Size of My Hand
• The Size of My Foot
• World News
• A Letter to Myself
• A Letter to a Loved One
• Newspaper Article
• Autobiography
• That’s Funny!
• Ten Adjectives
• Being a Kid
• Responsibilities

These are a few ideas that are included as part of the packet:

1. Use this packet as a beginning or end of the year ALL ABOUT ME or TIME CAPSULE unit.

• Each student can make a book and use the ALL ABOUT ME or TIME CAPSULE cover.
• Pick and choose which pages to use at different times during the year.
• Use the worksheets at literacy stations as they fit into your lessons.
• Use the completed booklet as Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gifts from students.

2. Use this packet as a TIME CAPSULE activity.

• Each student can make a book and use the TIME CAPSULE cover.
• Choose which pages to use for the time capsule as a long-term activity.
• Roll up the pages and place them in a canister (Pringles canisters covered in paperwork well) for a time capsule container.
• Establish the length of time students should wait to reopen their time capsule.

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The digital portion instructions appear at the end of the packet.

Dive deep on your 3-digit addtion and subtraction with regrouping practice with Back to School companion task cards activities! With 72 task cards for 3-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping your Back to School practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Back to School task cards for your addition and subtraction stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional 3-digit addition and subtraction task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of school themed 3-digit addition and subtraction task cards has your math practice covered. Includes addition with regrouping, break apart to add, adding more than 2 addends, estimating addition, subtraction with regrouping, and subtracting across zero.

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 back to school 3-digit addition with regrouping task cards

✅ 36 back to school 3-digit subtraction with regrouping task cards

All the Back to School 3-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.
• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.
• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.
• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.
• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these 3-digit computation skills:

• estimating addition
• break apart strategy for addition
• addition with regrouping
• addition involving more than 2 addends
• estimating subtraction of 3-digits
• subtraction with regrouping for 3-digit numbers
• flip and add to check for accuracy
• regrouping to subtract across zero

How to prepare the Back to School 3-digit addition and subtraction task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Back to School 3-digit addition and subtraction task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.
• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a math station activity.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.
• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.
• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers
• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).
• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

3 Digit Addition - Math Games, Practice Activities, Review Worksheets, Lessons

3 Digit Subtraction -Math Games, Practice Activities, Review Worksheets, Lessons

3rd Grade Math Anchor Charts + Interactive Math Notebook - All Year Visual Tool

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Permission granted to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Dive deep in your 3rd grade multiplication practice with Back to School companion task cards activities! With 136 task cards for introducing beginning multiplication, one step multiplication word problems, and mixed multiplication facts your Back to School practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! Whether your class is working on multiplication fact fluency or problem solving by using arrays, you'll have a fresh set of school themed task cards for your 3rd grade multiplication stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional multiplication task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of back to school multiplication task cards has multiple levels of your multiplication within 100 practice covered. 

Includes multiplication models for groups of, repeated addition, bar diagrams, and arrays; fact fluency and word problems for all the multiplication facts within 100.

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 back to school modeling multiplication task cards

✅ 64 back to school multiplication facts task cards

✅ 36 back to school multiplication word problem task cards

All the back to school 3rd grade multiplication task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these 3rd grade multiplication skills:

• groups of

• repeated addition

• bar diagrams

• arrays

• fact fluency for factors 1-10

• multiplication word problems for factors 1-10

How to prepare the back to school 3rd grade multiplication task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Back to school 3rd grade multiplication task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

3rd Grade Multiplication - Math Facts Games, Practice Worksheets & Activities

3rd Grade Math Anchor Charts + Interactive Math Notebook - All Year Visual Tool
3rd Grade Math MEGA BUNDLE Digital Lessons, Practice Activities, & Review Slides

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Permission granted to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.