7th Grade Back to School Cultural Activities

Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play numbers bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes the numbers in Spanish from 0-39 in number and numeral form. This awesome Bingo game includes all 40 numbers (in number and word form) on 32 different game boards (both color and black-and-white versions are included for each for a total of 128 boards).

This bingo game goes great with my Yo tengo, ¿Quién tiene...? game for numbers.

© 2019 Rachel Bailey (La Señorita Creativa®) All Rights Reserved

Holiday Word Search: Labor Day(Color and Black Line)

Teaching World Holiday through fun activities. Students will have a great time searching for the 35 hidden words. Great worksheet for Labor Day or any time of the year. Prep Free Engaging Worksheet! Independent! Grade 1-12!

Components:

- 1 Word Search in ink

- 1 Word Search in color

- 1 Word Search Solution in ink

- 1 Word Search Solution in color

“Holiday Word Search: Labor Day” Word List:

ACHIEVEMENT, AMERICAN, BATTLE, BOYCOTT, CONDITION, CONTRIBUTION, ECONOMIC, DEMAND, DEMOCRACY, EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEE, FIREWORK, HOLIDAY, LABOR DAY, MOVEMENT, LAW, MONDAY, PARADE, PROPERTY, PROTECT, POLITICAL, RALLY, RIGHT, RIOT, SEPTEMBER, SOCIAL, SPEECH, STRENGTH, STRIKE, TRIBUTE, UNION, WAGE, WELL BEING, WORKER, PETER MCGUIRE

This product is also inside the bundle Word Search: Holidays Around The World. Save $$$s when you buy in bundles!

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Click a link below to see my other Word Search Lessons:

Science:

Science Word Search: Plant Unit

Science Word Search: Apples

Science Word Search: Corn

Science Word Search: Flowers

Science Word Search: Fruit

Science Word Search: Pumpkins

Science Word Search: Seeds & Plants

Science Word Search: Trees

Science Word Search: Vegetable

Science Word Search: Animal Unit

Science Word Search: Animal Facts

Science Word Search: Amphibian Facts

Science Word Search: Arachnid Facts

Science Word Search: Bird Facts

Science Word Search: Fish Facts

Science Word Search: Insect Mini Bundle

Science Word Search: Insect Facts

Science Word Search: Insect Names

Science Word Search: Bees

Science Word Search: Butterflies

Science Word Search: Ladybugs

Science Word Search: Mammal Facts

Science Word Search: Bats

Science Word Search: Horse

Science Word Search: Whales

Science Word Search: Wolf

Science Word Search: Reptile Facts

Science Word Search: Environment Unit

Science Word Search: Environment

Science Word Search: Caves

Science Word Search: Coral Reef

Science Word Search: Desert

Science Word Search: Marshes & Swamps

Science Word Search: Rain Forest

Science Word Search: Recycle

Science Word Search: Weather Unit

Science Word Search: Hurricanes

Science Word Search: Rain

Science Word Search: Snow

Science Word Search: Tornadoes

Science Word Search: Water Cycle

Science Word Search: Weather

Science Word Search: Seasons 5 in 1 Bundle

Science Word Search: Seasons Basic

Science Word Search: Spring

Science Word Search: Summer

Science Word Search: Autumn

Science Word Search: Winter

Science Word Search: Astronomy 5 in 1 Bundle

Science Word Search: Space

Science Word Search: Galaxies

Science Word Search: Solar System

Science Word Search: Moon

Science Word Search: Earth

Science Word Search: Matter & Energy

Science Word Search: States of Matter

Science Word Search: Health & Nutrition

Science Word Search: Coronavirus

Science Word Search: Simple Machines

Science Word Search: Light

Science Word Search: Sound

Holiday:

Word Search: Holidays Around The World

Holiday Word Search: Chinese New Year

Holiday Word Search: Christmas

Holiday Word Search: Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa Bundle

Holiday Word Search: Cinco de Mayo

Holiday Word Search: Columbus Day

Holiday Word Search: Diwali

Holiday Word Search: Election Day

Holiday Word Search: Earth Day

Holiday Word Search: Easter

Holiday Word Search: Halloween

Holiday Word Search: Hanukkah

Holiday Word Search: Independence Day

Holiday Word Search: Kwanzaa

Holiday Word Search: Labor Day

Holiday Word Search: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Holiday Word Search: Memorial Day

Holiday Word Search: Mother's Day

Holiday Word Search: Passover

Holiday Word Search: Presidents' Day

Holiday Word Search: Ramadan

Holiday Word Search: St. Patrick's Day

Holiday Word Search: Thanksgiving

Holiday Word Search: Valentine's Day

Holiday Word Search: Veterans Day

Back to School/Character Education:

Back to School Word Search: 4 in 1 Bundle

Word Search: Citizenship

Word Search: Personal Belongings

Word Search: People at School

Word Search: School Vocabularies

Character Education Word Search: Character Education 7 in 1

Character Education Word Search: Character Traits

Character Education Word Search: Cooperation

Character Education Word Search: Honesty

Character Education Word Search: Dealing with Anger

Character Education Word Search: Dealing with Bullying

Character Education Word Search: Dealing with Fighting

Character Education Word Search: Dealing with Teasing

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Back to School - All About Me Electric Guitar Craftivity. This printable is perfect for getting to know your students and making learning fun. Ideal for first week of school activities, icebreakers and creating a welcoming classroom environment. This interactive and creative craft activity allows your students to express themselves while showcasing their unique personalities. Your students decorate an electric guitar cover page, draw a self-portrait on the second template, and complete writing prompts on the third page, such as My goals for the year and My favorite animal is. They color, paste, and assemble the templates to create a personalized booklet. This product is designed to make the first days of school engaging and memorable. You can easily incorporate this activity into your lesson plans to help students share about themselves, build classroom community, and spark creativity.

This product includes:

• Colorful Banner: (Includes a vibrant banner spelling All About Me with guitars, perfect for bulletin board displays or showcasing your students work.)
• Cover page x 2, (Design your own electric guitar or coloring in template)
• Self portrait template,
• All About me template.

How to Use:

1. Color the Front Cover: Your students personalize the front cover.
2. Draw a Profile: On Template 2, your students draw a self-portrait.
3. Complete Writing Prompts: On Template 3, your students fill in prompts about themselves.
4. Cut and Glue: Finally, your students cut out their completed work and glue it together to form a cute booklet.

US & UK templates available

Enhance your classroom with this fun and interactive craftivity that students will enjoy and remember all year long.

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Do you need an engaging activity to support your classroom community? Are you struggling to find an activity that isn't boring?? Do you want your students to have fun? Then download this Gifted and Talented Back to School Getting to Know You Activity WebQuest!

This fun and engaging WebQuest is a unique twist on the typical getting to know you activity. It combines the two things teenagers love, using technology and talking about themselves! Students are provided with 15 prompts that they must first quickly research. Then based on what they find, they share something about themself with their partner. It's fun, interactive, and will get all kids feeling comfortable to share about themself. This WebQuest can be completed in pairs or in small groups.

➟ Examples:

• Students go to a history website (URL provided) and choose an era in which they would love to live. Then, they share this information with their partner.
• Students go to a website about names and choose their favorite name. Then, they share something about their own name.
• & 13 more fun, engaging, and unique prompts

➟ How this resource helps you:

• Students will be engaged
• NO PREP and very few resources needed (just a computer!)

➟ How you can use this resource:

• This can be completed in one full 45-minute class OR
• Students answer 1-2 questions daily for the first week or so of class to get to know one another OR
• Students answer 1-2 daily at the end of class

➟ This resource includes:

• 15 multi-part question WebQuest/scavenger hunt with relevant questions (The URLs provided in this WebQuest are not 'live.' They are kept very simple so that students can easily type the URLs in the search bar to hunt for their answers). Text boxes are all set, and ready to go!

• Instructions & Answer Key

• Live links are provided on the last page of the resource

• Terms of Use

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• Back to School Reflection Activity for Team Building and Discussion

Need a fun first week ESL ELL activity to get your secondary ELL students speaking and learning more about each other? This activity is FUN and helps students craft their responses with tons of language frames that get more complex as the slides go on!

This product includes:

• 20 slides to teach the activity and with FUN and engaging THIS OR THAT scenarios for students to discuss!
• Secondary themes and topics
• Different language frames that get more complex as the slides go on!
• A great chance to learn about your students and create a classroom community!
• Students will justify their answer

Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play alphabet bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes all the letters and digraphs from the bingo boards. This awesome Bingo game includes 28 classroom "survival" phrases on 32 different game boards (both color and black-and-white versions are included for a total of 64 boards).

This bingo game goes great with my Yo tengo, ¿Quién tiene...? game for classroom "survival" phrases.

© 2019 Rachel Bailey (La Señorita Creativa®) All Rights Reserved

Need a great ESL ELL lesson for your secondary Newcomers for the first week of back to school?! This printable PDF packet has everything you need to get to know your students, informally assess their abilities, and show them vocabulary!

This resource includes:

• 21 pages of prompts, organizers, writing and vocabulary for secondary Newcomers
• Info about students, their families, where they're from, interests, classes, passions, hobbies, school info, time in the US, languages they speak, special places to them and more!
• Learn their native language as they share their favorite word in their first language and tell you what it means in English
• Engaging and inclusive graphics and visuals for secondary students
• Everything you need for either warm-ups for the first two weeks of school OR for 3-5 full days of lessons
• 6 pages of vocabulary to help students write about their hobbies, dream jobs and their personalities
• A fun and engaging resource to get your secondary newcomer students talking and writing!

Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play vocab bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes all the vocabulary from the bingo boards. This awesome Bingo game includes 40 Spanish terms on 32 different game boards (both color and black-and-white versions are included for a total of 64 boards).

The terms represented include:

• 12 greetings and goodbyes
• 9 expressions of courtesy
• 12 basic questions and answers
• 7 miscellaneous terms (such as señorita, sí, mi mejor amigo/a, etc)

This bingo game goes great with my Yo tengo, ¿Quién tiene...? game for greetings.

© 2019 Rachel Bailey (La Señorita Creativa) All Rights Reserved

Need a fun first week ESL ELL activity to get your secondary Newcomer ELL students speaking and learning more about each other? This activity is FUN and helps students craft their responses with tons of language frames!

This product includes:

• 20 slides to teach the activity and with FUN and engaging THIS OR THAT scenarios for students to discuss!
• Secondary themes and topics
• Different language frames that get more complex as the slides go on!
• A great chance to learn about your students and create a classroom community!

Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play alphabet bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes all the letters and digraphs from the bingo boards. This awesome Bingo game includes all 26 letters of the alphabet, plus Ch, Ll, Ñ, and Rr on 32 different game boards (both color and black-and-white versions are included for a total of 64 boards).

This bingo game goes great with my Yo tengo, ¿Quién tiene...? game for the alphabet.

© 2019 Rachel Bailey (La Señorita Creativa®) All Rights Reserved

***Please watch the VIDEO PREVIEW to see everything that's included!***

This ESL ELD resource has everything your secondary Newcomer ELL students need to use their back to school vocabulary and hear new stories around the back to school August/September themes! This product is perfect for whole group, small group, or you can leave it with a sub because of all the supports! Your secondary multilingual students will love these engaging activities!

This product includes:

1. 10 pages of Listening and Speaking Activities
2. Tons of visuals and pre teach vocabulary supports
3. Themes: California Heat Wave, Teens & Sleep, Teens & Smartphones & Mexican Independence Day!
4. Language frames to support speaking discussions
5. Speaking task cards
6. 4 linked stories to listen to
7. High level thinking questions
8. A PDF Link if you would like to print the activity more easily

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Are you on the hunt for a back to school activity for your ESL Newcomer secondary students that jumpstarts the first week of school? This ESL ELL Back to School unit comes with fun games and TONS of vocabulary printables. 

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Learn about August and September holidays
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit has A LOT of ready to use activities for your students. You have the ability to start the school year off with engaging activities.

What’s Included:

• 55 Google Slides/Interactive Pear Deck slides 
• Engaging secondary topics and visuals 
• 4 embedded videos and response slides
• TONS of Back to School vocabulary (people at school, places, school items, activities and functions, classes at school, clothes, weather and more!)
• Holidays in August and September: Hispanic Heritage Month, Mexican Independence Day, 9/11 and Labor Day)
• TONS of Writing practice with sentence frames and vocabulary supports
• Speaking practice with language frames to facilitate conversations
• Assessment slides
• TONS of PDF printables---- (vocabulary pages and more)
• Classroom and School Scavenger Hunts!
• Games---I Have--Who has??
• Heads Up Game with card printables!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angela M. wrote, “This Back to School Pear Deck was awesome for my high school Beginner/Intermediate students! TONS of vocabulary and chances for them to write and speak! Loved all the PDFs this came with as well!”

Back to school does not mean you have to be stressed out about planning and creating resources. You can have the first week checked off for your students with this fun and engaging activities! You don’t want to miss out on these FUN activities. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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➡️ Bundle & SAVE - ESL Newcomer Bundle - Back to School

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Are you on the hunt for a back to school activity for your ESL Newcomer secondary students that jumpstarts the first week of school? This ESL ELL Back to School reading unit includes back to school themes and stories. Students will read about first day jitters, a crazy cafeteria food fight, a morning routine (with blank PDF for them to do theirs) & about Labor Day!

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit has A LOT of ready to use activities for your students. You have the ability to start the school year off with an engaging activity.

What’s Included:

• 4 Reading passages for Newcomers (Entering and Emerging levels)
• Engaging topics and themes for secondary students like a Cafeteria food fight (fiction), first day jitters (fiction), morning routine (infographic) and Labor Day (non fiction)
• QR codes to have passages, questions and vocabulary read ALOUD!
• Vocabulary work for each passage
• Pre-reading prediction and discussion questions for Speaking & Writing
• Reading comprehension questions
• Engaging visuals that celebrate diversity
• A GREAT lesson that is very structured and guided to leave for a SUB!!!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Justin H. wrote, “These were great reading passages for back to school. The QR codes were great to give me a break from reading aloud and the visuals were awesome.”

Back to school does not mean you have to be stressed out about planning and creating resources. You can have the first week checked off for your students with this fun and engaging activity! You don’t want to miss out on this EXCITING activity. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

➡️ Bundle & SAVE - ESL Newcomer Bundle - Back to School

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This is the perfect lesson for the first week of school! These secondary slides will help your students express themselves and show their interests and passions! Great for all secondary students!

What's included:

• 14 slides that are ready to go---they just need students to add their personal info and details!
• Slides about students' background, interests, dreams, passions, family, goals, dream trip, futures and more!
• Professional look for secondary classrooms
• Directions slide to support students doing this project independently
• Students can present to the class when done!

Are you on the hunt for a back to school activity for your ESL Newcomer secondary students that jumpstarts the first week of school? This ESL ELL Back to School writing resource is everything your secondary Newcomer (Entering and Emerging/Level 1 and 2) students need to improve their writing. Your students will love the engaging prompts and secondary visuals!

This unit focuses on getting your Newcomers writing using back to school vocabulary, including food, emotions, holidays, clothes, activities, and school. As a teacher, you will have the option of an editable Google Doc or using the PDF printable version.

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit has A LOT of ready to use activities for your students. You have the ability to start the school year off with an engaging activity.

What’s Included:

• An editable Google Doc
• 16 pages of writing activities
• Tons of practice with the Present Simple Tense
• Vocabulary visuals on each page for spring foods, clothes, holidays (Labor day, Hispanic Heritage Month, Mexican Independence Day & 9/11) activities
• Engaging secondary prompts and visuals
• Entering AND Emerging writing level scaffolds
• Language supports for each activity
• 5 Senses visuals
• 6 Writing Task Cards
• Vocabulary Print Page
• PDF Link to print

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Justin H. wrote, “I bought the Reading passages first then went back and bought these! What a great resource to have for all my different level Newcomers! Saved me a ton of time and these were great for the beginning of school. The writing supports helped even my super low writers!”

Back to school does not mean you have to be stressed out about planning and creating resources. You can have the first week checked off for your students with this fun and engaging activity! You don’t want to miss out on this EXCITING activity. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

➡️ Bundle & SAVE - ESL Newcomer Bundle - Back to School

Access Test Prep Mega Bundle