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Colorful or Colorable Cut Out Crowns for Grades 1-5 for the First Day!
Cut-out crown templates for celebrating the first day of school, labeled by grade level.
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Prepare for the new school year with communication templates, all-about-me pages and first-day crafts. Choose a format you can personalize for students or families.
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Back to School Candy Wrapper for Gift
Provide a printable craft template for students to make a personalized candy-bar gift wrapper as a back-to-school welcome activity.
All about me & goals
Back to School-First Day of School- Getting to know each other game
A one-page foldable dice/cube template for a getting-to-know-you game where students share preferences from six categories.
Meet the teacher & open house
Meet the Teacher Template | First Day of School Beginning of the Year
A fill-in template for a teacher to introduce themselves to students/families at the start of the school year (a 'meet the teacher' handout).
First-day crafts
Grades 1-5 Back-to-School Activity Color Your Own Cut Out Crowns!
A back-to-school craft activity where students color and cut out paper crowns to wear and celebrate the first day of school.
First-day crafts
First Day of School Handprint, Kindergarten Preschool Handprint Poem
A Canva-editable handprint craft template with an accompanying 'My First Day of School' poem, used as a first-day-of-school keepsake craft.
Editable
First-day crafts
What's in My School Bag? | Back to School Writing Prompts & Craft Acti
A back-to-school writing and craft activity where students write about the contents of their school bag and then color and assemble a backpack craft template.
Meet the teacher & open house
Meet the Teacher - Editable Template
An editable one-slide 'Meet the Teacher' template for teachers to introduce themselves to students and families at back-to-school time, open house, or the first day of school.
Editable
Meet the teacher & open house
Co-teaching - Meet the Teacher Template / Back to School / First Day
Blank 'meet the teacher' template for sharing basic personal information with students/families at the start of the school year.
First-day crafts
Back to School Glasses Craft | First Day of School Coloring & Wearable
a wearable paper-glasses craft for the first day of school, used as an icebreaker/classroom-community activity and coloring page
Meet the teacher & open house
Back to School-First Day of School- Parents' wishes for the new school
A template for parents to write wishes/messages for their child's new school year, to be shared and displayed in the classroom.
All about me & goals
ME Word Back to School Activity
A back-to-school 'All About Me' icebreaker activity where students fill in prompted sections to share personal interests, then cut out and display the results.
First-day crafts
School Bus Craft - Back to school craft
A cut-and-paste craft activity for young students to build their own school bus, for back-to-school/first-week-of-school use.
All about me & goals
We're Rocking In Our School Shoes - Editable Class Book
Class book template used at back-to-school time where each student contributes a page about themselves 'rocking in their school shoes.'
All about me & goals
All About Me And Riddles Worksheet
A beginning-of-year All About Me questionnaire paired with logic riddles for students to introduce themselves and practice critical thinking.
First-day crafts
Excite Students with DIY Kindergarten Crowns - Fun Back-to-School.
A set of printable, colorable/color paper crowns for first-day-of-school and grade-level celebrations, letting students wear a crown marking their grade or 'first day' milestone.
First-day crafts
First Day of Kindergarten & School Headbands - Hats- Crowns
Printable first-day-of-school hats/crowns for young students to wear and celebrate the occasion.
All about me & goals
School Times: First Day of School (Worksheet) (Front page)
Give students a creative-writing template to record and report on their first day(s) of school, formatted as a newspaper front page.
All about me & goals
Writing Banner Templates
Provides pennant/banner templates students fill in to summarize what they learned about a lesson or unit, or for beginning-of-year decoration.
All about me & goals
Back to School - About Me - MY FAVOURITES
Help students share personal favorites and reflect on the first day of school through a fill-in worksheet and a newspaper-style writing activity.
Writing & classroom planning
Back-to-School Writing Paper – Primary Templates
Select a layout for your writing task, using a picture-box page when students will illustrate their ideas. Provide your own prompt or use the paper for open-ended writing.
Meet the teacher & open house
Back to School Night Presentation
An editable Back to School Night presentation/handout template for teachers to introduce themselves and share classroom information with families.
Editable
Meet the teacher & open house
Back to School Flip Books
A back-to-school flip-book template (PowerPoint) for teachers to customize with student information, offered as a pre-made-labels version and a completely customizable version.
Editable
All about me & goals
Back to School - All About Me - Face Mask
A 'face mask' shaped All About Me template (created during the COVID-19/coronavirus period) for students to introduce themselves to classmates by filling in and drawing personal facts, provided in both British-spelling and American-spelling versions.